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

一笔赠款已授予位于伯克利的加州大学脊椎动物学博物馆，由C。莫里茨使广泛的辅助和非标本控股（例如，现场记录、图像、录音带、历史信件），供科学研究人员、保护和管理机构、非政府组织和非传统用户（例如，历史学家和艺术家）。 这将通过开发描述这些信息的元数据、将信息数字化以及将信息与MVZ数据模型链接以允许通过网络接口访问来实现。这些辅助材料为标本本身增加了重要价值，本身也很重要。特别是，MVZ收集的实地记录（91，000页）和图像（14，000张照片，底片和35毫米幻灯片）为了解过去世纪环境变化的影响提供了重要资源。该项目还将支持对MVZ的重要鸟类叫声和组织学和细胞核学准备的数字采集，这些都是受到持续腐烂威胁的重要资源。这一努力将提高世界上最大的大学脊椎动物收藏馆之一的标本记录的实用性和价值。对世纪主要MVZ调查的野外记录和图像进行数字化，将有助于系统学家、生态学家和保护生物学家获得这些独特的信息，并有助于我们了解脊椎动物如何对人类造成的景观变化作出反应，以及如何在面对持续的人类压力时保护加州的多样性。MVZ数据模型说明了在广泛的信息概念范围内可能存在的连通性。随着MVZ将其辅助收藏品带到网上，它将更好地服务于其目标，成为有关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。该项目还将为博物馆科学的研究生和本科生提供直接培训，培训结果将支持学校和保护管理社区的推广。

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.