REU: Computerization of the Cornell Ichthyology Collection

REU：康奈尔大学鱼类学馆藏的计算机化

• 批准号: 8812691
• 负责人: Amy McCune
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-01-15 至 1992-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8812691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Computerization; Cornell; Ichthyology; Collection

The Cornell Ichthyology Collection contains approximately 1.5 million preserved fishes. The Collection represents the diversity of fishes worldwide, but concentrates most heavily on North American freshwater fishes, and it contains the type specimens for 40 North American species. The Collection regularly provides information on the collection to a wide variety of scientific, government and public users and sends thousands of specimens out on loan to scientists at other institutions. However, some requests are currently impractical or impossible to answer. For example, the staff frequently receive inquiries for information on all the specimens from a particular state or other locality. With the current, ledger- based catalogue, such an inquiry takes weeks of time to answer, and all other collections activities must be postponed. This project, which will provide equipment and personnel to enter data on the entire collection into a computerized data base, will allow the Collection to answer such questions quickly and will increase the efficiency of all aspects of collection management.

康奈尔鱼类学收藏馆（Cornell Ichthyology Collection）收藏了大约150万条保存下来的鱼类。该标本馆代表了全球鱼类的多样性，但主要集中在北美淡水鱼类，它包含了40种北美物种的模式标本。标本馆定期向各种科学、政府和公众用户提供有关标本馆的信息，并将数千件标本借给其他机构的科学家。然而，有些请求目前不切实际或无法答复。例如，工作人员经常收到关于来自特定州或其他地方的所有标本的信息的询问。在目前基于分类账的目录下，这样的询问需要数周的时间才能回答，所有其他收集活动都必须推迟。这个项目将提供设备和人员，将整个收藏品的数据输入电脑化数据库，使收藏品能够迅速回答这些问题，并提高收藏品管理所有方面的效率。