Planning Workshop for the Consortium of California Herbaria, March 18-20, 2007, Asilomar Conference Center, California

这个奖项给兰乔圣安娜植物园的指导下，苏拉范德普兰是资助研讨会的加州植物园，一个合作的13个植物园从国家和私人机构。该联盟建立了一个在线门户网站，为16个收藏品中约80万件标本提供信息，并为研究、教育和资源管理提供标本注释和贷款。讲习班有几个目标。一个是评估纳入其他较小标本馆的可能性，并确定这些藏品的状况。这将提高该州植物群的覆盖率。第二，研讨会将制定加州植物标本馆社区的长期优先事项，并帮助将来自较小的、无代表性的植物标本馆的数据纳入在线资源。将举行会议，讨论如何扩大到较小的收藏、数据库需求和能力、标准制定，并制定计划，将活动与州内和国际上的其他在线资源结合起来。该研讨会将对各机构的教育规划以及向公众和国家环境管理人员提供植物标本信息的规划产生更广泛的影响。

This award to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden under the direction of Sula Vanderplank is to fund a workshop for the Consortium of California Herbaria, a collaboration of 13 herbaria from state and private institutions. The Consortium has established an online portal for some 800,000 specimens in 16 collections to provide information to users and facilitate annotation and loans of specimens for research, education, and resource management. The workshop has several aims. One is to assess potential for inclusion of other smaller herbaria and determine the status of these collections. This will enhance the coverage for the state's flora. Second, the workshop will develop long-term priorities of the California herbarium community and help bring data from smaller, unrepresented herbaria into the online resource. Sessions will be held on outreach to smaller collections, database needs and capabilities, standards development, and to develop plans to integrate activities with other online resources in the state and internationally. The workshop will have broader impacts on the educational planning of the institutions and in their planning to make botanical specimen information available to the public and state environmental managers.