Capacity Expansion and Imaging/ Data Capture at the Herbarium of the University of Alaska Museum (ALA)

在斯蒂芬妮·伊克特·邦德博士的指导下，阿拉斯加大学博物馆（ALA）获得了一笔赠款，用于收藏最近从州立大学爱荷华州安德森收藏馆获得的32,000份北极和北方植物标本。ALA拥有白令吉亚省最大的植物标本收藏。在更新世冰河时期，这一地区没有冰，为白令陆地“桥”上的陆生生物提供了避难所，也是植物在亚洲和北美之间传播的一种方式。该项目将建立一个包含190 000幅植物标本数字图像的在线数据库。创新的数字化工具将用于从植物标本页上的标签自动捕获数据，并通过使用条形码标签实施对象跟踪系统。这些数据将被添加到全球生物多样性信息设施，MorphBank和GenBank中。阿拉斯加大学博物馆将为K-12教师和学生组织一个研讨会，突出该地区活植物作为教育工具的实用性，并通过动手活动鼓励对植物的兴趣。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Alaska Museum (ALA) under the direction of Dr. Stefanie Ickert-Bond to incorporate 32,000 specimens of arctic and boreal plants from the J.P. Anderson Collection, recently acquired from Iowa State University. ALA has the largest collection of plant specimens from the Beringia Province. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, this region was free of ice, providing a refuge for terrestrial organisms on the Bering Land "Bridge" and a means by which plants could disperse between Asia and North America. This project will produce an online database with 190,000 digital images of herbarium specimens. Innovative digital tools will be used to automate the capture of data from labels on the herbarium sheets, and to implement an object-tracking system through the use of barcode labels. The data will be added to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, MorphBank, and GenBank. The University of Alaska Museum will organize a workshop for K-12 teachers and students to highlight the utility of living plants in the region as educational tools and to encourage an interest in plants through hands-on activities.