Small Collections Grant
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Strengthening the database of the UNR Herbarium collection
Argentina
Database, Digitally image
Cost (USD):
2000
UNR
IICAR-CONICET. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, UNR.
Objective:
. Enhance the quality of digitized data to align with international standards and ensure public accessibility.
. Implement and develop the current digitized database, creating new data and making it publicly available.
. Upgrade technical resources to enhance storage, loading, maintenance, and data transfer capabilities for national and international databases by acquiring appropriate equipment.
. Generate georeferencing fields for more precise and complete information, and publicly share the data, together with the corresponding images, through biodiversity portals.
Timetable:
Digitization of new records: JAN to DEC
Capture of digital images of collection specimens: JAN to DEC
Conditioning of collection specimens: JAN to JUL
Acquisition of equipment for databases: JAN to FEB
Progress reports: APR and SEP
Digitization of improved records: JAN to MAY
Digitization of georeferenced records: FEB to AGO
Quality control of recorded data: FEB, APR, JUN, AGO, OCT and DEC
Final report: NOV to DIC
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:
Firstly, we need to acquire the required equipment (a photographic camera with a 50 mm lens, especially dedicated to take pictures of herbarium specimens). Once obtained, we will proceed to start the process of images digitization and modernization by taking pictures of the herbarium specimens. The starting point to be photographed will be the available plant species types, and afterwards to continue with the genera more intensively studied by our staff (e.g. Celtis, Schinopsis, Capparis s.l., Opuntia, Ruprechtia, etc.), and then to continue with the rest of the collection. The completion of the task will certainly take several years, but the purchase of the required camera will be a noteworthy starting point for the project. Last but not least, the Herbarium has a new permanent member of staff funded by CONICET (Dr. Debora Chamorro, with a doctorate's thesis on Celtis taxonomy), who can devote most of her working hours to the present project, thus ensuring the chances of success. Also, there is a whole Botany team with permanent UNR positions (with very diverse lines of expertise such as Cactaceae taxonomy, Neotropical biogeography, etc.), and with student interns, which ensures institutional commitment, guaranteeing the continuous and sustainable development of the project.
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Darién Eros Prado
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