Computerization of Newly Acquired Tropical and Subtropical Mollusk Collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History

在Paulay和Thompson博士的指导下，佛罗里达自然历史博物馆（FLMNH，佛罗里达大学）获得了一笔赠款，用于管理、建立数据库并在网上提供过去十年收到的几个重要的软体动物收藏品。其中包括与策展和研究人员相关的研究收藏以及来自迈阿密大学和杜兰大学的两个主要放弃收藏。这些收藏品是100种出版物的来源，拥有500种主要类型，并受到研究和保护社区以及业余贝壳爱好者的需求。 目前，FLMNH拥有美国第七大软体动物收藏，拟议项目完成后，编目数量将增加到估计420，000个，全部可在线获取。此外，过去基于FLMNH的调查的所有台站数据也将进行地理参考，因此至少有150 000个在线地段将有相关的坐标数据。 该收藏已经是世界上最大的新热带和东南亚陆地蜗牛以及热带西大西洋软体动物收藏之一。 拟议增加的内容与现有的区域动物群以及新热带区、东南亚和热带岛屿陆生蜗牛和与珊瑚礁有关的软体动物收藏的重点相同。 该项目的目标是对所获得的收藏品进行妥善安置、地理参照和数据库化，以确保其保存、可用性和实用性。大约92，300个标本批次（每个批次由一个到多个标本组成），这些标本已被加入，但工人仍然无法进入，将被策展。 还将管理正在进行的生物多样性清单和捐赠。 将每个批次拆开包装，置于存档容器中，并将相关数据输入采集数据库，包括采集地点的坐标，如果标本标签上未注明，则将进行查找。将生成样本标签，并将每个批次保存在形成的样本集中。 与每一批有关的数据也将通过FLMNH的网站以及国际网络，如“物种分析”和“生命绘图仪”，在互联网上提供。 该项目的最大意义将是为软体动物开发世界上最大的生物多样性资源之一，软体动物是仅次于节肢动物的第二大动物门。 该项目的直接影响将是世界上第二大互联网访问软体动物数据库的在线记录增加29%，以及150，000个地理参考批次的可用性，这可能是最大的软体动物地理参考资源。该项目将大大增加FLMNH已经很大的软体动物资源的规模、可用性和效用。FLMNH软体动物学将成为世界上最大的大学软体动物收藏之一，对新获得的收藏品的管理支持将吸引和培训学生进行系统的软体动物学和生物多样性研究。拟议的项目将尽可能多地让学生参与策展助理，这将使学生有机会在赚取工资的同时从事策展和系统性工作，并使他们接触到博物馆一个活跃的研究小组的工作。

A grant has been awarded to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH, University of Florida) under the direction of Drs. Paulay and Thompson to curate, database, and make available online several important mollusk collections received in the past decade. These include the research collection associated with the curatorial and research staff as well two major relinquished collections from the University of Miami and Tulane University. These collections have been the source of 100 publications, hold 500 primary types, and are in demand by the research and conservation communities as well as by amateur shell enthusiasts. Currently FLMNH has the 7th largest mollusk collection in the US and after the completion of the proposed project will grow to an estimated 420,000 catalogued lots, all available online. In addition, all station data from past FLMNH-based surveys will also be georeferenced, so that at least 150,000 of the lots available online will have associated coordinate data. The collection is already among the largest in the world for Neotropical and Southeast Asian land snails and tropical west Atlantic mollusks. The proposed additions share the emphasis of the existing collection on the regional fauna, as well as Neotropical, Southeast Asian and tropical insular land snails, and reef-associated mollusks. The goals of this project are to properly house, georeference and database the acquired collections to assure their conservation, availability and utility. Approximately 92,300 specimen lots (each comprised of one to many specimens), that have been accessioned but have remained inaccessible to workers, will be curated. Ongoing biodiversity inventories and donations will also be curated. Each lot will be unpacked, housed in archival containers and associated data entered into the collection database, including coordinates of collecting locality, which will be looked up if not indicated on the specimen label. Specimen labels will be generated and each lot housed in the formed collection. Data associated with each lot will also be made available over the internet through FLMNH's web site as well as through international networks such as "The Species Analyst" and "Life Mapper". The greatest significance of this project will be the development of one of the largest biodiversity resources in the world for the Mollusca, the second largest phylum of animals after the Arthropoda. The immediate impact of this project will be a 29% increase in online records at the second largest internet-accessible mollusk database in the world, together with the availability of 150,000 georeferenced lots, potentially the largest georeferenced resource on mollusks. The project will substantially increase the size, availability and utility of FLMNH's already large mollusk holdings. The FLMNH Malacology will become one the largest university-based mollusk collection in the world and the support for curation of the newly acquired collection will act to both attract and train students in systematic malacology and biodiversity studies. The proposed project will involve students to as great an extent as possible as Curatorial Assistants which will afford students the opportunity to engage in curatorial and systematic work while earning a salary, and also exposes them to the workings of an active research group at the museum.