Digital Access to the Field Museum's Neotropical Plant Types Collection

数字访问菲尔德博物馆的新热带植物类型收藏

• 批准号: 0447285
• 负责人: Michael Dillon
• 金额: $ 30.89万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0447285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digital; Access; Field; Museum; Neotropical

A grant has been awarded to The Field Museum under the direction of Dr. Michael Dillon for partial support of an initiative to database and image 23,800 type collections of vascular plants from the Neotropics and 13,200 Berlin Negatives. Herbarium specimen sheets identified as types will be scanned; core data from original labels will be captured, cleaned, georeferenced, and automatically processed for archival storage and web distribution. The project will add value to these data through verification of the type status of each specimen based on original literature and revisionary works. Data and images will reside in the Museum's recently acquired KE Software EMu ('Electronic Museum') database system and be immediately available online; they will also be made available for access through the portals of Museum collaborators. The addition of KE Software's portal to the EMu database will allow the Museum's Botany Department to increase distribution of specimen data, enhancing an effort to deliver large quantities of Mesoamerican specimen data via the web, in collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden. Data and images will be repatriated via DVDs to all major herbaria in Latin America. The Field's Botany collections rank among the world's largest assemblage of flowering plants and cryptogams, totaling about 2.7 million specimens, some 40,000 of which are types. Of this number, 28,000 represent Neotropical flowering plants. Type collections are the critical element in the description and delimitation of organisms at the species and infraspecific levels. Ready access to type collections and corresponding information, such as original literature, is indispensable to correct assessment of global, regional, and local biodiversity. This project addresses the impracticality of frequent loans of valuable type specimens for purely taxonomic purposes by providing online availability of high-quality images and corresponding label information to meet the needs and demands of the scientific community. Data pertinent to the verification of type specimens increase the overall value of a type collection. The project offers an important service to the international scientific community, especially in Latin America, where floras for identification often do not exist and those that do typically are devoid of photos or illustrations.Repatriation of specimen data to the countries where the specimens were originally collected will permit in-country researchers to use these data to improve their biotic inventories and taxonomic studies of the vascular plants. It will also enhance collaborations and active projects with local institutions in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and other countries. At the Field Museum, these projects will include training of personnel in methods for databasing, plant taxonomy, and verification of type specimens. The project will give Chicago-region Latin American students a chance to collaborate with Field Museum researchers to improve the quality of the Museum's web presence by leveraging the collaborative program of HiTech Latin American interns.

在迈克尔·狄龙 (Michael Dillon) 博士的指导下，菲尔德博物馆获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持一项计划，该计划对来自新热带地区的 23,800 种维管束植物和 13,200 种柏林阴性植物进行数据库和成像。将扫描被识别为类型的植物标本表；原始标签的核心数据将被捕获、清理、地理参考并自动处理，以用于存档存储和网络分发。该项目将通过基于原始文献和修订工作验证每个标本的类型状态来增加这些数据的价值。数据和图像将驻留在博物馆最近收购的 KE Software EMu（“电子博物馆”）数据库系统中，并可立即在线获取；它们还可以通过博物馆合作者的门户网站进行访问。将 KE Software 的门户添加到 EMu 数据库将使博物馆植物学部门能够增加标本数据的分发，从而加强与密苏里植物园合作通过网络提供大量中美洲标本数据的努力。数据和图像将通过 DVD 传回拉丁美洲所有主要植物标本室。该菲尔德的植物学收藏是世界上最大的开花植物和隐花植物收藏之一，共有约 270 万个标本，其中约 40,000 个属于类型。其中，28,000 种代表新热带开花植物。模式收藏是在物种和种下水平上描述和界定生物体的关键要素。随时获取类型收藏品和相应信息（例如原始文献）对于正确评估全球、区域和地方生物多样性是必不可少的。该项目通过提供在线高质量图像和相应的标签信息来满足科学界的需要和要求，解决了出于纯粹分类目的频繁借用有价值的模式标本的不切实际问题。与模式标本验证相关的数据增加了模式收藏的整体价值。该项目为国际科学界提供了重要服务，特别是在拉丁美洲，那里通常不存在用于识别的植物区系，而且存在的植物区系通常也没有照片或插图。将标本数据送回最初采集标本的国家将允许国内研究人员利用这些数据来改进维管植物的生物清单和分类学研究。它还将加强与玻利维亚、哥斯达黎加、危地马拉、厄瓜多尔、墨西哥、秘鲁和其他国家当地机构的合作和积极项目。在菲尔德博物馆，这些项目将包括对数据库、植物分类学和模式标本验证方法方面的人员进行培训。该项目将为芝加哥地区的拉丁美洲学生提供与菲尔德博物馆研究人员合作的机会，通过利用高科技拉丁美洲实习生的合作计划来提高博物馆网络展示的质量。