Geoinformatics: Leveraging the Paleobiology Database for Research, Education, Mentorship, and Interoperability

地理信息学：利用古生物学数据库进行研究、教育、指导和互操作性

• 批准号: 0949416
• 负责人: Shanan Peters
• 金额: $ 68.66万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0949416&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geoinformatics; Leveraging; Paleobiology; Database; Research

The Paleobiology Database has been its field's main driver of macroevolutionaryresearch over the last decade. It has yielded major insights into local- to global-scale changes in biodiversity, the consequences of mass extinctions, the ecological impacts of environmental change, and the geological processes that structure the fossil record. This kind of research is the only concrete basis for predicting the long-term effects of current global change on nature. At the same time, the PaleoDB has served as an important teaching tool for university programs and a primary gateway into the literature for the paleobiological community. Over the past decade its 222 contributors have assembled 30,121references to publications, 808,807 taxonomic occurrence records, and 262,909 opinions on the classification of 120,842 taxa. Its website features an array of data entry, query,download, and analysis tools. It is integrated with GBIF and CHRONOS and offers several web services. It is governed by a 16-member Advisory Board that includes both contributors and representatives from allied organizations.The PaleoDB's activities have resulted in 101 official publications written by 51 different senior authors, and it is cited as a reference on more than 3000 Wikipedia pages. It was singled out as an essential resource in the report of the 2006 Future Research Directions in Paleontology workshop and has since received limited funding from three major paleontological societies for its educational activities. Mirroring on three websites and baseline administrative and technical support has continued through a volunteer effort, but substantive development of new infrastructure is needed. Goals of this project include enhancement of web services for use of large-scale portals such as the Encyclopedia of Life; exchange of data with cognate databases such as the Fossil Record File and TreeBASE; integration with PaleoPortal and individual museum collection databases; and creation of new tools and data tables involving phylogenetics, stratigraphy, geochronology, and geochemistry. These enhancements will, for example, make it possible for geologists to access dynamically integrated information on stratigraphic sections, or for biologists to quickly and reliably calibrate molecularclocks.

在过去的十年里，古生物学数据库一直是该领域宏观进化研究的主要驱动力。它对生物多样性的地方到全球范围的变化、大规模灭绝的后果、环境变化的生态影响以及构成化石记录的地质过程产生了重要的见解。这种研究是预测当前全球变化对自然的长期影响的唯一具体依据。与此同时，PaleoDB已经成为大学课程的重要教学工具，也是古生物学界进入文献的主要门户。在过去的十年里，它的222名贡献者收集了30，121篇出版物参考文献，808，807个分类学发生记录，以及262，909个关于120，842个分类群的分类意见。其网站提供了一系列数据输入、查询、下载和分析工具。它与GBIF和CHRONOS集成，并提供多种网络服务。PaleoDB由16名成员组成的顾问委员会管理，其中包括贡献者和来自联盟组织的代表。PaleoDB的活动导致了51位不同的高级作者撰写的101篇官方出版物，并被3000多个维基百科页面引用为参考。2006年古生物学未来研究方向研讨会的报告将其列为重要资源，此后，三个主要古生物学会为其教育活动提供了有限的资金。通过志愿人员的努力，继续在三个网站上建立镜像，并提供基线行政和技术支助，但需要大力发展新的基础设施。该项目的目标包括：加强网络服务，以供大型门户网站使用，如《生命百科全书》;与同源数据库交换数据，如《化石记录文件》和TreeBASE;与PaleoPortal和各博物馆收藏数据库整合;以及创建涉及生物遗传学、地层学、地质年代学和地球化学的新工具和数据表。例如，这些增强功能将使地质学家能够访问地层剖面的动态综合信息，或使生物学家能够快速可靠地校准分子断层。