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）已经担任植物科学研究，教育和保护的领导者已有40多年了。这些收藏品拥有来自25,335个独特的配件的106,028个单独的植物，分别来自276个植物家族和1,800多个属，代表12,096个分类单元（物种，亚种和品种）。最值得注意的是，ABG拥有2,328个分类单元，在美国维护着最不同的兰花。与这些不同工厂收集有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到现代商业数据库，并具有公共接口，使访客，研究人员，保护主义者和教育工作者可以远程或在花园中搜索ABG工厂收藏。该项目将使亚特兰大植物园的植物收藏公开用于研究，教育和保护。botanicalGardens在基本植物研究中发挥了至关重要的作用，通过向研究人员提供新鲜收集的植物材料，从广泛的生活植物收藏中，以非常低的成本提供。此外，一位高技能的骑马者工作人员全职维护和保留收藏。亚特兰大植物园的工厂收集已用于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。为了增加研究收集的可见性和使用，该项目将将现有的工厂记录数据库迁移到将连接到外部数据库的更新平台，从而使收集数据可公开搜索。将对优先的工厂收集进行数字化，并将永久播种优先级收集。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向专业植物会和花园的社交媒体页面与大研究社区共享。我们预计该系列的利用将大大增加，从而可以使用收藏品中的植物进行创造性和影响力的研究。在展示收藏的公共活动中，将促进公共数据库界面，以鼓励访客在访问花园之前，之中和之后以数字方式探索收藏品。最后，本科生和高中生将被整合到数字化项目中，学习植物形态和GIS映射，这是有用和转移技能的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估NSF的法定任务。