New York Botanical Garden Type Specimen Catalog: Macrofungi.

在B.Thiers博士的指导下，纽约植物园获得了一笔赠款，用于制作一份图文并茂的电子目录，列出目前保存在纽约植物园植物标本馆的大型真菌(例如蘑菇和相关生物)的模式标本。因为大型真菌在干燥后外观会发生巨大变化(它们作为博物馆标本保存的状态)，所以活的有机体的照片和描述必须补充干燥的标本，以便进行适当的识别。由于这些补充元素的性质多种多样(其中一些是手写在纸上或笔记本上，一些照片或绘画，一些印刷在书上)，不可能将它们与它们所指的标本实际存储在一起。该项目的目标是将标本本身的数字化数据与从标本中获得的补充数据的数字化再现联系起来，从而使该机构持有的与特定模式标本有关的所有数据都通过植物园的在线标本目录--NYBG虚拟标本馆--进行虚拟关联。创建大型真菌模式目录的项目包括四个部分：1)数据输入，或将标本标签中的数据转录到NYBG虚拟植物标本馆数据库系统中；2)用出版的文献中的信息补充标签数据；3)创建标本的数字图像和其他补充数据元素；4)数据评估和编辑；4)通过NYBG虚拟植物标本馆网站发布数据。该项目将需要一名全职编目员将大约20 000个标本标签的数据转录到机构数据库中，并汇编辅助插图或其他文件以进行数字化，并需要一名标本数字化助理来捕捉图像。两名学生数字化者将学习数据转录和标本成像技术，并将开发网页，向更广泛的受众解释目录中的数据。NYBG真菌收藏是研究这类生物的关键资源。它是北美同类标本的第二大收藏，由大约500,000个标本组成。大型真菌类型目录完成后，将允许更多的科学家使用花园的藏品，并使他们能够更快、更便宜地从藏品中获得所需的信息。大型真菌仍然是记录最少的活生物群之一，许多物种还没有命名或分类。然而，这些有机体在生命之网中至关重要。大型真菌类型标本目录的在线提供将减少对这些参考标本及其相关数据的查阅时间，并便利对这些生物的鉴定和表征。该项目将为教育和科学研究服务。积极支持大学生作为学生数字化者的工作和培训。使用虚拟标本馆开发的所有课程教具将可直接集成到其他在线科学或技术展品或其他教育教具中。

A grant has been awarded to the New York Botanical Garden under the direction of Dr. B. Thiers to create a fully illustrated electronic catalog of the type specimens of macrofungi (e.g., mushrooms and related organisms) currently preserved the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Because macrofungi change drastically in appearance upon drying (the state in which they are maintained as museum specimens), photographs and descriptions of the living organism must supplement dried specimens to permit proper identification. Because of the diverse nature of these supplemental elements (some of which are handwritten on paper or in notebooks, some photographs or paintings, some printed in books), it is impossible to store them physically with the specimens to which they refer. The goal of this project is to associate digitized data from the specimens themselves with digitized renderings of supplemental data derived from them, so that all data held by the institution that pertains to a given type specimen are associated virtually through the Garden's on-line specimen catalog, the NYBG Virtual Herbarium. The project to create the type catalog of macrofungi has four parts: 1) data entry, or the transcription of the data from specimen label into the NYBG Virtual Herbarium database system ; 2) supplementation of the label data with information from the published literature; 3) creation of digital images of the specimen and of other supplemental data elements; 4) data evaluation and editing; 4) publication of data through NYBG Virtual Herbarium web site. The project will require both a full-time cataloger to transcribe data from approximately 20,000 specimen labels into the institutional database and assemble ancillary illustrations or other documentation for digitization and a specimen digitizer assistant to capture images. Two student digitizers will learn the techniques of data transcription and specimen imaging, and will develop web pages that interpret the data in the catalog to a broader audience. The NYBG fungus collection is a key resource for research in this group of organisms. It is the second largest collection of its kind North America, consists of approximately 500,000 specimens. When completed, the type catalog of macrofungi will allow more scientists to use the Garden's collections, and will allow them to obtain the information they need from the collection more quickly and inexpensively. Macrofungi remain one of the most poorly documented groups of living organisms, and many species have not yet been named or classified. Yet, these organisms are critically important in the web of life. The availability of the macrofungi type specimen catalog on-line will reduce the access time to these reference specimens and the data associated with them and facilitate identification and characterization of these organisms. This project will serve the education as well as scientific research. It will actively support work and training by college students as student digitizers. All curriculum aids developed using the Virtual Herbarium will be available for integration directly into other on-line science or technology exhibits or other educational aids.