The Rectification and Digitization of the Alcala and Brown Philippine Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles, California Academy of Sciences

加州科学院阿尔卡拉和布朗菲律宾两栖爬行动物收藏的校正和数字化

• 批准号: 0447211
• 负责人: Alan Leviton
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0447211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rectification; Digitization; Alcala; Brown; Philippine

A grant has been awarded to the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) under the direction of Dr. Alan E. Leviton for partial support of a project to correct and digitize locality records for the largest collection of amphibian and reptile specimens ever assembled from the Philippines, this largely through the efforts of Drs. Angel C. Alcala and the late Walter C. Brown. Extensive transcription errors were introduced when the data were transcribed from original field notes to the handwritten catalog ledgers. The data, containing errors from these ledgers, were later entered into the Academy's Department of Herpetology's computerized database. Consequently, these erroneous data have been referenced by scientists, students, and land managers. The purpose of this current NSF-supported project is to review and correct the current database entries to reflect accurately the data contained in the original field notes. This will be done by detailed review and re-entry of the data as they appear in the those notes. The Alcala and Brown specimen-associated data will then be georeferenced (adding latitude and longitude to the original locality) so that they can then be used by computerized geographic information systems (GIS). In addition, the original field notes will be scanned, digitized, and indexed to archive the deteriorating notes, which were most often written on high-acid-content paper, and allow broad Internet access to this rich resource. Other products will include a checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of the Philippines, a distributional checklist of known species from each island, and an annotated catalog of the many new species that are based on the Alcala and Brown collections. The results of the project will allow these important historic records of amphibian and reptile species to be used in studies of biogeography, ecology, biodiversity, conservation planning and habitat assessments, and aid in studies to determine the origin and dispersal of species within the Philippine Archipelago. Researchers, government agencies, and land managers can use the accurate locality and microhabitat data with digital maps to pin-point where each specimen in the Alcala and Brown collection was collected. The digital field notes will also allow access to the original data, which contain more ecological information than incorporated in the computerized catalog. Internet access to the corrected database will allow other institutions, which obtained specimens from Alcala and Brown, to correct and update their records. The Philippine Islands are considered a "biodiversity hotspot" and numerous species are threatened because of habitat alteration. By posting the corrected and georeferenced data and digitized field notes on the Internet these data can be utilized by government and non-government agencies working on conservation efforts. Data from the Alcala and Brown collection will also be used in new public exhibits at CAS to highlight the biodiversity of the Philippines and other areas of southeastern Asia.

在Alan E.博士的指导下，加州科学院（CAS）获得了一笔资助。莱维顿为一个项目提供部分支持，该项目旨在纠正和恢复菲律宾有史以来收集的最大的两栖动物和爬行动物标本的地点记录，这主要是通过Angel C.阿尔卡拉和已故的沃尔特C。布朗 在将数据从原始现场记录转录到手写目录分类账时，出现了大量转录错误。 这些数据，包括这些分类账中的错误，后来被输入到学院爬虫学系的计算机数据库中。 因此，科学家、学生和土地管理者都参考了这些错误的数据。 这个目前由国家科学基金会支助的项目的目的是审查和纠正目前的数据库条目，以准确反映原始实地说明中所载的数据。 这将通过详细审查和重新输入这些注释中出现的数据来完成。 随后将对阿尔卡拉和布朗厄森的相关数据进行地理参照（在原始地点加上纬度和经度），以便计算机化地理信息系统使用。 此外，原始现场记录将被扫描、数字化和索引，以存档最常写在高酸含量纸张上的退化记录，并允许广泛的互联网访问这一丰富的资源。 其他产品将包括菲律宾两栖动物和爬行动物的清单，每个岛屿已知物种的分布清单，以及基于阿尔卡拉和布朗收集的许多新物种的注释目录。该项目的成果将使这些重要的两栖动物和爬行动物物种历史记录能够用于地理学、生态学、生物多样性、保护规划和生境评估研究，并有助于确定菲律宾群岛内物种的起源和扩散的研究。 研究人员、政府机构和土地管理人员可以使用精确的地点和微生境数据以及数字地图来确定阿尔卡拉和布朗收藏中每个标本的采集地点。数字化的野外记录也将允许访问原始数据，其中包含比计算机化目录中包含的更多的生态信息。通过互联网访问更正后的数据库将使从阿尔卡拉和布朗获得标本的其他机构能够更正和更新其记录。 菲律宾群岛被认为是“生物多样性热点”，许多物种因栖息地改变而受到威胁。 通过在互联网上张贴经校正和地理参考的数据以及数字化的野外记录，从事保护工作的政府和非政府机构可以利用这些数据。 来自阿尔卡拉和布朗收集的数据也将用于CAS的新公开展览，以突出菲律宾和东南亚其他地区的生物多样性。