CSBR: Natural History Collections: Upgrading and Digitizing OTS Biological Field Station Herbaria

CSBR：自然历史馆藏：OTS 生物野外站标本馆的升级和数字化

• 批准号: 1201121
• 负责人: Rakan Zahawi
• 金额: $ 15.38万
• 依托单位: Organization for Tropical Studies Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1201121&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Collections; Upgrading

The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) will create a unified, web-based, digital herbarium database for its three regional herbaria in Costa Rica, using the format developed for the Las Cruces Biological Station (http://www.ots.ac.cr/herbarium). OTS will also upgrade herbarium equipment and help process and digitize the more than 8,000 specimens that are currently backlogged at the three biological stations. OTS herbaria collectively house more than 13,000 specimens; however, much of the storage infrastructure and equipment is obsolete, and only a fraction of specimens have been digitized. The geographic areas represented by these herbaria encompass the range of diversity and principal habitats in Costa Rica. The project will provide significant benefits to the field of tropical biology by enhancing current research capabilities at OTS field stations and their areas of influence, and by creating opportunities for international collaborations with US scientists in research and conservation. The digital herbarium will be a critical information resource for US- and Costa Rican-based researchers and students, and will play an important role as a teaching tool and in the development of innovative student projects, given that more than 100 US courses use OTS stations annually. As high-resolution scans of all specimens will be available as on the web, the resource will be accessible anywhere there is internet service, making this information available to the broader scientific community.

热带研究组织（OTS）将使用为Las Cruces生物站开发的格式（http://www.ots.ots.ac.ac.ac.cr/herbarium），为其在哥斯达黎加的三种区域草药为其在哥斯达黎加的三种区域草药创建一个统一的，数字草药数据库。 OTS还将升级标本室设备，并帮助处理并数字化8,000多个标本，这些标本目前在三个生物台上积压。 OTS Herbaria共同容纳了13,000多个标本；但是，许多存储基础架构和设备都已过时，只有一小部分标本已被数字化。这些草药代表的地理区域涵盖了哥斯达黎加的多样性和主要栖息地的范围。该项目将通过增强OTS现场站及其影响力领域的当前研究能力，并通过与美国科学家在研究和保护方面的美国科学家创造机会，从而为热带生物学领域提供重大好处。 数字植物标本室将成为美国和哥斯达黎加的研究人员和学生的关键信息资源，并将作为教学工具和创新学生项目的开发发挥重要作用，鉴于每年有100多个美国课程使用OTS。 由于所有标本的高分辨率扫描都将在网络上提供，因此在互联网服务的任何地方都可以访问该资源，从而使更广泛的科学界可以使用此信息。