Collaborative Research: The Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project

合作研究：南方腹地植物标本成像项目

• 批准号: 0646311
• 负责人: Leslie Goertzen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0646311&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Deep; South; Plant

A grant has been awarded to Florida State University under the direction of Dr. Austin Mast to coordinate a collaborative effort to put images and data from a number of herbaria in the southeastern U.S. online. The region is one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the country and home to nearly 3,000 species of native plants. The project will bring biodiversity informatics tools to bear in making herbarium specimen images and data available to a worldwide audience. Five institutions from Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi will make high quality images of the specimens, and an automated optical character recognition system (HERBIS) will be used to extract data from the labels. The images will be submitted to an open web image repository (MorphBank), and the digital content will be disseminated through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) portal. The collaborative effort will take advantages of economies of scale in terms of equipping, training herbarium staff, and coordinating web activities to assemble this regional bioinformatics resource. The project will involve undergraduate students in the imaging and database work. The online information will be valuable to environmental managers and planners. A project will develop a lesson plan for middle school and high school students in the region.

在奥斯汀·马斯特博士的指导下，佛罗里达州立大学获得了一笔拨款，以协调合作，将美国东南部多个植物标本馆的图像和数据放到网上。该地区是该国最大的生物多样性热点地区之一，拥有近 3,000 种本土植物。该项目将利用生物多样性信息学工具，向全世界观众提供植物标本馆标本图像和数据。来自佛罗里达州、阿拉巴马州和密西西比州的五个机构将制作样本的高质量图像，并使用自动光学字符识别系统 (HERBIS) 从标签中提取数据。这些图像将提交到开放网络图像存储库 (MorphBank)，数字内容将通过全球生物多样性信息设施 (GBIF) 门户进行传播。合作工作将利用设备、植物标本馆工作人员培训和协调网络活动方面的规模经济优势来汇集这一区域生物信息学资源。该项目将让本科生参与成像和数据库工作。在线信息对于环境管理者和规划者来说非常有价值。一个项目将为该地区的中学生和高中生制定课程计划。