Small Collections Grant
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Improvement of the storage infrastructure and physical collection of vascular plants from “Reinaldo Espinosa” Herbarium (Loja – Ecuador)
Ecuador
Database, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
LOJA
Universidad Nacional de Loja
Objective:
• To improve the shelves that contain the collection of vascular plants from “Reinaldo Espinosa” herbarium.
• To catalogue the physical collection of vascular plants from “Reinaldo Espinosa” herbarium.
Timetable:
Change of doorknobs and door handles: May to July
Creation of catalogue numbers: May to January 2025
Creation of tags for the folders: May to October
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:
“Reinaldo Espinosa” herbarium is one of the oldest in Ecuador. It was founded by the botanist Reinaldo Espinosa in 1946 and currently has 43 706 colections. However, as time goes by, the wooden shelves that contain the collection has become deteriorated; finding broken or inexistent door handles and destroyed latches and doorknobs. Overall, these damages hamper the efficient and secure access to the collection. Moreover, such deteriorations cause the collections to be left exposed to dust and plagues. For this reason, the improvement plan consists of replacing the doorknobs, door handles and latches for new and better ones. This is done with the aim to give a better and safe access to whom needs to use the collection. Besides, we consider that these improvements will appropriately safeguard the collection, thus stretching the lifespan of the shelves. In like manner, we are looking for the enhancement of our service with the cataloguing of all the physical collection. The vouchers do not contain a specified number of catalogues which is an inconvenience when providing such information to investigators who need them. Additionally, most of the folders that contain the vouchers do not feature a formal tag with information of the specimen. Hence, we are looking to formally design a catalogue number to the vouchers via a barcode and, to properly name the folders with printed adhesive tags with the aim to have a well-organized physical and digital collection.
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Zhofre Huberto Aguirre Mendoza
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