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Small Collections Grant

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Digitization and public availability of the Herbarium Irina Delanova de Gemtchujnicov (BOTU)

ana.fortuna@unesp.br

Brazil

Database, Digitally image, Conserve

Cost (USD): 

2000

BOTU

São Paulo State University (UNESP, Botucatu)

Objective:

The objectives of this project are:
1. Increase the publicly available images of the herbarium specimens at the platform specieslink (https://specieslink.net/search/);
2. Capture 4.000 or more high resolution images of the herbarium, including types.

Timetable:

Based on the in progress work, with the available structure it is possible to digitize about 350 specimens per year, including the curation of the sample information and physical integrity. Thus, in 12 months we aim to have 4.000 or more samples with images available. The timescale to complete this proposal is divided into five main tasks:
1. Type collection: month 1-2;
2. Erythroxylaceae - target 1 (half of the collection): month 2-4;
3. Erythroxylaceae - target 2 (the other half the collection): month 4-6;
4. Local flora - target 1 (the first 500 sample images): month 6-9;
5. Local flora - target 2 (the second 500 batch of images): month 9-12.

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.

  • 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)

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  • 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)

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  • 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

Proposal

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Plan:

The herbarium BOTU comprises more than 30.000 samples, with all their data publicly available at the platform speciesLink. However, only about 20% of the collection is digitalized. For the type collection, there is no image available online. The herbarium BOTU is one of the top ten herbariums of the São Paulo state, in Brazil, and represents the most representative collection of the central-west of the State. Most of the collection is composed by samples from the biodiversity hotspots Cerrado and Atlantic Forest, with records from extinct fragments of those in the central-western São Paulo. The three largest collections are for the families Fabaceae, Asteraceae, and Erythroxylaceae, respectively. For Erythroxylaceae, the collection is one of the richest for the family, representing a reference collection nationally and internationally. Because of this, the aim is to digitalize the Erythroxylaceae collection completely (2.353 samples), plus all the type samples and specimens from the extinct Cerrado from the region (ca. 1.000 samples), in 12 months. The digitalization of the BOTU was contemplated recently by the Brazilian Funding Agency Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, and the digitization is already in progress. Because most of the digitalization is realized by students, it is important to hire more people to increase the speed of the process. Thus, this funding is crucial for supporting the labor cost to achieve the digitalization of 4.000 samples or more.

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"Other" target:

Ana Paula Fortuna Perez

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