Small Collections Grant
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Digitization of Herbarium of Ivo and Marija Horvat (ZAHO), Croatia
Croatia
Database, Digitally image
Cost (USD):
2000
ZAHO
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology
Objective:
One of small but important collections hosting valuable material from species rich Balkan Peninsula is Herbarium of Ivo and Marija Horvat (ZAHO) located at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. It stores approximately 70 000 specimens collected by Ivo Horvat throughout the Balkans. It also includes type specimens as Horvat described several new species. As the material is not frequently used in research, the main objective of the project is to database and digitize herbarium specimens, thus making them freely available for research worldwide.
Timetable:
The project will start in April 2020 and finish by December 2020. The potential employee on the project will be chosen among interested biology students with some prior knowledge in systematic botany and nomenclature in order to facilitate accurate workflow. As the work will be done by a student, a maximal 20 hours per week is proposed. The workload will be divided in two parts, from April to June 2020, and from September to December 2020, in accordance with student’s semester activities and herbarium staff responsibilities during vegetation season (July to August 2020). Herbarium curators will supervise all work and will conduct the final check of all processed herbarium specimens.
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 digitization of ZAHO started in 2014. The systematisation and digitization is done through a national botanical database, Flora Croatica Database (https://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd). Moreover, all processed specimens are freely available through the Herbarium Croaticum web portal (http://herbariumcroaticum.biol.pmf.hr). The systematisation starts with the transcription of metadata found on herbarium label, followed by georeferencing of collection localities. Then a digital image is taken with the help of an upside-down A3 scanner, Epson Expression 11000XL. We have all necessary equipment and thus far 4564 specimens have been databased and 1227 of them are digitized. Within the project we plan to employ a biology student to accelerate digitization efforts. The work on digitization pipeline will include: 1) mounting of herbarium specimens, 2) data management (transcribing the herbarium labels, storing metadata into publicly accessible database, georeferencing localities from herbarium labels) and 3) scanning of the herbarium specimens. As an added project value, we plan to additionally publish digitized specimens in GBIF database thus providing visibility and enhancing usage of the collection. The project outcome will include: 1) several thousands of digitized herbarium specimens stored in three freely accessible database with all specimen metadata and images, 2) the involved biology student receiving training in specimen preparation, digitization procedure and collections care.
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Ivana Rešetnik
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