Collection Improvement and Computerization of the Pullen Herbarium (MISS), University of Mississippi

密西西比大学普伦植物标本馆 (MISS) 的收藏改进和计算机化

• 批准号: 0096906
• 负责人: Lucile McCook
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Mississippi
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0096906&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collection; Improvement; Computerization; Pullen; Herbarium

The Pullen Herbarium of the University of Mississippi was founded in 1963 and is the largest public herbarium in the state. It contains over 62,000 accessioned vascular plant specimens and a backlog of over 40,000 specimens including bryophytes, lichens and myxomycetes. A majority of the specimens are from Mississippi and the southeastern United States. The recent reinvigoration of botanical studies in the departments of Biology and Pharmacognosy and in the Thad Cochran National Center for Natural Products Research has led the University of Mississippi to invest in faculty, research infrastructure and curricula in the plant sciences. In order to meet these challenges and serve as a repository for research vouchers, the Pullen Herbarium requires the installation of a mobile storage compactor system to increase collections storage, new cabinets to fill the compactor and to replace damaged cabinets, and the equipment, supplies and personnel to mount and accession the backlog. Several hundred historically important collections from the turn of the century will also be conserved and digitally documented. These collection improvements will increase total herbarium storage, allowing expansion. Due to the dearth of information on the flora of Mississippi when compared to most other states, funds are also requested to computerize collection data from Pullen Herbarium specimens. Personnel and equipment are required to enter specimen data into a relational database and build a searchable, multi-user platform on the World Wide Web, allowing information to be readily available for research, education, and public knowledge. An integrated three-year plan for collection improvement and computerization is presented that will stimulate research on the plants of Mississippi, encourage interdisciplinary contact, train students in curation and plant taxonomy, make important data readily available for research, and conserve the Pullen Herbarium for the future.

密西西比大学的普伦植物标本馆成立于1963年，是该州最大的公共植物标本馆。 它包含超过62，000个已加入的维管植物标本和超过40，000个积压的标本，包括苔藓，地衣和黏菌。 大多数标本来自密西西比和美国东南部。 最近，生物学和生药学系以及Thad Cochran国家天然产物研究中心的植物学研究重新焕发了活力，这使得密西西比大学投资于植物科学的教师、研究基础设施和课程。 为了应对这些挑战，并作为研究凭证的存放处，普伦植物标本馆需要安装一个移动的储存压缩机系统，以增加收藏品的储存量，需要新的标本柜来填充压缩机并更换损坏的标本柜，还需要设备、用品和人员来安装和加入积压的标本。 世纪之交的数百件具有重要历史意义的收藏品也将得到保护和数字化记录。 这些收集的改进将增加植物标本馆的总储存量，从而允许扩大。 由于缺乏资料的植物群的密西西比相比，大多数其他国家，资金也要求计算收集数据从普伦植物标本。 需要人员和设备将标本数据输入关系数据库，并在万维网上建立一个可搜索的多用户平台，使信息随时可用于研究、教育和公共知识。 一个综合的三年计划，收集改进和计算机化，将刺激密西西比的植物研究，鼓励跨学科的接触，培养学生在策展和植物分类学，使重要的数据随时可供研究，并保护未来的普伦植物标本馆。