Digitization TCN: Collaborative: American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States

数字化 TCN：协作：美国十字路口：美国中南部维管植物区系数字化

• 批准号: 1902085
• 负责人: Mark Fishbein
• 金额: $ 93.42万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902085&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; American; Crossroads

The advent of data mobilization from biological specimens housed in U.S. institutions has profoundly enhanced the value of museum collections and has allowed scientific questions to be addressed in novel ways. The process of mobilization involves specimen digital image capture, transcription of label data, addition of geographic coordinates, and dissemination of the data through searchable online portals. This four-year project brings together 46 collaborating herbaria to mobilize the data from nearly two million plant specimens collected in the states of Oklahoma and Texas. Most of the herbaria in these states, as well as key herbaria from other states with large Oklahoma and Texas holdings, will participate. Because these two states constitute a major crossroads of North American ecological and plant diversity, digitizing their plant specimen data can serve as a key element for understanding ecosystem evolution across the North American continent. The project will include data for species of conservation concern, invasives, and environmental health indicators, thus enhancing species and habitat conservation and management and contributing to wide-ranging applications in biodiversity science. It will also involve as participants members of plant enthusiast organizations (such as native plant societies) in specimen data entry. The project will contribute to a globally competitive STEM workforce through workshops and lectures for its technicians and practical training for undergraduate interns.Digitized herbarium specimen data for the South-Central U.S. are sparse relative to other parts of the country, leaving a large geographic gap in our knowledge of North American plant biodiversity that impedes both regional and larger-scale efforts in solving environmental issues. To address this problem, the researchers will 1) establish a Thematic Collections Network (TCN) to digitize the data from nearly two million vascular plant herbarium specimens collected in Oklahoma and Texas; 2) disseminate the digitized data through an integrated online platform; 3) develop and implement innovative strategies to increase efficiency in specimen digitization; and 4) engage citizen scientists and students on project-based activities. The project is primed for action by its strong integration with the well-established Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH; www.torcherbaria.org), which will help oversee and guide the project. Coordination with Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio.org) hub will facilitate team-wide meetings, broader impact elements, and data workflows, mobilization, and access. Natural history collections are well positioned for the analysis of global change and the resulting impacts on regional biota. In this context, the digitized herbarium specimen data from the TORCH TCN will provide the capacity for addressing major hypotheses in the region concerning patterns of species richness and phylogenetic diversity, vegetation responses to climate change, and species distribution models based on substrate versus climatic data. Results of the project will be widely disseminated through professional publications and society meetings, local chapters of plant-enthusiast communities, social media outlets, and blogs on the TORCH website.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

来自美国机构中包含的生物标本的数据动员的出现已深刻提高了博物馆收藏的价值，并允许以新颖的方式解决科学问题。 动员的过程涉及标本数字图像捕获，标签数据的转录，添加地理坐标以及通过可搜索的在线门户传播数据的过程。 这个为期四年的项目汇集了46个合作，用于动员俄克拉荷马州和德克萨斯州收集的近200万植物标本的数据。 这些州的大多数草药，以及来自俄克拉荷马州和德克萨斯州大型控股的其他州的主要草药。 由于这两个州构成了北美生态和植物多样性的主要十字路口，因此将其植物标本数据数字化的数字化可以作为理解北美大陆生态系统进化的关键因素。 该项目将包括有关保护问题，入侵和环境健康指标的数据，从而增强了物种和栖息地保护和管理，并为生物多样性科学中的广泛应用做出了贡献。 它还将作为植物爱好者组织（例如本地植物社会）的参与者参与标本数据输入。 该项目将通过其技术人员的研讨会和讲座为全球竞争性的STEM劳动力做出贡献，并为本科实习生提供了实践培训。将美国中南部的标本式标本标本标本数据缩减相对于该国其他地区而言是稀疏的，在我们的北美植物生物多样性方面的地理差距中留下了巨大的地理差距，这些差距在我们的北部植物生物多样性方面遇到了较大的环境努力。为了解决这个问题，研究人员将1）建立一个主题收集网络（TCN），以将来自俄克拉荷马州和德克萨斯州收集的近200万个血管植物标本室标本的数据数字化； 2）通过集成的在线平台传播数字化数据； 3）制定和实施创新策略以提高样品数字化效率； 4）让公民科学家和学生从事基于项目的活动。该项目通过与成熟的德克萨斯州和俄克拉荷马州地区联盟（Torch; www.torcherbaria.org）的强大整合而采取行动，这将有助于监督和指导该项目。与集成数字化的生物聚会（idigbio.org）中心的协调将促进团队范围内的会议，更广泛的影响元素以及数据工作流程，动员和访问。自然历史收集非常适合分析全球变化以及对区域生物群的影响。 在这种情况下，来自火炬TCN的数字化标本室标本数据将提供解决该地区的主要假设的能力，这些假设涉及物种丰富度和系统发育多样性的模式，对气候变化的植被反应以及基于底物与气候数据的物种分布模型的植被反应。该项目的结果将通过专业出版物和社会会议，植物学生社区的本地章节，社交媒体渠道和博客在火炬网站上进行广泛传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。