NANSH Working Group
This wiki supports the work of the NANSH (North American Network of Small Herbaria) Working Group, a group founded at the 2013 conference of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, Charleston, WV.
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Contact Information
- For further information about this working group or the Small Collections Network, contact:
- Gil Nelson (gnelson@bio.fsu.edu) or
- Anna Monfils (monfi1ak@cmich.edu)
- To join the Small Collections Network listserv, visit: SCNet.acis.ufl.edu
Interest Group Working Documents
Upcoming Webinars and Meetings
- All meetings/webinars are held at https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/smallherb
- 7 July 2014, 3:00 p.m. EDT Georeferencing herbarium specimens using Geolocate, Part I, with Nelson Rios
- 21 July 2014, 3:00 p.m. EDT Georeferencing herbarium specimens using Geolocate, Part II, with Nelson Rios
Potential and Recommended Meeting Topics
- Using Geolocate for georeferencing herbarium collections (Nelson Rios): this could be a series of several webinars all focused on herbarium georeferencing.
- Digital Photography 101: Morphology of a digital camera (Gil Nelson): this could also be series with more than one speaker.
- Digital image file types and standards, what file formats mean and recommended practices: JPG, TIFF, NEF, CR2, DNG
- Demonstration of Semi-automatic Label Information Extraction System (SALIX) (Daryl Lafferty): see for reference, http://nhc.asu.edu/vpherbarium/canotia/SALIX3.pdf
- Uploading data through the Specify Workbench (Andy Bentley): this could also be a 3 or 4-part series
- The future of NSF funding for small herbaria (NSF staff): where small herbaria fit into the picture
- Digitization 101: Basics I need to know to start, initial steps for getting started (suggested from Small Herbarium Workshop at FSU)
- What are Darwin Core and IPT?
- OCR, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
- What does digitization do for me?
- Sustaining Digitization: After the initial digitization
- Sharing Resources: Creating a Consortium of Small Collections
Meetings
- 14 Feb 2014, 2-3 p.m. Stinger Guala, BISON, GBIF, ITIS
Discussion Notes
Species/Herbaria lists by states
- Methods
- Composite Species Lists
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Michigan
- Tennessee
- West Virginia
Research Tasks
- Criteria for species selection (G species, co-efficient of conservation, endemics, invasive, weedy, etc.)
- Strategies for selecting herbaria from each state
- Strategies for sampling data from not-yet-digitized herbaria
- Compiling/writing a literature review
- Compiling data from specimens cited in floras and publications (Travis)
- Determining the use of BISON data/tools
North American Network of Small Herbaria
Botany 2014 Small Herbarium Workshop
- Draft Agenda
- Planning team
- Libby Ellwood (Florida State University/iDigBio)
- Ed Gilbert (Arizona State University)
- Emily Gillespie (Marshall)
- Kari Harris (Arkansas State University)
- Erica Krimmel (Sagehen Field Station)
- Travis Marsico (Arkansas State University)
- Anna Monfils (Central Michigan University)
- Ashley Morris (Middle Tennessee State University)
- Gil Nelson (Florida State University/iDigBio)
- Pam Soltis (University of Florida/iDigBio)
- Kim Watson (New York Botanical Garden)
APG Documents and Web Sites
- Notes (2013-10-11)
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2009: latest paper (APGIII)
- Stevens: Angiosperm Phylogeny website
- Chase and Reveal 2009: phylogenetic classification of land plants for APGIII
- Smith et al. 2006: recent treatment of ferns
- Rothfels Sundue et al 2012: revised family level classification of Polypodiales
- Index Fungorum web site