Small Collections Grant
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A small collection with a big purpose: The Argentine potato ex situ conservation project
Argentina
Database, Digitally image, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
BAL
UIB- Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata /EEA Balcarce, INTA
Objective:
The project we present here is part of the “BAL Strategic Plan” in which we define our mission as: BAL herbarium supports, with good quality data, the Germplasm Bank and provide housing for the collections of crops wild relatives and the native flora of the Tandilia and Ventania Mountain System in particular.
In order to fulfill this, our main objective is to become a valued and trusted resource for the GB and as subsequent objectives we propose: 1- to achieve curatorial excellence; 2- to produce a collecting and accessioning priorities list; 3- to synchronize the GB and the Herbaria database
Timetable:
Timetable
Activity – Month
1. Acquire the equipment – 1-2
2. Set the protocol for digitalization – 1- 2
3. Vouchers digitalization – 3- 4- 5-6-7-8-9-10
4. Database actualization – 3- 4- 5-6-7-8-9-10
5. Numbering – 3- 4-5-6-7-8-9-10
6. Scanner the old field notebooks 8- 9- 10- 11- 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.
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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 BAL Herbarium emerges as the need to document the diversity of wild potatos and accompanying flora that is collected as complementary tasks in the Active Germplasm Bank (GB). The collection encompasses 8,000/12,000 specimens, divided into two collections, on the one hand the "Solanum collection" and on the other, the rest of the species arranged alphabetically by families.
We plan to meet our main objective by:
1- Start vouchers digitalization and continue database entry: prioritizing the specimens that have entries in the GB. Crosscheck the information between the two databases.
2- Start (and continue) numbering: with special care of linking the numbering of the GB accessions and the voucher information of the herbarium label.
3- Scanner the old field notebooks: to have all the information of the hard books digitalized and available for the herbaria and germplasm bank staff, researchers and general public.
4- Scanner the vouchers of the GB accession: to have all the images of the vouchers digitalized and available for the herbaria and GB staff, researchers and general public.
These activities will ensure the fulfillment of 1- to achieve curatorial excellence, by producing good quality data (throughout the availability if curated images, documents and information); 2- to produce a collecting and accessioning priorities list, by identifying the information gaps; 3- to synchronize the GB and the Herbaria database, by crosschecking the information.
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Alicia Lopez
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