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Revision as of 14:34, 4 December 2013


These resources are an at-a-glance introduction to existing Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs), including a volunteer contact and their email for each project, and some rudimentary information about the organisms in their proposal. This information hopes to be an aid to anyone writing a proposal, or who has recently received funding and is looking for tips and advice.

TCN Lightening Round Progress Reports at Summit 3, November 2013

Each TCN gave a succinct digitization progress report: https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-summit-iii-0

TCNs at a Glance

Below is a table of TCN project information. RDCNs are added below for completeness since they work closely with thematic networks.

TCN Date Contact with Email Digitization Methodology Workflow Software Organisms # of Specimens/Images # of Collaborators
InvertNet 2011 Christopher Dietrich robotic scanning of vials, slides and drawers, crowd-sourcing of label data from images arthropods 56,158,337/894,719 14 (1 PEN)
Tri-trophic (TTD) 2011 Katja Seltmann (insects), Barbara Thiers (plants) imaging herbarium sheets with the eBioBox Arthropod Easy Capture, Symbiota insects (Hemiptera, Hymenoptera) and vascular plants 1.6M (insects) 6.1M (plants)/611,000 30
Lichens & Bryophytes (LBCC) 2011 Corinna Gries, Tom Nash‎‎, Ed Gilbert label imaging, using OCR for data capture Symbiota lichens & bryophytes 2.3M/2.3M 73 (3 PENs)
New England Vascular Plants (NEVP) 2012 Patrick Sweeney robotic scanning apparatus for herbarium sheets, specimen-by-specimen label data capture Symbiota, EMu vascular plants 1.29M/1.29M 18
PaleoNICHES 2012 Bruce Lieberman specimen-by-specimen label data capture Specify fossils 8 (2 PENs)
MacroFungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) 2012 Barbara Thiers label imaging, crowd-sourcing of label data Symbiota macrofungi 34
Southwest Collections of Arthropods (SCAN) 2012 Neil Cobb visionary digital workflow, specimen-by-specimen label data capture Symbiota ground dwelling arthropods 15 (1 PEN)
Fossil Insect Collaborative (FIC) 2013 Dena Smith unknown fossil insects 7
Vouchered Animal Communication Signals 2013 Michael Webster digitizing analog sound recordings, imaging specimens & labels birds, frogs, fish and insects 7
Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium (MHC) 2013 Chris Neefus imaging herbarium sheets with the eBioBox macroalgae 1,143,072/1,143,072 49

RDCNs at a Glance

RDCN Contact with Email Methodology Organisms # of Collections
VertNet Dave Bloom aggregator / facilitator mammals, birds, fish, herps mammals (), birds (), fish (12), herps (64)
Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) Dave Baxter aggregator / facilitator plants
Fishnet2 Collaborative Georeferencing Hank Bart, Jr. georeferencing fish
Mississippi Herbaria Consortium (Magnolia grandiFLORA) Lucile McCook aggregator / facilitator plants
Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria Ben Legler aggregator / facilitator plants
Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortia of Herbaria (TORCH) Wayne Elisens aggregator / facilitator plants