Computerization of the Fish Collection at the California Academy of Sciences

加州科学院鱼类收藏的计算机化

• 批准号: 9022954
• 负责人: Tomio Iwamoto
• 金额: $ 6.7万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1993-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9022954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computerization; Fish; Collection; California; Academy

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.

加州科学院的鱼类学收藏包含超过 200,000 份标本，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的具有历史意义的重要藏品。 博士。负责该藏品的馆长 Tomio Iwamoto 和 William Eschmeyer 已开始实施一项计划，将所有标本批次计算机化，以便研究界更容易获得它们。 他们计划从南美淡水鱼类的数据输入开始，这将为由国家科学基金会支持、费城自然科学院斯科特·谢弗博士协调的多机构国际数据库项目添加重要数据。 拟议的南美鱼类数据库是一项前所未有的努力，它将博物馆标本的各个数据库连接起来，创建一个向研究人员开放的广域网络。 一旦完成，该数据库将成为系统、进化、生态和生物地理学研究的独特且广泛使用的资源。