Small Collections Grant
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Store the information of the herbarium specimens "Walter L. Meagher" in a database that includes a faster and more efficient consultation system
Mexico
Database, Digitally image, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
1849
WLM
Botanical Garden El Charco del Ingenio
Objective:
Generate a database of rapid consultation of the information stored in the herbarium "Walter L. Meagher" of the botanical garden of "El Charco" San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato.
Migrate the excel format to a file maker database to a fast and accurate query database.
Digitize 50% of the "Walter L. Meagher" herbarium collection by 2020.
Increase the collection of plants from the arid and semiarid areas of the Mexican Bajío in the herbarium of the botanical garden of "El charco" in San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato.
Timetable:
Activities Month
Purchase of the file marker database license March
Adjustments to the herbarium database April
Perform the necessary tests for the database May
Excel import to the new database June
Collect the northern part of the state of Guanajuato as a botanical interest site July
Beginning of herbarium digitalization August, september, October, November
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:
The establishment of a database in file maker will allow a better organization for the use of the herbarium “Walter L. Meagher”, the information of each collection can be stored, processed and available to other institutions, in the same way it will be linked to the databases of the world's leading herbalists in order to consult the taxonomic update of the plant groups. This database format can be imported and exported in Excel format so that the amount of information of these years can be incorporated into the new file maker database, allowing a quick and accurate capture of field specimens, georeferences which will be linked to the cartography and the printing of the labels of the collected copies. All the information stored will allow to generate sustenance and support in the conservation activities of the Mexican flora that the botanical garden has undertaken for 25 years, this information will be the basis for floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical research, and that in turn give coherence to the dissemination of the collection of the same botanical garden.
This database format will facilitate, to know the number of collectors, the collection sites through a link with the cartography, the amount of duplicates, generate priority collection sites, decision making for the conservation of the native flora of the arid and semi-arid areas of Mexico, where a large number of species exclusive to Mexican biota develop and many of them threatened by various anthropogenic issues.
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"Other" target:
José Viccon Esquivel
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