Small Collections Grant
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Herbarium FLOR: Manegement improvement, security and users control
Brazil
Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
FLOR
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Objective:
1 - Control the access of people to the herbarium collection and curation rooms, in order to better protect samples and equipment
2 - Improve collection management and agilizing inclusion and assembly of exsiccates
3 - Improvement of didactic and divulgation resources of the collection
Timetable:
As the requested budget refers only to the purchase of equipment, they will be put into use at the moment they are purchased, which is expected to be completed before July 2020.
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:
1 - Control users more efficiently through the installation of electronic locks that only allow access to previously registered people. The collection currently has its doors accessible to anyone 24 hours a day, without any control, at the risk of being accessed by persons without proper training or information, which may cause irreversible disorganization in the collection.
2 - Purchase of a paper guillotine capable of cutting A3 size paper will allow agility and better finishing in the assembly of plant samples.
3 - The installation of exhibition tables inside the collection room, besides making the environment more beautiful, will allow the external visitors a better exposition and explanation of what is a Herbarium, encouraging the scientific curiosity in these visitors, specially children students who frequently visit us.
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Silvia Venturi
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