Collaborative Digitization of New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Specimens from Amazonian Brazil

纽约植物园巴西亚马逊植物标本室标本的协作数字化

• 批准号: 0749751
• 负责人: Barbara Thiers
• 金额: $ 45.59万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-15 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0749751&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Digitization; New; York; Botanical

An award has been made to the New York Botanical Garden under the direction of Dr. Barbara M. Thiers for the enhancement of an online, virtual herbarium of plant specimens from Amazonian Brazil. The Garden holds over one-half million specimens from this biologically diverse and important country, and the grant will allow them to capture images and data from the specimens that can be accessed by researchers worldwide in studies of this flora. The Garden will work closely with Brazilian colleagues to ensure accuracy of the data for the specimens, and the electronic data will be made available to the Brazilian National Institute for Amazonian Research, which will support complementary efforts in that country. The data and information will be used by conservation biologists and botanists to document species distributions and inform decision makers dealing with this region, which contains many threatened species. Students in the US and Brazil will be involved in the project and will be trained in herbarium curation, database construction and management, and botanical research.

纽约植物园在芭芭拉·M.梯也尔为加强一个在线，虚拟植物标本馆的植物标本从亚马逊巴西。 该花园拥有来自这个生物多样性和重要国家的50多万个标本，赠款将使他们能够从标本中捕获图像和数据，供世界各地的研究人员在研究这一植物群时使用。 该园将与巴西同事密切合作，确保标本数据的准确性，并将向巴西国家亚马逊河研究所提供电子数据，该研究所将支持该国的补充努力。 保护生物学家和植物学家将利用这些数据和信息来记录物种分布，并为处理这一地区的决策者提供信息，该地区含有许多受威胁的物种。 美国和巴西的学生将参与该项目，并将接受植物标本馆管理、数据库建设和管理以及植物学研究方面的培训。