JACQ was started in 2000 at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research. In 2004 the NHM Vienna joined the system. The focus was initially on herbaria, since 2014 the plant collections of the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna have also been recorded. The plant stock of the federal gardens of Schönbrunn is now also imported into the JACQ system. This means a fundamental modernization and at the same time the collections are integrated into modern knowledge networks (e.g. Europeana, GBIF, ACDH etc.) [read more]