United States Virtual Herbarium Workshop At the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis Missouri, 26-28 January 2010

该项目将汇集植物标本馆（植物博物馆）界的代表以及附属的计算机科学家和信息技术专家，共同制定一项国家计划，使该小组的信息可用。该小组将着重建立社区获取信息、使用这些信息和向公众传播这些信息的最佳做法。策展人将制定一个可持续的计划来动员社区并寻求资金来实现社区目标。植物标本馆界有四个主要的长期目标：1)到2020年将全国所有的植物标本馆馆藏数字化；2)提高植物标本馆馆长和附属机构的研究、教学和服务潜力；3)从代表性不足的群体中招募学生从事植物标本馆科学工作，在21世纪提供持续的智囊团；4)以有效和有用的形式向公众、K-12教师和学生、学院和大学教师和学生、科学家、公司和决策者提供信息。植物标本馆为系统学家、生态学家、气候学家和进化生物学家提供了一个巨大的潜在数据库。这次会议将使正在进行的工作国家化，并整合地方和区域的进展，通过美国虚拟植物标本馆在大陆范围内提供植物标本馆数据。

This project will bring together representatives from the herbarium (plant museum) community along with affiliated computer scientists and information technologists to develop a national plan to make information available from this group. The group will focus on establishing community best practices to acquire information, to use this information and to disseminate the information to the public. Curators will develop a sustainable plan to mobilize the community and seek funds to meet community goals. The herbarium community has four main long term goals: 1) digitize all herbarium collections in the country by the year 2020, 2) enhance research, teaching and service potentials of herbarium curators and affiliates, 3) recruit students from underrepresented groups to careers in the herbarium sciences, to provide a continuing brain trust in the 21st century, and 4) provide information to the public, K-12 teachers and students, college and university faculty and students, scientists, corporations and decision-makers in effective and useful formats. The herbarium community offers a tremendous potential database for systematists, ecologists, climatologists, and evolutionary biologists. This meeting will nationalize ongoing efforts and integrate local and regional progress to provide herbarium data at a continental scale through the United States Virtual Herbarium.