Collection Computerization in the Division of Birds, Field Museum of Natural History

菲尔德自然历史博物馆鸟类部门的馆藏计算机化

• 批准号: 8700341
• 负责人: Scott Lanyon
• 金额: $ 14.01万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-10-15 至 1991-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8700341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collection; Computerization; Division; Birds; Field

The research collections maintained by the Division of Birds at the Field Museum of Natural History represent a significant portion of the world's avian specimen material. The scope of the collections in terms of species representation (80% of the world's species in the skin collection, 20 % in the skeletal collection and 15% in the pickled collection), the recency of the majority of the specimens and the superb state of curation make the collections at the Field Museum a premier resource for evolutionary biologists. With the changes in the world's avifauna (both in distribution and absolute numbers) brought about by man's activities and the increasing difficulty in obtaining permits for further collecting, the value of the Museum's specimens is incalculable. To protect the collection better and make information about it more accessible to the scientific community, this project will start computerization of the collection data. Computerization will improve the staff's ability to answer collection inquiries, will vastly improve access to collection information for visiting professionals and other potential users, will allow the staff to determine what geographic areas and what taxa are poorly represented in the collection, and will increase collection security by enabling the staff to know at all times where each specimen should be located.

鸟类部保存的研究收藏品 在菲尔德自然历史博物馆， 世界鸟类标本的一部分。 的范围 收集的物种代表性（80%的 世界上的物种在皮肤收集，20%的骨骼 收藏和15%的腌制收藏），近的 大多数标本和高超的策展状态使 菲尔德博物馆的藏品是 进化生物学家 随着世界的变化， 鸟类（分布和绝对数量） 人类活动的影响，以及 获得进一步收集的许可证， 博物馆的标本是无法估量的。 为了更好地保护收藏品， 科学界更容易接触到，这个项目将 开始收集数据的计算机化。 电算化 将提高工作人员回答收集问题的能力， 将极大地改善访问收集信息的访问 专业人员和其他潜在用户，将允许工作人员 确定哪些地理区域和哪些分类群 在收藏中，并将增加收藏 安全性，使工作人员能够随时了解每个 标本应在。