New York Botanical Garden Type Specimen Catalog: Macrofungi.

纽约植物园类型标本目录：大型真菌。

• 批准号: 0346293
• 负责人: Barbara Thiers
• 金额: $ 33.63万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0346293&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; York; Botanical; Garden; Type

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.

在B博士的指导下，纽约植物园获得了一笔赠款。Thiers创建了一个完整的大型真菌模式标本的电子目录（例如，蘑菇和相关的有机体）目前保存在纽约植物园标本馆。 由于大型真菌在干燥后（它们作为博物馆标本保存的状态）外观会发生急剧变化，因此必须对活体的照片和描述进行补充，以进行适当的鉴定。 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，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指的标本一起物理存储。该项目的目标是将标本本身的数字化数据与来自它们的补充数据的数字化效果图相关联，以便该机构持有的与给定模式标本有关的所有数据通过花园的在线标本目录，NYBG虚拟植物标本馆进行虚拟关联。 建立大型真菌类型目录的项目包括四个部分：1）数据输入，或将数据从标本标签转录到NYBG虚拟植物标本馆数据库系统中; 2）用出版文献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公布数据。 该项目将需要一名全职编目员，将大约20 000个样本标签的数据转录到机构数据库，并收集辅助插图或其他文件进行数字化，还需要一名样本数字化仪助理，采集图像。 两名学生数字化仪将学习数据转录和标本成像技术，并将开发网页，解释目录中的数据，以更广泛的受众。NYBG真菌收集是研究这组生物的关键资源。 它是北美同类中第二大的收藏品，包括大约50万件标本。完成后，大型真菌的类型目录将允许更多的科学家使用花园的收藏品，并将允许他们更快，更便宜地从收藏品中获得他们需要的信息。 大型真菌仍然是记录最少的生物群体之一，许多物种尚未命名或分类。 然而，这些生物在生命网络中至关重要。 大型真菌类型标本目录的在线提供将减少访问这些参考标本和与它们相关的数据的时间，并促进这些生物的识别和定性。 该项目将为教育和科学研究服务。 它将积极支持大学生作为学生数字化人员的工作和培训。 利用虚拟植物标本室开发的所有课程辅助工具将可直接纳入其他联机科学或技术展览或其他教育辅助工具。