Computerization of the Oregon State University Mycological Collection

在过去的十年中，生物数据的分发和使用占据了非常重要的地位。 科学家比以往任何时候都更需要利用自主和不同的数据源来解决属于系统学和生态学范畴的生物学问题。影响科学家使用此类数据的能力的两个限制因素是所需数据的电子可用性和格式可访问性。 俄勒冈州立大学植物标本馆 (OSC) 积极参与开发数据库，​​以解决与 OSC 馆藏相关的这些问题。 OSC 的短期目标是使整个真菌学收藏品以电子数据库形式建立，该格式易于与其他数据库集成并可通过万维网 (WWW) 访问。该项目将对 OSC 真菌学收藏品中大约 60,000 个真菌标本相关的生物信息进行计算机化处理。 馆藏的计算机化将允许所有感兴趣的用户访问馆藏，其中包括许多无价的馆藏（例如世界上最全面的松露和假松露馆藏、来自世界各地的 VAM 真菌类型以及可去除的子囊菌和地衣）。 俄勒冈州立大学长期以来一直被认为是真菌系统学和生态学研究中心。 俄勒冈州立大学八年来真菌学研究的绝大多数凭证标本都保存在 OSC，收藏的计算机化将使世界各地的真菌生态学家和系统学家更容易获得这些信息。 此外，OSC 还拥有大量来自 H.J. Andrews 实验森林/LTER 的最新标本。 这些数据的计算机化将使 HJA 和整个 LTER 网络的生态学家和其他研究人员能够获得有关负责森林生态系统中大部分养分循环的生物体的关键生物信息。

Over the past decade, the distribution and use of biological data has assumed a position of great importance. More than ever scientists are required to draw upon autonomous and disparate sources of data to address biological questions that fall under the umbrella of systematics and ecology. Two of the limiting factors affecting the scientist's ability to use such data are the electronic availability and format accessibility of the requisite data. The Oregon State University Herbarium (OSC)is actively involved in developing databases that address these issues with respect to the OSC's holdings. The short-term goal at OSC is to have the entire mycological collection electronically databased in a format that is easily integrated with other databases and accessible via the World Wide Web (WWW).This project will computerize the biological information associated with approximately 60,000 fungal specimens housed in the OSC mycological collection. The computerization of the collection will allow all interested users access to the collection's holdings which includes numerous invaluable collections (e.g. world's most comprehensive collection of truffles and false-truffles, types of VAM fungi from around the world as well as removal ascomycetes and lichens). OSU has long been recognized as a center for the study of systematics and ecology of fungi. The vast majority of voucher specimens from eight decades of mycological research at OSU are housed at OSC and computerization of the collection will make this information more readily available to fungal ecologists and systematists around the world. Also, OSC holds a large collection of vouchered, recent specimens from the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest/LTER. Computerization of this data will allow ecologists and other researchers at HJA and throughout the LTER network access to critical biological information regarding the organisms responsible for much of nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems.