The DIGIT seed money award for 2003 invested approximately $2.8 million US in natural history collections digitisation activities world wide. In total 17 projects were funded, which resulted in the digitisation of more than 1,000,000 specimen based records, including more than 70,000 records of type specimens. In addition, 800,000 digitised specimen records were geo-referenced and made accessible.
No. | Project Coordinator | Host Institution | Title | Amount (US $) |
1. | Reed Beaman | Yale University New Haven CT USA | Biogeomancer: Georeferencing web services for natural history collections | 50,000 |
2. | Javier Beltrán | Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Buenos Aires, Argentina | The National Network of Collections – pilot datasets and seed money for triggering the electronic release of biodiversity information across Argentina. | 50,000 |
3. | Francisco Cejas | Centro Nacional de Biodiversidad (CeNBio), Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática (IES) Havana, Cuba | Digitization of type specimens from the main Cuban biological collections data | 14,526 |
4. | B.J. Conn | Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Sydney, NSW, Australia | Repatriation of Electronic Accession Data to the Papua New Guinea National Herbarium | 49,800 |
5. | Christiane Denys | Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle Paris, France | Sahelo-Sudanian Rodent Database: Completion of Digitisation and On Line Publishing | 30,500 |
6. | Daniel L. Graf | The Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, USA | Georeferencing the Malacology Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences | 49,650 |
7. | Jaime Güemes | Universitat de València (Estudi General) Valencia, Spain | Spanish and Portuguese Platform for Botanical Diversity Data Online | 50,000 |
8. | J.N. Labat | Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle Paris, France | Botanical Collections on the Web for the World MNHN Herbarium digitized including type specimens imaging, a pilot project for two families of flowering plants and for an historical collection of “cryptogams | 49,795 |
9. | Keiichi Matsuura | National Science Museum Tokyo, Japan | Fish Databases of Japan | 30,000 |
10. | Angela E. Newton | The Natural History Museum London, UK | Digitization of type specimens of bryophytes in the Natural History Museum, England | 47,354 |
11. | David A. Simpson | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK | Electronic Cataloguing and Imaging of Monocotyledon Type Specimens at Kew | 45,944 |
12. | Jorge Soberón Mainero | The National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity of Mexico (Conabio) Mexico City, Mexico | Digitisation and Data Quality Control of Mexican and Central American Botanical Specimens Held at the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium | 50,000 |
13. | Barbara M. Thiers | New York Botanical Garden Bronx, NY, USA | Completing the Type Index for Mushrooms and Related Groups of Fungi (Agaricales and Gasteromycetales) | 48,945 |
14. | Tomi Trilar | Slovenian Museum of Natural History Ljubljana, Slovenia | Digitisation of Slovenian Natural History Collections | 30,000 |
15. | Jesús Ugalde | Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) Santo Domingo, Heredia, Costa Rica | Towards the establishment of a model national level biodiversity information Network | 34,000 |
16. | Lou van Guelpen | Huntsman Marine Science Centre St Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada | Quality Assessment and Quality Control of the Atlantic Reference Centre Museum Database for On-Line Availability | 26,299 |
17. | Ken Walker | Museum Victoria Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Digitization of Vertebrate and Mollusca Primary Types held in Australian Institutions | 50,000 |
