Infrastructure upgrade, curation and data basing of Indiana University collections

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将计算机管理数据，改善标本的物理存储和组织，并为印第安纳州大学的古生物学收藏和威廉R。亚当斯动物考古学收藏。 这些收藏品记录了过去生命史的证据，为鉴定化石和考古遗迹提供了比较材料，以及包含1,000多个分类名称的房屋类型标本。 总的来说，估计有250，000个标本收藏。 该项目将更好地保存属于濒危物种的最新骨骼材料，更好地保护化石类型标本，更好地满足科学界的研究需求。该项目将通过改善获得宝贵研究成果的机会，为全球科学界服务。 该项目将为研究生和本科生提供护理，保存，鉴定和解释动物遗骸的实践教育，包括活着的和灭绝的。 它还将为多学科教师，研究生和本科生的研究项目提供机会。 最后，该项目将更好地教育学生和公众关于动物考古学和古生物学对生物多样性，气候变化，进化和地球生物群（包括人类）历史的贡献。 该项目的数据将在http://www.indiana.edu/~palcoll/和http://www.indiana.edu/~zooarch/上提供

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project will computerize curatorial data, improve the physical storage and organization of specimens, and provide on-line availability of information for Indiana University's Paleontological Collection and its William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Collection. These collections document evidence of the past history of life, provide comparative materials for identifying fossil and archaeological remains, and house type specimens that embody more than 1,000 taxonomic names. In total, there are an estimated 250,000 specimens in the collections. The project will better preserve recent skeletal material belonging to endangered species, better secure fossil type specimens, and better serve the research needs of the scientific community.This project will serve the global scientific community by improving access to an invaluable research. The project will provide hands-on education of graduate and undergraduate students in the care, preservation, identification, and interpretation of the remains of animals, both living and extinct. It will also provide opportunities for multidisciplinary faculty, graduate and undergraduate research projects. Finally, the project will better educate students and the general public about the contribution of zooarchaeology and paleontology to knowledge about biodiversity, climate change, evolution, and the history of the earth's biota, including humans. Data from the project will be available at http://www.indiana.edu/~palcoll/ and http://www.indiana.edu/~zooarch/