iDigBio/SERNEC Herbarium Workflows Workshop

NSF的生物收藏计划的愿景是保护美国的生物收藏品，并增加收集数据的可访问性，这将通过研究带来新的发现，并通过改善教育和推广更好地理解和欣赏生物多样性，从而改善环境和经济政策。本次研讨会旨在让植物标本馆馆长社区参与进来，并学习其他收藏类型的经验，以提高数字化的速度和效率。该奖项旨在支持为植物标本馆管理人员和策展人举办的研讨会的参与者费用，该研讨会旨在巩固和标准化整个数字化过程中的最佳实践。该研讨会将汇集来自美国各地的专家，参加由数字化中心（iDigBio）和东南地区专业知识和收藏网络（SERNEC）主办的会议，以评估和发布数字化过程所有阶段的社区标准。拟议的活动将使整个社区的最佳实践标准化，提高数字化的速度和效率，从而降低标本数字化的成本，这是NSF生物收集计划（CSBR和ADBC）的主要目标。这些努力将对向研究界、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和公众提供的数字化数据的数量和质量产生积极影响。

A vision of NSF's biological collections programs is preservation of biological collections in the U.S. and increased accessibility of collections data that will lead to new discoveries through research, and a better understanding and appreciation of biodiversity through improved education and outreach, resulting in improved environmental and economic policies. This workshop seeks to engage the community of herbarium curators and learn from the experiences of other collection types to increase the speed and efficiency of digitization. The activities proposed targets curators and managers across a wide spectrum of institutions distributed across eighteen states.This award supports participant costs for a workshop for herbarium managers and curators with the goal to consolidate and standardize best practices across the digitization process. The workshop would bring together experts from across the U.S. in sessions hosted by the digitization HUB (iDigBio) and the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC) to evaluate and publish community-wide standards for all stages of the digitization process. The proposed activities will standardize best practices across the community, increasing the speed and efficiency of digitization resulting in a reduction in the cost of specimen digitization, a major goal of the NSF's biological collections programs (CSBR and ADBC). These efforts will positively impact the quantity and quality of digitized data made available to the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.