Digitization PEN: Partnership to Existing Macrofungi Collection Consortium--Digitization of an Important Regional Collection of Macrofungi at the Pringle Herbarium

佛蒙特州大学的普林格尔药物馆(VT)将加入大型真菌收藏联盟(MACC)，这是一个专题收藏网络(TCN)，致力于增加对蘑菇及其盟友(大型真菌)的了解。该联盟包括来自24个州的35个机构的植物园、自然历史博物馆和大学。在这个项目中，普林格尔植物标本馆的所有3,000个大型真菌标本都将被数字化，由此产生的数据和图像将通过MACC的在线Myco门户网站和iDigBio共享门户网站发布，供全世界的计算机使用。普林格尔植物标本馆的大型真菌收藏将提供对新英格兰北部大型真菌的独特关注，以及1840年至1910年早期记录不多的重要代表性。增加这些收藏以加强大型真菌联合会将增加关于大型真菌随时间和空间对其宿主植物的影响以及这些变化如何影响人类健康和经济企业的研究。佛蒙特大学的本科生将进行数字化和成像，并在此过程中增加他们对生物多样性研究的理解。普林格尔植物标本馆将通过蘑菇鉴定研讨会吸引当地大型真菌爱好者的参与，以激发业余人士对真菌对人类事务的影响的兴趣。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分颁发的，由该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)获得。

The University of Vermont's Pringle Herbarium (VT) will join the Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC), a Thematic Collections Network (TCN) dedicated to increased understanding of mushrooms and their allies (macrofungi). The Consortium includes 35 institutions' botanical gardens, natural history museums and universities from 24 states. For this project, all 3,000 macrofungi specimens at the Pringle Herbarium will be digitized, and the resulting data and images will be released for worldwide computer access through the MaCC's online MycoPortal and the iDigBio shared portal. The macrofungi collections at the Pringle Herbarium will provide a unique focus on the macrofungi of northern New England and significant representation from the early, poorly documented period from 1840-1910. Adding these collections to enhance the Macrofungi Consortium will increase the research possible on the impact of macrofungi on their host plants over time and space and how these changes impact human health and economic enterprise. University of Vermont undergraduates will perform the digitization and imaging and in the process increase their understanding of research on biological diversity. The Pringle Herbarium will engage the local community of macrofungi enthusiasts with mushroom identification workshops to stimulate amateur interest in the impact of fungi on human affairs. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).