The Digital Museum: Data Capture and Digitization of MVZ Ancillary Material

在C. Moritz博士的指导下，加州大学伯克利分校脊椎动物博物馆获得了一笔赠款，用于向科学研究人员、保护和管理机构、非政府组织和非传统用户（如历史学家和艺术家）提供广泛的辅助和非标本馆藏（如实地记录、图像、录音带、历史通信）。这将通过开发描述它们的元数据，将信息数字化，并将信息链接到MVZ数据模型以允许通过web接口访问来实现。这些辅助材料为标本本身增加了重要的价值，并且它们本身就很重要。特别是，MVZ收集的实地笔记（91,000页）和图像（14,000张照片，底片，35毫米和幻灯片）为了解过去一个世纪环境变化的影响提供了重要资源。该项目还将支持对重要的鸟类鸣叫和MVZ的组织和核制剂进行数字采集，这些都是面临持续腐烂威胁的重要资源。这项工作将提高世界上最大的脊椎动物大学收藏的标本记录的效用和价值。在过去的半个世纪里，从主要的MVZ调查中获得的实地记录和图像的数字化将有助于系统学家、生态学家和保护生物学家获取这些独特的信息，并有助于我们了解脊椎动物如何应对人类造成的景观变化，以及面对持续的人类压力，如何保护加州的多样性。MVZ数据模型说明了在广泛的信息概念范围内可能实现的连通性。随着MVZ将其辅助馆藏上线，它将更好地实现其作为脊椎动物进化和自然历史以及北美西部物种历史分布信息的关键提供者的目标。该项目还将为研究生和本科生提供博物馆科学方面的直接培训，其成果将支持向学校和保护管理界的推广。

A grant has been awarded to the University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, under the direction of Dr. C. Moritz to make the extensive ancillary and non-specimen holdings (e.g., field notes, images, sound tapes, historical correspondence) available to scientific researchers, conservation and management agencies, NGO's, and non-traditional users (e.g., historians and artists). This will be accomplished through developing metadata describing them, digitizing the information, and linking the information to the MVZ data model to allow for access through a web interface. These ancillary materials add significant value to the specimens themselves and are important in their own right. In particular, the MVZ collection of field notes ( 91,000 pages) and images ( 14,000 photographs, negatives, and 35mm and lantern slides) provide an important resource for understanding the effects of environmental change over the past century. This project will also support digital capture of the significant collections of bird calls and histological and karyological preparations of MVZ, which are important resources under threat of continuing decay. This effort will enhance the utility and value of specimen records from one of the largest university-based collections of vertebrates in the world. Digitization of field notes and images from the major MVZ surveys of the 1 st half century will facilitate access to this unique information by systematists, ecologists and conservation biologists, and contribute to our understanding of how vertebrates have responded to human-wrought changes in the landscape and what might be done to protect the diversity of California in the face of continuing human pressure. The MVZ data model illustrates the connectivity that is possible across a broad conceptual range of information. As MVZ bring its ancillary collections online, it will better serve its goal as a key provider of information about vertebrate evolution and natural history and about historical distributions of species in western North America. The project also will provide direct training of graduate and undergraduate students in museum science, and the results will support outreach to schools and the conservation management community.