Enhanced Housing, Level of Curation, and Accessibility for Two Major Invertebrate Paleontology Collections: The Paleontological Research Institution and Cornell University

增强古生物学研究机构和康奈尔大学这两个主要无脊椎动物古生物学馆藏的住房、管理水平和可访问性

• 批准号: 9709308
• 负责人: Wendy Taylor
• 金额: $ 35.45万
• 依托单位: Paleontological Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9709308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhanced; Housing; Level; Curation; Accessibility

9709308 Taylor The collections presently housed by the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) contain more than two and a half million specimens; they are among the largest and scientifically most important invertebrate paleontology collections in the United States. These collections, however, had been allowed to deteriorate and had been essentially inaccessible to the research and educational communities for many years. In 1992, a major reorganization and renovation effort was begun that continued after 1994 with NSF support. The chief results of this effort to date have been the resuscitation of the PRI collection and the transfer to PRI of the invertebrate fossil and Recent mollusk collections of Cornell University (CU). Condition of and accessibility to these collections has now significandy improved and use accordingly has greafiy increased. This award will support the next phase of this process of renewal. Two-thirds of the CU collection is stored in temporary trailers in the back yard of the Institution; these will be rehoused in new, permanent storage facilities in order to make them useful once again to the scientific community. PRI's type and figured collection and the microfossil collection will also be rehoused and curated in preparation for computerization. During the spring of 1997, the Institution will be constructing approximately 4,000 square feet of new collections space as cost-sharing with the NSF on this project.

9709308泰勒目前由古生物研究所收藏的标本超过250万件；它们是美国最大的、科学上最重要的无脊椎动物古生物学藏品之一。然而，这些收藏品被允许变质，研究和教育界多年来基本上无法获取。1992年，在国家科学基金会的支持下，开始了一项重大的重组和翻新工作，并在1994年后继续进行。到目前为止，这一努力的主要成果是PRI收藏品的复苏，以及康奈尔大学(CU)无脊椎动物化石和最近的软体动物收藏品转移到PRI。这些藏品的条件和可获得性现在得到了显著改善，使用也相应增加。该奖项将支持这一续展进程的下一阶段。三分之二的CU藏品储存在研究所后院的临时拖车中；这些将被重新安置在新的永久储存设施中，以便使它们再次对科学界有用。PRI的类型和数字收藏以及微化石收藏也将重新安置和管理，为计算机化做准备。在1997年春季，该机构将建造大约4000平方英尺的新收藏空间，作为与国家科学基金会在这一项目上的费用分摊。