Small Collections Grant
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Digitization of the Warren Wilson College Herbarium
USA
Digitally image, Other
Cost (USD):
2000
WWC
Warren Wilson College's Herbarium
Objective:
Our objectives are: (a) to acquire and set up the equipment for capturing digital images of WWC’s herbarium specimens, and (b) to train students and staff in digitization techniques and begin the process of digitizing our collection and adding images to our entries in the SERNEC database.
Timetable:
Our timeline is based on estimates and information from Harris & Marisco (2017). The acquisition, set-up and training would be complete by December 2020. We estimate that digitizing the entire collection would take approximately 2 years of student labor and could be completed by December 2022.
Spring 2020: Purchase equipment and set up digital imaging system
Summer 2020: Training of staff/faculty on digitization techniques; apply for matching funds through the Work College Consortium
Fall 2020: Training of student workers on digitization techniques; begin capturing and uploading digital images to the SERNEC database
December 2022: Goal date for completion of collection digitization
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:
We are currently in the process of adding our collection to the online database of the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC), which will make our collection much more accessible and usable not only for students and faculty at our institution but make the collection data accessible globally. We would very much like to include digital images to our collection data, as digital images make it possible to gather data from the collection remotely, but the equipment needed for this project is beyond our institution’s meager resources. My students and I have used specimen images available online from other herbaria for numerous research projects, and wish to be able to contribute to this network of available digital specimen data buy digitizing our own herbarium.
I will purchase the equipment and set up the digitization station in a small research lab next to our herbarium. I will train and supervise an existing staff member and team of student workers who are already in charge of entering specimen data into the SERNEC database. This team will do most of the imaging and digitization of specimens and upload them to our SERNEC database.
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"Other" target:
Amy E. Boyd
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