Fungal digitization projects
A. N. MILLER (1), B. M. Thiers (2), C. Gries (3), T. Nash (3), E. Gilbert (4). (1) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.; (2) New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.; (3) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, U.S.A.; (4) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
Recent funding initiatives through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have provided mycologists with opportunities to digitize and database large numbers of fungal specimens housed in fungaria throughout the United States. While the Mellon Foundation is focused on digitizing type specimens with data offered through the JSTOR website, the NSF Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program seeks to expand digitized data of all North American voucher specimens with fungal data offered through one of several Symbiota website portals. The Lichens, Bryophytes and Climate Change (LBCC) project aims to digitize over 900,000 lichens, while the Macrofungi Collections Consortium (MaCC) plans to digitize over 700,000 macrofungal specimens. A third project, the Microfungi Collections Consortium (MiCC), is being proposed to digitize microfungal specimens. Workflows, participants, progress to date, and opportunities to participate in these projects will be discussed.
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