Small Collections Grant
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Curatorial improvements of historical collections deposited in MEDEL herbarium
Colombia
Database, Process backlog
Cost (USD):
2000
MEDEL
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellin
Objective:
- Advances in the mounting of a backlog of stored historical specimens.
- Data-basing of specimens of Lamiales in BRAHMS 7.9
- Restoration (repairing of mounting issues) of historical specimens of Lamiales that require it.
Timetable:
Total time: 10 months
Month 1: Tasks planning and hiring of students.
Months 2 to 5: Mounting backlog of historical specimens.
Months 6 to 9: Databasing specimens of Lamiales and restoration activities when needed.
Month 10: Project closing and report submission.
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:
Hiring students previously trained in herbarium curatorial activities for a total of 4 periods of 16 weeks (12 hours per week). The planned work could be done either by 2 students each one for 2 periods or by 4 students for 1 period each depending of their availability. The supporting stipend for students for each period will be around US $500 following University standards.
2 work periods will be spent in databasing and revising mounting issues of specimens belonging to the order Lamiales (around 3000 in MEDEL) which is one of the few not included yet in the local database maintained in BRAHMS 7.9 for 15 years now. The other 2 work periods will be spent in partially processing the backlog of unmounted specimens which sums around 3500 to date. Based on known average mounting times in MEDEL, each 16 weeks period will allow the mounting of 600 to 700 specimens. Around 70% of the herbarium specimens (totaling now 70.000) are in the database and around 30% of them were collected before 1950 and can be considered historical relative to the timeline of botanical collection in Colombia. MEDEL was established in 1927 and is the oldest continuing operating herbarium in the country.
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"Other" target:
Jorge Perez Zabala
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