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

在Stefan ie Ickert-Bond博士的指导下，阿拉斯加大学博物馆(ALA)获得了一笔赠款，用于收藏最近从爱荷华州立大学获得的J.P.安德森收藏的32,000件北极和北方植物标本。ALA拥有来自Beringia省最大的植物标本收藏。在更新世冰河时代，这一地区没有冰，为白令陆地上的生物提供了避难所，也为植物在亚洲和北美之间扩散提供了一种手段。该项目将建立一个在线数据库，存有19万份标本标本的数字图像。将使用创新的数字工具来自动从标本表上的标签获取数据，并通过使用条形码标签来实施物体跟踪系统。这些数据将被添加到全球生物多样性信息设施、MorphBank和GenBank。阿拉斯加大学博物馆将为K-12的教师和学生组织一次讲习班，以突出该地区活植物作为教育工具的效用，并通过动手活动鼓励人们对植物的兴趣。

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.