Small Collections Grant
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scanning barcodes for collection management of the National Herbarium of Gabon
Gabon
Database
Cost (USD):
2000
LBV
Herbier National du Gabon (IPHAMETRA-CENAREST)
Objective:
The National Herbarium of Gabon houses more than 70000 specimens. This results to the collecting efforts of Gabonese botanists as well as other botanists around the world, especially from Netherlands, Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. However, with a continuous collection size enlargement, some collections are still kept with no curation, that is not digitalised (labelled, mounted, use of barcodes, and not listed in any database). The present project aims to associate barcodes to those collections.
Timetable:
Year 2020
Trimester 2
Sorting out specimens
Trimester 3 & 4
Scanning barcodes
Year 2021
Trimester 1
Scanning barcodes
Trimester 2, 3 & 4
Uploading barcodes
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:
A project on the digitization of the herbarium collections is currently being carried out at the LBV herbarium. This project began in 2018 and ends in 2020. It consists of mounting 10000 specimens. Unfortunately, these specimens did not receive barcodes. Therefore, by this project, some barcodes will be pasted and indexed in the BRAHMS database used at the National Herbarium of Gabon. Planned activities will be as follow:
• Sorting out the recently mounting herbarium specimens
• Barcode labels and scanner purchase
• Scanning and uploading barcodes using BRAHMS software
The expected result is to scan about 10000 barcodes. Most collection consists of duplicate specimens from international herbaria such as BR, BRLU, MO and WAG-Naturalis. The barcodes scanning will be achieved using the BRAHMS software developed by Oxford University and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands (WAG-Naturalis) to which the LVB herbarium is associated.
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Pulcherie Bissiengou
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