Computerization of the Fish Collection at the California Academy of Sciences

加州科学院的鱼类学收藏包含了20多万件标本，其中包括从斯坦福大学、印第安纳大学以及乔治·范德比尔特基金会转移来的具有历史意义的重要藏品。负责收藏的岩本智雄博士和威廉·埃施迈尔博士已经开始计划将所有标本批次电脑化，以便让研究界更容易获得它们。他们计划从南美淡水鱼的数据输入开始，这将为一个由国家科学基金会支持的多机构国际数据库项目增加重要数据，该项目由费城自然科学院的斯科特·谢弗博士协调。拟议中的南美鱼类数据库是一项史无前例的努力，将博物馆标本的独立数据库连接起来，以创建一个向研究人员开放的广域网络。一旦建成，该数据库将成为系统、进化、生态和生物地理研究的独特和大量使用的资源。

The Ichthyology Collection of the California Academy of Sciences contains more than 200,000 lots of specimens, and includes historically important collections that have been transferred from Stanford and Indiana Universities, and from the George Vanderbilt Foundation. Drs. Tomio Iwamoto and William Eschmeyer, Curators in charge of the Collection, have embarked on a plan to computerize all specimen lots, in order to make them more readily available to the research community. They plan to begin with data entry for freshwater fishes from South America, and this will add important data to a multi-institution international database project supported by the National Science Foundation, coordinated by Dr. Scott Schaefer of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The proposed database of South American fishes is an unprecedented effort to link separate databases of museum specimens to create a wide-area network with open access to researchers. Once completed, the database will be a unique and heavily used resource for systematic, evolutionary, ecological, and biogeographic research.