Small Collections Grant
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Improvements of conservation and accessibility of the Herbarium ABGI collection
Russian Federation
Digitally image, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
ABGI
Amur Branch of Botanical Garden-Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Objective:
The Herbarium ABGI has about 20 thousand specimens of vascular plants. The Herbarium is formed from plants, collected mainly in natural populations of Amur Oblast (Province), often from remote areas. Рlant species from different botanical and geographical areas in the vicinity of Amur Oblast (Eastern Siberia, Manchuria, Dauria, and Okhotia ) are present on its territory. Many of these are located at the border of their habitats. The objective of the project is providing a safe and secure environment for each specimen of the Herbarium collection ABGI.
Timetable:
Procurement of herbarium cabinets - April 2020
Placing herbarium specimens in cabinets - April 2020
Procurement of materials for specimen mounting - April 2020
Mounting herbarium specimens - April-November 2020
Digitization of herbarium specimens - May-November 2020
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 collection should be stored in metal cabinets to best protect the plant specimens from light, dust and insects, however currently only a part of the Herbarium ABGI is housed in such cabinets. To improve storage conditions of the rest of the collection it is necessary to purchase 9 additional herbarium cabinets. To preserve physical integrity and provide structural support during digitization specimens must be mounted onto herbarium sheets. Only about 30% of Herbarium ABGI collection specimens are mounted and digitized, funding will allow mounting and digitizing 3500 specimens raising that ratio to about 50%. Digital copies of the images of these samples are uploaded to the virtual herbarium of the BGI FEB RAS (VBGI) (http://botsad.ru/herbarium). Digital imaging provides the accessibility of the herbarium collection ABGI for users on global scale.
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VOROBYEVA Anna
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