Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography - Creating a PALEONICHES-TCN

数字化 TCN：协作研究：数字化化石以实现生物地理学中的新合成 - 创建 PALEONICHES-TCN

• 批准号: 1206757
• 负责人: Bruce Lieberman
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1206757&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; Digitizing

Museum collections of fossils, along with their associated locality data, provide millions of records representing data on the temporal and geographic distribution of species in deep time. However, to reach their greatest scientific potential, these collections data need to be available on-line and in a format that facilitates quantitative biogeographic analyses. We will enter information about the age and precise location of fossil specimens from parts of several key paleontological collections into electronic databases. During this process improvements to computer programs for collections will be enhanced to allow paleontological specimens to be integrated with modern specimen data, thereby benefiting research on distribution of organisms over time. Our efforts will digitize nearly 450,000 specimens belonging to 900 species from several museums throughout the U.S. and will focus on three different time periods in the history of life: the Ordovician, Pennsylvanian, and Neogene. We will create on line digital atlases illustrating and describing these fossils and providing maps showing where they can be found. We will also create an 'app' so these atlases can be used on handheld devices out in the field.The museum collections and fossils provide large amounts of data useful for studying what causes species to migrate, go extinct, or evolve over long time periods. They are of great relevance for considering how global change has and will continue to affect life on this planet. Our study will make these data available on line and accessible to scientists, facilitating many scientific analyses. The on-line and portable device digital atlases will be useful for educating amateur paleontologists and K-12 students about fossils both in classrooms and in the field. We will also provide training to students and scholars. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).

化石的博物馆集合以及它们相关的位置数据提供了数百万记录，这些记录代表了有关深层物种时间和地理分布的数据。但是，为了发挥其最大的科学潜力，这些收集数据需要在线和以促进定量生物地理分析的格式可用。我们将输入有关从几个关键的古生物学收集部分中的化石标本的年龄和精确位置的信息，以作为电子数据库。 在此过程中，将增强计算机程序的计算机程序，以允许古生物学标本与现代标本数据集成，从而使有关生物分布的研究随着时间的推移而受益。我们的努力将数字化来自美国几个博物馆的近450,000个标本，并将重点放在生活史上的三个不同时期：奥陶纪，宾夕法尼亚州和新金元。我们将在数字地图集上创建，以说明和描述这些化石，并提供地图，以显示它们可以找到的位置。我们还将创建一个“应用程序”，以便这些图像可以在现场的手持设备上使用。博物馆的收藏品和化石提供了大量数据，可用于研究什么导致物种在长时间内迁移，灭绝或进化的东西。 它们与考虑全球变化的发展如何并将继续影响这个星球上的生命有很大意义。 我们的研究将使这些数据在线上可用，科学家可以访问，从而促进许多科学分析。 在线和便携式设备数字地图集将有助于对业余古生物学家和K-12学生进行有关教室和现场化石的有关化石的教育。 我们还将为学生和学者提供培训。 该奖项是通过推进生物收集计划的数字化数字化生物收集资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。