Small Collections Grant
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Digitalization of MPUC plant collection: a small South Brazilian Herbarium
Brazil
Digitally image
Cost (USD):
2000
MPUC
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Objective:
MPUC Herbarium is linked to Science and Technology Museum at PUCRS and has a collection with approximately 22.000 specimens. Our collection is totally available on line, but still not digitalized. As a small collection, we believe that digitalization is crucial to be more accessible to the researchers and the general public. In this sense, our goal is to digitalize the collection since we already have a platform to make them available, the ‘speciesLink’ Network (splink.org.br) which we joined in 2013.
Timetable:
For the training, including the preparation of the station and the decision of the work flux, we estimated the first two months (January and February 2021). In the subsequent months (March to December 2021) the specimens will be checked, fixed up and digitalized. As mentioned earlier, we estimate that this process can be complete for 1200 specimens per month, leading to an estimative of 14400 specimens digitalized at the end of 2021.
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:
The first step is to prepare the station to the digitalization and perform a training to decide the best flux of the activities. The digitalization per se may not take so long, but frequently the specimens need some kind of reparation or conference that can be time consuming. As such, it is necessary to test if is better to check all the specimens first or, if the inconsistencies are eventual, only when is needed. Probably, if much reparation is need, one person will concentrate in that while other will operate the digitalization. We intend to begin with a technician that can dedicate two days in the collection and also can allocate a biologist student that has a scholarship to work 20 hours per week. Our collection are composed in the majority of angiosperms and are organize in an alphabetical order of the families (following APG 2016). We employ the software Specify to organize all the information and can extract data also organized by family. So, we will extract the reports of families, and first perform the checking phase, when the person will compare this report to the physical collection. All the material found, will perform the checking of the specimens condition and then get to the last phase of digitalization. We estimated that, after trained, would be reasonable to digitalize 60 specimens in half a day, leading to 300 specimens per week and 1200 per month, approximately. Fortunately, we should be able to do more than a half of the collection in a year of work.
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Cristiane Follmann Jurinitz
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