Small Collections Grant
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Revitalizing the Eastern Washington University Herbarium for Student Success
United States of America
Database, Digitally image, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
1983
EWU
Eastern Washington University
Objective:
Objectives: 1) Process backlog of approximately 1,500 specimens. 2) Digitize 1,500 specimens, with the ultimate goal of digitizing the entire collection to relevant online databases. 3) Create a website for the EWU Herbarium to facilitate communication, research, and specimen loans. 4) Create a CURE (Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience) module utilizing newly digitized specimens and implement into course curriculum. 5) Provide students with training in the herbarium to curate, digitize, and database specimens. 6) Publish a student-written article about EWU’s collections in Evansia.
Timetable:
Starting Date: April 1st, 2024
Ending Date: June 15, 2025
April 2024 - June 2024: Process backlog with the goal of accessioning 1,000 specimens. Purchase all supplies for the digitization station and set up the station. Test and refine digitization process to write detailed protocol.
July 2024 - August 2024: Accession 200 specimens, thus completing objective one. Digitize 200 specimens. Create a website for the EWU Herbarium, completing objective three.
September 2024 - December 2024: Digitize 800 specimens. Develop and publish the CURE module, completing objective four.
December 2024 - April 2025: Digitize 500 specimens, thus completing objective two. Write an announcement on the advancements in and current status of the EWU Herbarium. Submit the article to the journal Evansia, completing objective five.
April 2025 - May 2025: Students present poster at EWU Research and Creative Works Symposium, completing objective six.
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:
While many of the vascular plant collections are digitized, the cryptogam collections lack digital resources. We do not currently have a digitization station to address the gap in digital resources and establish a long-term digitization program. Funding is requested to: 1) purchase curation supplies to process a backlog of 1,500 specimens to increase accessibility of the specimens to faculty and students for teaching and research; 2) establish a digitization station as a student training opportunity and to increase specimen data accessibility to other researchers and institutions; and 3) database all current specimens and newly accessioned specimens. These improvements will enable us to use digitized data to develop a new CURE module that will be implemented into botany courses at EWU and publish on the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) platform for online distribution; create a website to facilitate communication between community members and researchers who are interested in EWU’s collections; and provide students with herbarium curation training and professional development opportunities via publishing a paper and giving a symposium presentation on the collection.
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Jessica Allen
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