Small Collections Grant
This page is used to provide assessment scores for each grant application assigned to you. Please use the rubric below the grant details to enter your assessment scores and any notes you wish to include.
Please note that all scores entered must be whole numbers (no decimals), or you will be unable to save this form.
Specimen backlog digitization and processing in the DE herbarium
Hungary
Database, Digitally image, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
2000
DE
University of Debrecen, Department of Botany
Objective:
The DE collection consists of approximately 90.000 specimens. Tens of thousands of specimens (collected before 2014) have been digitized and databased (https://bit.ly/2s0KjjM ; https://bit.ly/2rbsQoW). However, thousands of our recently collected items remained unprocessed. Now, we plan the complete processing (i.e. mounting, labelling, scanning, databasing) of specimens from our backlog and the incorporation of these materials to the main collection of DE.
Timetable:
2020 March-April: preliminary survey of the backlog materials
2020 May-July: mounting, labelling, numbering and arrangement of the specimens
2020 September: scanning the specimens
2020 October: decontamination and incorporation of the specimens in the collection
2020 November-December: incorporation of the metadata in the database of DE (incl. joining the scanned image file names and the database records)
Scoring Rubric
Reviewer's name:
Collection Improvement (max. 120 points)
-
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.
-
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.
-
Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.
-
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.
-
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)
-
Match between the proposed budget and methods for the aims described – up to 10 points.
-
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.
-
Sharing duplicate specimens with other herbaria – up to 10 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
Broader Impacts (max. 40 points)
-
Degree of regional importance of the collection or the taxonomic importance of the targeted collection – up to 10 points.
-
The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.
-
The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
Year of last successful SCG application:
Has applicant applied for SCG before?:
Plan:
How do you plan to meet these objective/s? (1500 characters)
The workflow will be controlled by the applicant. The tasks will be completed by students and trainees.
0) Preliminary survey of the backlog materials. Determination, taxonomical revision, nomenclatural correction (if necessary).
1) Dry plants – currently stored between newspaper – are placed on sheets. Folding paper bags (capsules) for crashed, falling fragments (petals, seeds, fruits etc.) and small plant individuals.
2) Mounting the plants (and capsules) on the sheets with waxed paper straps.
3) Collection data entry from the field note labels to MS Excel spreadsheet. Editing, printing and mounting the corresponding labels on the sheets.
4) Numbering and arrangement the sheets based on the reference taxon list (Jávorka S. (1925): Flora Hungarica).
5) Imaging the sheets, with overhead scanner.
6) Decontamination of the specimens (deep freezing).
7) Incorporating the specimens in the main collection.
8) Incorporating the metadata in the database of DE collection. Joining the scanned image file names and the database (spreadsheet) records.
Institution:
IH Code:
Country:
Target areas:
Applicant First Name/s:
email:
"Other" target:
Attila Takács
Applicant Last Name/s: