The following questionnaire was sent out to participants from the region. Follow the link after each question for responses.

1. Do you permit us to put your response to this questionnaire on the website for the Deep South eFlora workshop?

For representatives of herbaria:

2. Approximately, what fraction of your herbarium specimens are from the state in which you are located? Responses to Questions 2-4

3. Approximately, what fraction of your herbarium specimens are from the East Gulf Coastal Plain?

4. Approximately, how many specimens did you add in 2004 from the state in which you are located?

5. Which organizations most frequently visit your herbarium (e.g., your specific state natural heritage program, a specific land management organization)? Responses

6. Are you databasing your collection? Responses

If yes to 6, please answer the following:

6a. Which software package are you using (e.g., Specify, KE Emu, something homegrown)? If it is homegrown, which database management system (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL) are you using?

6b. How many hours/week are dedicated to databasing your collection (e.g., if one person is paid for 10 hrs/week and another volunteers 5 hrs/week, then you'd answer 15 hrs)?

6c. How many of your specimens have been databased?

6d. At what rate are specimens entered (i.e., approximate number of minutes/specimen)?

6e. Do you make your database available on the web?

6f. Is your herbarium a DiGIR data provider?

6g. What agencies fund your databasing projects?

7. Are you digitally imaging your specimens? Responses

If yes to 7, please answer the following:

7a. Which imaging hardware do you use (e.g., Microtec 9600 XL flatbed scanner, Kodak DSC 14n digital SLR camera)?

7b. How many hours/week are dedicated to digitally imaging your collection?

7c. How many specimens have been digitally imaged?

7d. At what rate are specimens digitally imaged (i.e., approximate number of minutes/specimen)?

7e. Do you make your digital images available on the web?

7f. At what resolution do you store your images?

7g. In what format do you store your images (e.g., jpg, tif, MrSid)

7h. How much server space do you have for storing your images?

7i. What agencies fund your digital imaging projects?

8. Are you georeferencing your specimens? Responses

If yes to 8, please answer the following:

8a. Which software package are you using (e.g., ArcGIS, a specific open source application)?

8b. How many hours/week are dedicated to georeferencing your collection?

8c. How many of your specimens have been georeferenced?

8d. At what rate are specimens georeferenced (i.e., approximate number of minutes/specimen)?

8e. Do you make your georeference data available on the web?

8f. What agencies fund your georeferencing projects?

9. Are you building interactive keys for the flora? Responses

If yes to 9, please answer the following:

9a. Which software package are you using (e.g., Lucid, Delta's Intkey)

9b. How many hours/week are dedicated to building interactive keys?

9c. What agency funds your key-building project(s)?

10. Are you databasing your gray literature (e.g., reports to local natural resource management agencies, checklists to local areas)? Responses to Questions 10 and 11

11. Approximately what fraction of your gray literature do you make available online?

For representatives of conservation and natural resource management agencies:

If your organization also maintains an herbarium, please answer the questions above as well.

12. How frequently do you visit your local herbarium? Responses^?

13. Approximately what proportion of those visits do you think would be unnecessary if the herbarium's collections were databased and that data were available online? Responses^?

14. Approximately what proportion of those visits do you think would be unnecessary if the herbarium's collections were digitally imaged at a high resolution and those images were available online? Responses^?

15. Approximately what proportion of those visits do you think would be unnecessary if the herbarium's collections were georeferenced and that data were delivered online using ArcIMS (for example)? Responses^?

16. Approximately what proportion of those visits do you think would be unnecessary if the herbarium's gray literature were available online? Responses^?

-- AustinMast - 12 Oct 2005
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