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.

Interest Group Working Documents

• Proposal to establish interest group
• Discussion notes on potential small herbarium RCN
• Issues in Recruiting, Retaining, and Sustaining Digitization in Small Herbaria

Potential 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
• SilverBiology (Michael Giddens)

Meetings

• 14 Feb 2014, 2-3 p.m. Stinger Guala, BISON, GBIF, ITIS

Discussion Notes

• Chat 2013-09-06
• Notes from meeting 14 Feb 2014

Species/Herbaria lists by states

• Arkansas
  • Arkansas species list (G1-G3)
  • Arkansas List Notes
• California
  • California species list
  • California herbaria
  • Test species map for CA
• Colorado
  • Colorado species list
  • Colorado herbaria
• Florida
  • Florida G1 Species
  • Florida G2 Species
  • Florida herbaria
• Georgia
  • Georgia Rare Plants
  • Georgia Herbaria
• Michigan
  • Michigan Listed Species
  • Michigan Notes
• Tennessee
  • Tennessee G1-G3 species
  • Tennessee Herbaria
• West Virginia
  • West Virginia T&E Species

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

• Link to the North American Network of Small Herbaria Portal

Botany 2014 Small Herbarium Workshop

• Draft Agenda
• Planning team
  • Ed Gilbert (Arizona State)
  • Emily Gillespie (Marshall)
  • George Johnson (Arkansas Tech)
  • Travis Marsico (Arkansas State University)
  • Anna Monfils (Central Michigan University)
  • Ashley Morris (Middle Tennessee State University)
  • Gil Nelson (iDigBio, Florida State University)
  • Kari Harris (Arkansas State University)
  • Pam Soltis (iDigBio, University of Florida)

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

Relevant Papers and Publications

• Successfully Curating Smaller Herbaria and Natural History Collections in Academic Settings (Neil Snow)