Small Collections Grant
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Digitization of the Adriatic coastline plants in the Herbarium BUNS
Serbia
Database, Digitally image, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
BUNS
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences
Objective:
Herbarium BUNS is established in 1947th. During the first few decades, herbarium staff visited various sites along the Adriatic coast, which has undergone major changes since then, such as road constructions, expansion of touristic zone, and consequently some of these localities and/or habitats from which plants originate are irretrievably lost. Processing and digitization of the BUNS collection will reveal historical floristic data, of local and regional significance. Also, a part of the collection, which has been neglected for decades and thus inaccessible for research, will be rearranged.
Timetable:
At the start of the project it is mandatory to conduct the public procurement for the essential work equipment, and to provide necessary documentation and technical specification in order to support and ultimately store data in the online repository. Based on our previous experience, it is necessary to provide three months for the complete realization of these activities. The period of realization of this part of the project is April - June 2022.
After fulfilling the previously mentioned activities, the process of exsiccates conservation and data-basing will begin. At this stage, each exsiccate with appropriate label will be organized in mounting envelops which will get unique identification numbers. After that, all provisional data and assigned numbers will be incorporated in database. Taking into account that the processing of nearly 9.000 exsiccates is planned, two months are planned for the realization of activities for this period (July-August).
The material prepared in this way will be photo-documented and linked with the database in September.
Thus, from April to September 2022, the project will be realized.
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:
Herbarium BUNS has undergone arrangement of the archive space, and collection is organized in sub-collections, with nearly 9000 exsiccates collected in Adriatic coast from the north to the south (Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro). This gained insight into the existence of material of international significance. This first step, enabled the planning of future activities.
In order to digitize this collection, it is necessary to meet certain conditions:
1) Provide digitization equipment, consisting of a digitization stand and a corresponding lens (the camera already exists),
2) Provide a repository for data (database and digital files of herbarium specimens), i.e. an online portal for the availability of data to researchers after the implemented project,
3) Process the collection – i.e. preserve and label the material, where no determination of the material has been made if it is possible to determine or revise the identification; material determination is not a priority in the project because the further goal is to motivate experts to determine and revise the material
4) Digital imaging of specimens (photo-documented)
5) Data-basing and storage in online repository.
In order to implement the envisaged proposal, one senior associate of the herbarium, who is familiar with the historical concept of the collection, and the general herbarium arrangement, plus two associates, will be engaged.
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