Small Collections Grant
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Improvement of the condition of the historical herbarium collections of the DSU herbarium and their digitization
Ukraine
Digitally image, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
2000
DSU
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Objective:
The herbarium DSU was founded in 1918 and is the basic collection for the flora of Ukraine. It contains more than 100,000 herbarium sheets, including collections of famous florists, collections from of Eastern Europe: the herbarium of I. Akinfiev, which received a large silver medal at the world exhibition in Paris (1900), the herbarium of the author of "Flora of the Caucasus" O. Grossheim, typical specimens of Poaceae of Y. Prokudin.
Now, due to the difficult wartime, there is a problem with staff and materials. The goal of this project is to restore collections and digitize them.
Timetable:
Viewing and sorting the herbarium of historical collections - 10 working days (0.5 months).
Revision of the herbarium of the steppe zone of Ukraine and selection of herbarium for new named collections - 20 working days (1 month).
Repair and installation of the herbarium of historical collections - 20 working days (1 month).
Numbering of herbarium specimens and updating of herbarium labels - 10 working days (0.5 months).
Digitization and creation of databases - 60 working days (3 months).
Scoring Rubric
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Collection Improvement (max. 120 points)
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Facilitating access to the physical collections by digitization (e.g., data entry, setting up database structure with an outline of the platform to be used, purchasing equipment, and imaging specimens) – up to 30 points.
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Enhancing physical collections by improving the conservation status of specimens in the herbarium (e.g., better folders, protecting covers, mounting paper, labeling, etc.) – up to 30 points.
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Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.
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Increasing our understanding of the flora or funga by making new herbarium specimens available, such as processing of backlog or collecting and mounting of new specimens from understudied sites – up to 20 points.
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Securing collections by distribution of duplicates (or orphan collections) to other regional or international herbaria or shipping endangered collections to another herbarium – up to 20 points.
This proposal scores:
/120
Methods & Funding (max. 40 points)
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Match between the proposed budget and methods for the aims described – up to 10 points.
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Perceived need, the extent to which the project will benefit from IAPT funding: e.g., due to active floristic work or contribution to poorly collected sites, due to threatened conditions of collections, and for the degree of involvement of others (outreach and education). We give more points for herbaria in low- and middle-income countries – up to 20 points.
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Sharing duplicate specimens with other herbaria – up to 10 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
Broader Impacts (max. 40 points)
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Degree of regional importance of the collection or the taxonomic importance of the targeted collection – up to 10 points.
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The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.
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The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
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Plan:
1. Restoration of historical collections.
The DSU herbarium includes historically valuable collections - 1) herbarium of I. Akinfiev (7800); 2) herbarium of Academician O. Grossheim (5600); 3) herbarium "Flora of Russia"/"Flora Rossica" (1000); 4) herbarium of Professor Y. Prokudin (1000).
Each of them requires processing, which can be divided into stages:
- reviewing and sorting samples;
- repair and mounting of samples (if necessary);
- numbering of samples;
- updating the herbarium label of the sample (if necessary);
- digitization of samples;
- creation of databases.
2. Separation of named historical collections.
One of the constituent funds of DSU is the herbarium of the steppe zone of Ukraine, which has approximately 67,000 herbarium sheets. It includes the collections of well-known florist scientists and geobotanists O.L. Belgard and V.V. Tarasov, who worked at the Dnipro National University in the last century. Therefore, we consider it appropriate to single out the named collections of these researchers as part of the DSU. The stages of work will be the same, only first you will need to review a large number of available samples and select sheets for named collections from them.
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