Development and Support for MUSE, a Microcomputer-based System for Managing Natural History Collections

MUSE 的开发和支持，一种基于微机的自然历史收藏管理系统

• 批准号: 9209099
• 负责人: Julian Humphries
• 金额: $ 39.09万
• 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: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-03-01 至 1995-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9209099&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Support; MUSE; Microcomputer; based

Dr. Julian Humphries is a fish biologist and museum curator at Cornell University. He has developed a database software system called "MUSE" for managing museum collection data with microcomputers, and more than twenty natural history collections (mostly vertebrate) around the world have adopted the system. Dr. Humphries proposes to continue development of the software system by adapting it to new hardware platforms (Macintosh and UNIX machines), and establishing inter-site connections using Internet. Dr. Humphries also plans three workshops to introduce newcomer museums to collection computerization, to train other curators and collection managers in the use of MUSE, and to develop community-wide data standards for collection databases. The MUSE software system has had great impact on the community of vertebrate biologists by making data readily available from museum collections. Access to these data are having important impact on research in evolution, biological diversity and global climate change, and the community's reliance on these data will expand and accelerate. The proposed extension of the MUSE Project will benefit the research community in tangible, immediate ways.

朱利安·汉弗莱斯博士是康奈尔大学的鱼类生物学家和博物馆馆长。他开发了一个名为“MUSE”的数据库软件系统，用于用微型计算机管理博物馆的藏品数据，全球有二十多个自然历史藏品（主要是脊椎动物）采用了该系统。Humphries博士建议继续开发软件系统，使其适应新的硬件平台（Macintosh和UNIX机器），并利用互联网建立站点间连接。汉弗莱斯博士还计划举办三个讲习班，向新博物馆介绍馆藏计算机化，培训其他策展人和馆藏管理人员使用MUSE，并为馆藏数据库制定社区范围的数据标准。MUSE软件系统对脊椎动物生物学家社区产生了巨大的影响，它使博物馆收藏的数据随时可用。获取这些数据对进化、生物多样性和全球气候变化的研究产生了重要影响，而且社区对这些数据的依赖将会扩大和加速。拟议的MUSE项目扩展将以切实、直接的方式使研究界受益。