Small Collections Grant
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Improvement the lichen collection from LUTI herbaria
Argentina
Database, Digitally image, Process backlog, Ship, Other
Cost (USD):
2000
LUTI
Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET-UNC) and Centro de Ecología y Recursos Naturales Renovables (FCEFyN - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Objective:
Make available the lichen collection on biodiversity database and the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria through the digitalization, inventory and catalogue.
Create an image bank for the type material and the most relevant collection
Improve the technical capabilities of the LUTI herbaria for the general curation of the collection (assembly, preservation, cataloging and digitization).
Training students in scientific collection management activities
Collaborate in the identification of specimens and the restoration and valorization of historical collections housed in other herbaria
Timetable:
Based on six months project.
Process backlog specimens: 1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° months
Data uploaded: 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° months
Creation of an image bank 3° 4° 5° 6° months
Training students 1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° months
Collaboration with historical lichen collections. 1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° months
Share duplicate specimens 1° 2° 3° 4° 5° 6° months
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
2024
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Plan:
Our collection data is uploaded to the Lichen Consortium (https://lichenportal.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=145) and is currently being curated for migration to GBIF. We will continue with the uploading of new specimens, until we reach the totality of the digitized collection.
Also we will create an image bank for the type material and those specimens that are less frequent in the collection. Such images can be shared openly on biological data portals and consortia. For lichens it is necessary a digital cam better than a scanner since the specimens, in general, have more volume than vascular plants due to the presence of the substrate or the growth form.
We will finance 4 internships for biology students, who will join to the work team. The trainees will be trained to collaborate in the different activities (process backlog specimens, digitized metadata, prepare duplicate specimens, etc.) and thus accelerate the tasks of labeling, conditioning and general maintenance of the specimens, as well as the loading of metadata into the database.
The LUTI herbaria has the potential to grow as a result of the research that continues to be carried out and the collaboration with different groups in Argentina and other collections without lichens specialists. Taking into account, we will collaborate with other collections through the exchange of duplicates, especially with those that have old collections and need to be identified for their valorization.
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Collaborate in the identification of specimens and the restoration and valorization of historical collections
"Other" target:
Juan Manuel Rodriguez
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