In 2004, the DIGIT seed money programme has awarded a total of US$737,744 to 16 digitisation projects. Using this funding, over 2.6 million specimen (including more than 50,000 types) and observational records will be added to the GBIF network. The taxonomic distribution of the awards is 7 botanical, 2 mycological and 4 entomological collections, and one collection each for slime molds, mollusks and birds. The project investigators and their collaborators are located in 25 different countries.
No. | Project Coordinator | Host Institution | Title | Amount (US $) |
1. | Rodrigo Bernal | Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. | Digitisation of Collections at the National Colombia Herbarium | 49,960 |
2. | Finn Borchsenius | Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus Herbarium, Aarhus C, Denmark | Setting up Danish herbaria as data providers to GBIF | 49,061 |
3. | Gerrit Davidse | Missouri Botanical Garden, , St. Louis, MO, USA | Geo-referencing and Imaging Mesoamerican Vascular Plant Specimens | 49,950 |
4. | Mark Ero | National Agricultural Insect Collection, Boroko, Papua New Guinea | Digital Image Database of the Insects of Papua New Guinea | 50,000 |
5. | Yasuo Ezaki | Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo; University of Hyogo Yayoigaoka 6-chome, Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture Japan | Name Service under English Translation for Natural History Specimens Digitised in Japanese | 50,000 |
6. | Ledis Regalado Gabancho | Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática , Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba | Digitisation of Cuban Pteridophytes Collections | 16,492 |
7. | K.D. Hyde | Department of Ecology & Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Digitisation of fungal specimens at CMU, HUE, HKU(M), MIB, MRC, SWFC and YU, including comprehensive visualization of type specimens | 25,000 |
8. | Ming-guang Li | The Museum of Biology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China | Digitisation of Specimen Data of the Herbarium of Sun Yat-sen University, China | 50,000 |
9. | David W. Minter | CABI Bioscience, Egham, Surrey, UK | Digitising the CABI Bioscience Fungal Reference Collection (IMI), a Global Resource | 50,000 |
10. | Heimo Rainer | University of Vienna, Institute for Botany, Vienna, Austria | Digitisation of Botanical Collections in Austria (DIGIBOTA) | 49,825 |
11. | George Roderick | Insect Biology and Essig Museum of Entomology, University of Calif., Berkeley, CA, USA | Invasion Biology of Insects--Collections and Data | 50,000 |
12. | L. Ronkay | Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary | Digital Database off the Insects of Mongolia (DIDIM) | 49,000 |
13. | Martin Schnittler | Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany | Linking local databases for collections of plasmodial slime molds (Myxomycetes) to create a global web-based herbarium | 48,456 |
14. | Cameron Slatyer | Department of the Environment and Heritage, Natural Heritage Assessment Section, Canberra, ACT, Australia | Capture of Australian Land Mollusca Label and Observational data from Australian Collections | 50,000 |
15. | Leslie Gordon Underhill | Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa | Southern African historic bird database (SABASE): a tool for research and conservation | 50,000 |
16. | Judy West | Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia | Digitisation of Australian type collections held at Kew with repatriation of data to Australia | 50,000 |
