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Small Collections Grant

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Backlog processing, digitizing and publishing historical and recently acquired specimens from the Atacama Desert in the AGUCH herbarium

fluebert@u.uchile.cl

Chile

Database, Process backlog

Cost (USD): 

3000

AGUCH

Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile

Objective:

1. Process backlog specimens from the Atacama Desert that have arrived at the herbarium AGUCH
during the last five years.
2. Digitize 1,000 specimens with a Darwin Core standard.
3. Update the dataset of the AGUCH herbarium on GBIF by including all the specimens digitized
during the past two years.

Timetable:

We expect to complete the work in the course of four months, which includes specimen mounting,
digitizing and publication in GBIF, temporally organized as follows:

Collecting and storing specimens: Month 1-3
Digitizing specimens: : Month 2-4
Data publication in GBIF: Month 4

Scoring Rubric

Reviewer's name:

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.

  • 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.

  • Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.

  • The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.

This proposal scores:

/40

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Year of last successful SCG application:

Has applicant applied for SCG before?:

No

Plan:

The expected amount of specimens to be mounted is 1,000, of which nearly half of them
(440) need to be newly digitized to be included in the database. The remaining specimens have a
database and only need to be converted to our standard. Considering the specimens that have been
previously processed and databased during the previous years, the total amount of specimens to be
newly submitted to GBIF is 2,500. The GIBIF dataset update will increase the number of specimens
of the AGUCH herbarium in GBIF from 13,623 to over 16,000. As these specimens will be
available to the general public, including researchers, government institutions, NGOs, and decision-
makers, this constitute an important outreach activity of the AGUCH herbarium. We have mounting
materials (glue, adhesive tape, etc.), though mounting paper needs to be acquired. The bulk of the
budget will be spent in part-time personnel (one person), for which we already have qualified
alumni candidates who do not need to be trained nor introduced into the procedures of the
herbarium. This will be done with the help of student volunteers who will be introduced in the
botanical world and trained in herbarium procedures.

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"Other" target:

Federico

Luebert

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