Small Collections Grant
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Mosses of Siberia
Russia
Database, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
2000
NSK
Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Objective:
To structure and expand the collection of Siberian mosses in NSK, to make the material available for botanic-geographical analysis.
Timetable:
The designated grant is sufficient to organize additional workplace and to pay for the assistant 20-hours a week for 8 months. For 8 months with the helping it is possible to check, label and database about 2500-3000 samples from the archive disordered collections from mountains of South Siberia with the placement of the labels information into GBIF.
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 collection includes about 25,000 samples, but labels of only 8063 samples are registered in my table-database and ~ 6000 from them are available as a part of online-DB in Arctoa-site (http://arctoa.ru/Flora/basa.php). The rest of the collection is heterogeneous, there are: *identified and labelled samples that require entering into the DB and inseration; *identified samples that need labelling and digitizing; *non-identified samples from different regions. Also there are some boxes with identified but disordered samples collected by A. N. Vasiliev, I. M. Krasnoborov, A.V. Kuminova and other Siberian botanists in 1940-1990. I am organizing my own materials, but alone I don't have the ability to organize all the existing collections. It is necessary to delegate to the assistant the work on the labelling samples, sorting and entering into the DB. And there is a person which is able to do the work, but there are no vacancies in the Institute. Also it is needed to organize additional working place for entering information into the DB, printing of labels and wrapping of the samples. Then I can devote the time I have left to treating of undefined collections. In the Botanical Garden there is a GBIF- access point; so there is a possibility make the data available in GBIF.
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"Other" target:
Olga Pisarenko
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