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

阿拉斯加大学博物馆 (ALA) 植物标本室的容量扩展和成像/数据采集

• 批准号: 0646482
• 负责人: Stefanie Ickert-Bond
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0646482&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Capacity; Expansion; Imaging; Data; Capture

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.

在Stefanie 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，用于整合最近从爱荷华州立大学获得的j·p·安德森收藏中的32,000种北极和北方植物标本。ALA拥有白令陆桥省最大的植物标本收藏。在更新世冰河时期，这个地区没有冰，为白令海陆“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途径。该计划将建立一个网上数据库，其中包括19万份植物标本馆标本的数码图像。创新的数码工具将用于自动从植物标本馆的标签上获取数据，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，强调该地区活植物作为教育工具的效用，并通过实践活动鼓励对植物的兴趣。