NMITA (Phase II): Integrating Interactive Identification Keys, Distribution Maps, and Stratigraphic Columns with the Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America WWW Database

NMITA（第二阶段）：将交互式识别码、分布图和地层柱与热带美洲 WWW 数据库的新近纪海洋生物群相集成

• 批准号: 0102544
• 负责人: Ann Budd
• 金额: $ 10.42万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0102544&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NMITA; Phase; II; Integrating; Interactive

Integrating Interactive Identification Keys, Distribution Maps, and Stratigraphic Columns with the Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America WWW DatabaseThe project will continue development of the Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) database, an online biotic database http://nmita.geology.uiowa.edu containing high-quality images and synoptic information on taxa collected as part of several associated multidisciplinary fossil-collecting projects in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. They include the Panama Paleontology Project (coordinated by Jackson and Coates of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) and the Neogene Paleontology of the Northern Dominican Republic Project (coordinated by Jung of the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland). NMITA provides basic information on authorship, synonyms, and type specimens of individual taxa identified in the collections, as well as diagnostic morphologic characters and stratigraphic and geographic occurrences. The website offers online identification keys and illustrated glossaries of morphologic terms, as well as interactive maps and stratigraphic columns for examining occurrences and interpreting distribution patterns.During the original first phase of the project, information was contributed by nine specialists at different institutions in the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, and Panama. A total of ~1300 taxa (~3800 images) belonging to two kingdoms and five animal phyla were included. The taxa consisted of: ~225 corals, ~330 bryozoans, ~350 mollusks, ~100 foraminifera, ~100 ostracodes, and ~230 fish; all except mollusks are at the species level.During the second phase of the project (supported by the present grant), data for ~1300 molluscan taxa and Oligo-Miocene corals will be entered, ongoing data entry for foraminifera and ostracodes will be completed, and remaining static pages for corals and bryozoans will be converted to a new Oracle system. Additional identification keys and morphology/ecology-based search routines will be implemented, and new dynamic maps and columns showing occurrences for individual taxa will be developed. Pilot projects will be performed sharing data with the NCEAS Paleobiology database, specimen databases, and STATPOD. Proper documentation will be developed for the NMITA database project, and made available online so that others could manage the database or develop a similar database elsewhere.When complete, NMITA will provide an image-based inventory of the marine biodiversity of tropical America over the past 25 million years. It will serve as a paleontological databank, accounting for taxa in quantitativeanalyses of diversity through geologic time. It will summarize ongoing systematic research on the fossil marine biota of tropical America and be instrumental in earmarking diverse clades in need of future systematic study. NMITA is unique among paleontological databases in its specimen basis and its emphasis on photographs and illustrations, and it serves as a model for future dissemination of taxonomic data in paleontology.

该项目将继续开发热带美洲新第三纪海洋生物群数据库，这是一个在线生物数据库http://nmita.geology.uiowa.edu，其中载有高质量的图像和分类群的天气信息，这些分类群是在加勒比、中美洲、和南美洲其中包括巴拿马古生物学项目（由史密森热带研究所的杰克逊和科茨协调）和北方多米尼加共和国新第三纪古生物学项目（由瑞士巴塞尔自然历史博物馆的荣格协调）。NMITA提供了作者，同义词，并在集合中确定的个人分类群的模式标本，以及诊断形态特征和地层和地理发生的基本信息。该网站提供了在线识别关键词和形态术语的图解词汇，以及交互式地图和地层柱，用于检查出现情况和解释分布模式。在项目的最初第一阶段，来自美国不同机构的9位专家提供了信息，英国、瑞士和巴拿马。共包括约1300个分类群（约3800张图片），属于两个王国和五个动物门。分类群包括：~225种珊瑚、~330种苔藓虫、~350种软体动物、~100种有孔虫、~100种介形虫和~230种鱼类;除软体动物外，所有动物都处于物种水平。在项目的第二阶段，（由目前的赠款支持），将输入约1300个软体动物分类群和渐新世-中新世珊瑚的数据，将完成正在进行的有孔虫和介形虫数据输入，珊瑚和苔藓虫的剩余静态页面将转换到新的Oracle系统。将实施额外的识别关键词和基于形态学/生态学的搜索程序，并将开发新的动态地图和列，显示个别分类群的出现。试点项目将与NCEAS古生物学数据库、标本数据库和STATPOD共享数据。 将为国家海洋生物多样性信息技术研究所数据库项目编制适当的文件，并在网上提供，以便其他人能够管理该数据库或在其他地方建立类似的数据库，完成后，国家海洋生物多样性信息技术研究所将提供过去2 500万年来热带美洲海洋生物多样性的图像清单。它将作为一个古生物学数据库，在地质时期的多样性定量分析中对分类进行核算。它将总结正在进行的关于热带美洲海洋生物群化石的系统研究，并有助于指定未来需要进行系统研究的各种分支。 NMITA在古生物学数据库中是独一无二的，它的标本基础和对照片和插图的重视，它是未来传播古生物学分类数据的典范。