Small Collections Grant
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Digitization, informatization and conservation of a small and young Neotropical Herbarium
Brazil
Digitally image, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
HUFABC
Federal University of ABC
Objective:
Herbaria are sources of biodiversity data. However, barriers, as voucher access, can hamper the development of botanical knowledge. The focus of this project is to overcome this obstacle by promoting online availability of voucher imagens, beginning by our small collection with ca. 2,500 exsiccates (100% digitalized but only 50% with available images). Nowadays, only one shared platform serves the 12 Herbaria in São Paulo city and metropolitan region and a new portable platform will help to overcome this obstacle in the HUFABC and other small collections from our region.
Timetable:
Activity Period
Seal the windows and stop fonts of humidity: Jan-Mar/2021
Air-conditioner installation: Apr-Jun/2021
Fumigation: Jan, May, Sep, Dec/2021
Platform construction: Jan-Jun/2021
Acquisition of Photograph material: Fev-Mar/2021
Voucher photos from HUFABC collection: Jul-Sep/2021
Data submission to online databases (SpeciesLink and GBIF): Oct/2021
Start cycles of platform movement among Herbaria: Oct/2021
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. Digitalization: A platform to share.
Here we aim to construct a portable digitalization platform, easy to move and share with others Herbaria. The platform basic structure will be a base with arms to fix the camera coupled with a trigger. Lights from the top and both sides will avoid shadows on the image. To photograph small samples, an additional macro lens will be used. The specimen identification will be accessed by a barcode scanner coupled to a computer. The JABOT, free software to manage the botanic collection, will receive the exsiccate image, link it with the barcode and to all specimen biological information. To make it available online, all data will be submitted to the SpecieLink and GBIF databases.
2. Conservation improvements
Besides to share the Herbarium data, it is important to keep the collection well preserved, safe from insect and mould. It is achieved by keeping the collection at low temperature and humidity. The HUFABC is equipped with three dehumidifiers and two old air-conditioners, but considering the size of the room, additional air-conditioner equipment is desirable. The initiatives to reduce the humidity should be associated with sealed windows (what needs to be made), to avoid humidity variation. It is especially important in a building inside the Atlantic Rain Forest. These initiatives, associated with the use of insect repellents will ensure the quality of the botanic collection.
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Ana Paula de Moraes
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