SGER: An Interactive Collections Availabilty List on the World Wide Web for Orphaned and Unstudied Collections

96-16088 Lipps这个关于小型SGER的建议是在这些奖项的指导方针之内的，因为它是一个新颖的想法，将服务于收藏界，并冒险将新技术应用于该社区长期存在的问题。该奖项的成果是一个网络互动的社区数据输入数据库，也可以在网络上进行交互式查询，这将推动收藏社区在博物馆和研究人员之间进行更多的互动。如果社区中有足够多的人确实利用了这个奖项的产品，它将有助于采用更科学的方法来采用孤儿收藏，并确定可供研究和管理的科学标本的位置。产品本身将很快出现，因为许多行计算机代码可以从其他基于集合的数据库应用程序中改编，并专门针对手头的问题进行定制。这个新的应用程序最初是为无脊椎古生物学收藏而开发的，除了PI所在的机构将向社区提供的服务外，它还将供其他网站使用和采用。

96-16088 Lipps This proposal for a small SGER is within the guidelines for these awards because it is a novel idea that will serve the collections community and ventures into the application of new technology to a long-standing problem in that community. The product of this award, a Web interactive, community-data-entry database that also can be queried interactively on the Web, will push the collections community toward more interaction among museums and researchers. If a sufficient portion of the community does take advantage of the product of this award, it will contribute to a more scientific approach to the adoption of orphan collections and the location of scientific specimens that are available for study and curation. The product itself will appear quickly, as many lines of computer code can be adapted from other collections-based database applications and tailored specifically to the problem at hand. The new application, developed initially for invertebrate paleontology collections, will be made available for adaptation and adoption by other sites, in addition to the service that will be provided to the community by the PI's institution.