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

在C.Moritz博士的指导下，向加州大学伯克利分校脊椎动物博物馆提供了一笔赠款，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收藏(如田野笔记、图像、录音带、历史函件)。这将通过开发描述它们的元数据、将信息数字化并将信息与MVZ数据模型联系起来以允许通过网络界面进行访问来实现。这些辅助材料为标本本身增加了显著的价值，本身也很重要。特别是，MVZ收集的实地笔记(91,000页)和图像(14,000张照片、底片和35 mm幻灯片和灯笼幻灯片)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MVZ的大量鸟类叫声和组织和核子学准备的数字捕获，这些都是面临持续腐烂威胁的重要资源。这一努力将提高来自世界上最大的大学脊椎动物收藏之一的标本记录的实用性和价值。将第一个半世纪主要MVZ调查的野外笔记和图像数字化，将有助于系统学家、生态学家和保护生物学家获取这一独特的信息，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，以及在持续的人类压力下，可以采取什么措施来保护加州的多样性。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接。随着MVZ将其辅助收藏上线，它将更好地实现其目标，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的主要信息提供者。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，其成果将支持与学校和保护管理界的外联活动。

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.