CSBR: Living Stocks: Database upgrade, digitization, and increasing accessibility of the Atlanta Botanical Garden Plant Collections

CSBR：活畜：数据库升级、数字化和增加亚特兰大植物园植物收藏的可访问性

• 批准号: 2050268
• 负责人: Lauren Eserman
• 金额: $ 58.86万
• 依托单位: Atlanta Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stocks; Database; upgrade

The Atlanta Botanical Garden (ABG) has served as a leader in plant science research, education, and conservation for more than four decades. These collections house 106,028 individual plants from 25,335 genetically unique accessions representing 12,096 taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties) from 276 plant families and over 1,800 genera. Most notably, ABG maintains the most diverse living collection of orchids in the United States with 2,328 taxa. Data related to these diverse plant collections are currently stored in an in-house database and are not accessible by the public or researchers. The focus of this project is to upgrade data storage to a modern commercial database with a public interface allowing visitors, researchers, conservationists, and educators to search ABG plant collections remotely or while at the Garden. This project will make plant collections at the Atlanta Botanical Garden publicly accessible for research, education, and conservation.Botanic gardens play a critical role in basic plant research by providing freshly collected plant material to researchers from extensive living plant collections for very low cost. In addition, a highly skilled staff of horticulturists maintain and preserve collections full-time. The Plant Collections at the Atlanta Botanical Garden have been used in NSF funded projects and many other research projects, including graduate student research, and for conservation projects. To increase visibility and use of the collections for research, this project will migrate the existing Plant Records database to an updated platform which will be connected to external databases, making collection data publicly searchable. Priority plant collections will be digitized and permanently planted priority collections will be mapped. Research requests will be streamlined via creation of a Google Form. This will enable collection information to be shared with the greater research community via outreach to professional botanical societies and on the Garden’s social media pages. We expect utilization of the collection to significantly increase, allowing creative and impactful research to be undertaken with plants in the collections. During public events showcasing the collections the public database interface will be promoted to encourage visitors to explore collections digitally both before, during, and after their visit to the Garden. Finally, undergraduate and high school students will be integrated into the digitization project, learning plant morphology and GIS mapping, which are useful and transferable skills.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.

亚特兰大植物园（ABG）四十多年来一直是植物科学研究，教育和保护的领导者。这些收藏品包含来自25，335个遗传独特的品种的106，028株植物，代表来自276个植物科和1，800多个属的12，096个分类群（种，亚种和变种）。最值得注意的是，ABG拥有美国最多样化的兰花收藏，拥有2，328个分类群。与这些不同植物收藏相关的数据目前存储在内部数据库中，公众或研究人员无法访问。该项目的重点是将数据存储升级为一个现代化的商业数据库，并提供一个公共界面，允许游客、研究人员、自然资源保护主义者和教育工作者远程或在花园内搜索ABG植物收藏。该项目将使亚特兰大植物园的植物收藏品公开用于研究、教育和保护。植物园通过以极低的成本向研究人员提供从大量活体植物收藏中新鲜收集的植物材料，在基础植物研究中发挥着关键作用。此外，一个高技能的园艺工作人员维护和保存收藏全职。亚特兰大植物园的植物收藏已被用于NSF资助的项目和许多其他研究项目，包括研究生研究和保护项目。为了提高研究中收集的数据的可见度和使用率，该项目将把现有的植物记录数据库迁移到一个更新的平台，该平台将与外部数据库连接，使收集的数据可以公开搜索。优先植物收藏将被数字化，永久种植的优先收藏将被绘制成地图。研究请求将通过创建Google表单来简化。这将使收集信息能够通过与专业植物学会的联系和花园的社交媒体页面与更大的研究社区共享。我们预计，该藏品的利用率将显著提高，从而可以对藏品中的植物进行创造性和有影响力的研究。在展示藏品的公共活动期间，将推广公共数据库界面，以鼓励游客在参观花园之前、期间和之后以数字方式探索藏品。最后，本科生和高中生将被纳入数字化项目，学习植物形态学和GIS制图，这是有用的和可转移的技能。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。