Small Collections Grant
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Digitalization of collections in the Herbarium SAF
Italy
Database
Cost (USD):
2000
SAF
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo
Objective:
The SAF Herbarium , recently funded, is mainly oriented towards the conservation of macrofungi of the Mediterranean Area and also hosts collections of vascular plants. Actually the herbarium hosts ca. 7000 specimens which are temporarely recorded on paper support. The proposal is to start the digitalization of herbarium samples in order to facilitate the access by academics and common citizens.
Timetable:
The deadline of this process is 12 months.
The training of the external personnel will be done in the first month. During months 2-12, the personnel of the Department in collaboration with the external unit will carry on the digitalization of herbarium labels.
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:
For the purpose given above we will buy a personal computer and the informatization will be carried out on a relational DB according to the TDWG standards in order to be ready to be included in larger systems (e.g. GBIF). The informatization process will be done in collaboration with an external personnel unit that will be granted and trained. A small amount of the funding requested will be used to buy Mounting papers.
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"Other" target:
Giuseppe Venturella
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