Small Collections Grant
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Saving the modern phanerogam collection of the MVM herbarium: processing and preserving specimen backlog of an important record of uruguayan flora.
Uruguay
Database, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
2000
MVM
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural
Objective:
The herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) house ca. 100.0000 specimens and has a minimum staff of one person with a maintenance budget limited to mounting materials and preserving supplies. In the last 10 years through several field trips around the country mainly directed to collect phanerogam specimens which redounded in ca. 2500 specimens’ backlog. These specimens were collected in high biodiversity threatened localities. The main objective is processing and digitizing this specimen’s backlog in order to make them available to the scientific community.
Timetable:
In order to achieve the different stages of the project it is planned to use a period of six month. During the first four months of the project the mounting face will be done, this includes all the processing of the specimens needed such as specimen and determinative labels creation. In the first month it will start the gathering of data from different sources to accomplish a complete data base in month six. In the fifth month the planning and design of a preservation system will be done and it implementation will start.
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:
At this moment the specimens are being stored dry in newspaper and are in minimal preservation conditions. As these are not treated they are in high risk if of damage by fungal and insect attack and could lead to total loss. Immediate curation is needed, so mounting and preserving of non-processed specimens is urgent. The specimens will be mounted following standard protocols. Specific mounting materials will be use: mounting sheets, specimen folders, acid free paper mounting tape to fasten specimens and water based glue. Specimen and determinative labels will be attached to every specimen. Data associated with the specimens of this collection have never been processed in order to obtain a complete database. Information is scattered among irregular labels in the specimens, field notebooks saved in the herbarium and some fragments of personal digital data bases made by botanist who collected the specimens. Based on this, all possible data associated with the collected samples will be gathered in a data base. This will serve to build a complete database with all the possible information associated with each specimen. The planning and design of a rotation system to preserve the material cold and performing disinfection periodically will be achieved. To complete all the stages of the project, it will be necessary to have human resources specifically dedicated to the task. All the mounting and preserving materials will be provided by the herbarium of the MNHN.
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Meica Valdivia
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