Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a greater scientific understanding of our urban world

合作研究：数字化 TCN：大西洋中部大都市：对我们的城市世界有更深入的科学理解

• 批准号: 1601393
• 负责人: Cynthia Hong-Wa
• 金额: $ 7.27万
• 依托单位: Delaware State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1601393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Digitization; TCN; Mid

In light of the increasingly urban future of our planet, a thorough understanding of the biological processes at work in urban areas is necessary for the continued survival of Earth's inhabitants, including humans. The first step in that understanding is to know what thrives, survives, or perishes in cities, now and in the past. The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) Project begins this study by looking at vascular plants, with the digitization of roughly 700,000 herbarium specimens from eleven institutions, including public and private universities, state agencies, arboreta, museums, and botanic gardens, in the urban corridor from New York City to Washington, D.C. As the largest, oldest, and most populated urban corridor in the U.S., this area and its flora present a unique opportunity for the study of urbanization, particularly given its rich herbarium collections, containing specimens collected over the last 400 years. The data mobilized in this effort will help us achieve a better scientific understanding of living urban systems, a critical need for urban planners, restoration ecologists, environmental engineers, (landscape) architects, and conservationists engaged in creating more sustainable and better designed cities, including the constructed and restored natural environments of our urban areas.Digitization of each specimen in the MAM Project will result in a high resolution image, a databased record of collection metadata, and a georeferenced point, all of which will be made publicly available online. Building on already successful regional programs, the MAM Project will partner with schools, universities, botanical clubs, and the general public to crowd source databasing efforts and to recruit citizen scientists to help build urban floras online, enabling not only increased digitization efficiency, but educational and research opportunities as well. The MAM Project also includes new developments for data cleaning and standardization in Symbiota, which will expedite the use of digitized specimen data for research, and new reporting features which will advance digitization workflow and project management. 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).

鉴于我们这个星球日益城市化的未来，彻底了解城市地区的生物过程对于包括人类在内的地球居民的持续生存是必要的。理解这一点的第一步是了解什么在城市中蓬勃发展、生存或消亡，无论是现在还是过去。中大西洋大都市(MAM)项目从观察维管植物开始这项研究，数字化了来自11个机构的大约70万个植物标本，包括从纽约市到华盛顿特区的城市走廊中的公立和私立大学、州立机构、植物园、博物馆和植物园。作为美国最大、最古老和人口最多的城市走廊，该地区及其植物群为研究城市化提供了一个独特的机会，特别是考虑到它丰富的植物标本收藏，其中包含过去400年收集的标本。这项工作中调动的数据将帮助我们更好地科学理解活着的城市系统，迫切需要城市规划师、恢复生态学家、环境工程师、(景观)建筑师和自然资源保护者致力于创造更可持续和更好设计的城市，包括我们城市地区已建造和恢复的自然环境。MAM项目中的每个标本的数字化将产生高分辨率图像、采集元数据的数据库记录和地理参考点，所有这些都将在网上公开。在已经成功的地区性项目的基础上，MAM项目将与学校、大学、植物俱乐部和普通公众合作，众包数据库工作，并招募公民科学家帮助在线建立城市植物群，不仅提高了数字化效率，还提供了教育和研究机会。MAM项目还包括在共生区进行数据清理和标准化的新进展，这将加快数字化标本数据用于研究的速度，以及新的报告功能，这将促进数字化工作流程和项目管理。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划的生物收藏数字化国家资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)获得。