New York Botanical Garden Type Specimen Catalog: Macrofungi.

在B.梯也尔博士的指导下，纽约植物园获得了一笔赠款，用于创建一个目前保存在纽约植物园植物标本馆的大型真菌（如蘑菇和相关生物）类型标本的完整插图电子目录。由于大型真菌在干燥（它们作为博物馆标本保存的状态）后外观发生了巨大变化，因此必须对活生物体的照片和描述进行补充，以便正确识别。由于这些补充元素的多样性（其中一些是手写在纸上或笔记本上的，一些是照片或绘画，一些是印刷在书中），因此不可能将它们与它们所涉及的标本物理存储在一起。该项目的目标是将标本本身的数字化数据与来源于它们的补充数据的数字化渲染相关联，这样，该机构持有的与给定类型标本有关的所有数据都可以通过花园的在线标本目录（纽约植物园虚拟标本馆）虚拟地关联起来。大型真菌类型目录的创建项目包括四个部分：1)数据录入，即将标本标签数据转录到NYBG虚拟植物标本馆数据库系统中；2)用已发表文献中的信息补充标签数据；3)创建样本和其他补充数据元素的数字图像；4)数据评估与编辑；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，并组装辅助插图或其他文档进行数字化，还需要一名标本数字化助理来捕获图像。两名数字化员学生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真菌收集是研究这组生物的关键资源。它是北美同类藏品中第二大的，由大约50万个标本组成。一旦完成，大型真菌的类型目录将允许更多的科学家使用花园的藏品，并将使他们能够更快、更便宜地从藏品中获得所需的信息。大型真菌仍然是最缺乏文献记载的生物群体之一，许多物种尚未被命名或分类。然而，这些生物在生命网络中是至关重要的。在线提供大型真菌类型标本目录将减少对这些参考标本及其相关数据的访问时间，并促进对这些生物的鉴定和表征。这个项目将为教育和科学研究服务。积极支持大学生数字化工作和培训。所有使用虚拟植物标本馆开发的课程辅助工具将可直接整合到其他在线科学或技术展览或其他教育辅助工具中。

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.