An archive of the published photographs of diatoms

Abstract

An information system designed for the remote work with digital images of diatoms is described in the paper. Photographs of diatoms published in scientific articles were used as data. During taxonomic identification, hydrobiologists often refer to such publications to compare the studied organism with the typical representatives of genera or species. The created information system “Arkhip” (3d-microalgae.org/arxip) allows to index and consolidate the information about the published photos in a single database, which will help to speed up the identification of diatom species.