Digital Access to the Field Museum's Neotropical Plant Types Collection

数字访问菲尔德博物馆的新热带植物类型收藏

• 批准号: 0447285
• 负责人: Michael Dillon
• 金额: $ 30.89万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0447285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digital; Access; Field; Museum; Neotropical

A grant has been awarded to The Field Museum under the direction of Dr. Michael Dillon for partial support of an initiative to database and image 23,800 type collections of vascular plants from the Neotropics and 13,200 Berlin Negatives. Herbarium specimen sheets identified as types will be scanned; core data from original labels will be captured, cleaned, georeferenced, and automatically processed for archival storage and web distribution. The project will add value to these data through verification of the type status of each specimen based on original literature and revisionary works. Data and images will reside in the Museum's recently acquired KE Software EMu ('Electronic Museum') database system and be immediately available online; they will also be made available for access through the portals of Museum collaborators. The addition of KE Software's portal to the EMu database will allow the Museum's Botany Department to increase distribution of specimen data, enhancing an effort to deliver large quantities of Mesoamerican specimen data via the web, in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden. Data and images will be repatriated via DVDs to all major herbaria in Latin America. The Field's Botany collections rank among the world's largest assemblage of flowering plants and cryptogams, totaling about 2.7 million specimens, some 40,000 of which are types. Of this number, 28,000 represent Neotropical flowering plants. Type collections are the critical element in the description and delimitation of organisms at the species and infraspecific levels. Ready access to type collections and corresponding information, such as original literature, is indispensable to correct assessment of global, regional, and local biodiversity. This project addresses the impracticality of frequent loans of valuable type specimens for purely taxonomic purposes by providing online availability of high-quality images and corresponding label information to meet the needs and demands of the scientific community. Data pertinent to the verification of type specimens increase the overall value of a type collection. The project offers an important service to the international scientific community, especially in Latin America, where floras for identification often do not exist and those that do typically are devoid of photos or illustrations.Repatriation of specimen data to the countries where the specimens were originally collected will permit in-country researchers to use these data to improve their biotic inventories and taxonomic studies of the vascular plants. It will also enhance collaborations and active projects with local institutions in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and other countries. At the Field Museum, these projects will include training of personnel in methods for databasing, plant taxonomy, and verification of type specimens. The project will give Chicago-region Latin American students a chance to collaborate with Field Museum researchers to improve the quality of the Museum's web presence by leveraging the collaborative program of HiTech Latin American interns.

在迈克尔·狄龙博士的指导下，向菲尔德博物馆提供了一笔赠款，用于部分支持一项倡议，即建立来自新热带地区的23,800种维管植物和13,200种柏林阴性植物的数据库和图像。将扫描被识别为类型的植物标本页;原始标签的核心数据将被捕获，清理，地理参考，并自动处理存档存储和网络分发。该项目将根据原始文献和修订工作，通过验证每个标本的类型状态，为这些数据增加价值。数据和图像将存储在博物馆最近收购的KE Software EMu（“电子博物馆”）数据库系统中，并立即在线提供;它们也将通过博物馆合作者的门户网站提供访问。KE软件的门户网站添加到EMU数据库将允许博物馆的植物学部门增加标本数据的分发，加强努力，通过网络提供大量的中美洲标本数据，与密苏里州植物园合作。数据和图像将通过DVD送回拉丁美洲的所有主要植物标本馆。菲尔德的植物学收藏品是世界上最大的开花植物和隐花植物组合之一，总计约270万个标本，其中约40，000个是类型。其中，28，000种代表新热带开花植物。模式标本是在物种和种下一级描述和界定生物体的关键要素。对模式标本和相应的信息（如原始文献）的快速访问对于正确评估全球、区域和地方生物多样性是必不可少的。该项目解决了为纯粹的分类目的频繁贷款有价值的模式标本的不切实际的问题，办法是在网上提供高质量的图像和相应的标签信息，以满足科学界的需要和要求。与模式标本的验证有关的数据增加了模式标本收集的整体价值。该项目为国际科学界提供了一项重要服务，特别是在拉丁美洲，那里通常不存在可供鉴定的植物群，而存在的植物群通常缺乏照片或插图，将标本数据送回标本最初收集的国家将使国内研究人员能够利用这些数据来改进其维管植物的生物清单和分类研究。它还将加强与玻利维亚、哥斯达黎加、危地马拉、厄瓜多尔、墨西哥、秘鲁和其他国家的地方机构的合作和积极项目。在菲尔德博物馆，这些项目将包括对人员进行数据库方法、植物分类学和模式标本验证方面的培训。该项目将使芝加哥地区的拉丁美洲学生有机会与菲尔德博物馆的研究人员合作，通过利用高科技拉丁美洲实习生的合作计划来提高博物馆的网络存在的质量。