Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals

设立一个专题收集网络，使与实物凭证样本有关的媒体记录数字化并可供查阅，广泛围绕了解通信信号的演变和生态这一研究主题进行组织。对这些问题的研究受到了信号记录及其相关物理标本相对难以获取的挑战。该项目将通过将多个生物研究收藏和世界上最大的动物信号记录科学档案Macaulay自然声音图书馆合作来应对这一挑战。这些机构将共同管理和提供鸟类、青蛙、鱼和昆虫通信信号的数字化和有凭证记录，并将在实物凭证标本及其数字化记录之间建立直接和透明的收集联系。该项目将提供动物信号的数字音频录音，可用于解决一系列科学问题，包括动物对人为噪音和其他人类活动的反应。通过提供一个有用的共同保管系统并鼓励与实物标本一起收集录音，该项目将对研究人员今后收集和使用生物标本的方式产生革命性的影响，并将为面临类似共同保管挑战的收藏提供一个有用的模式。该项目还将为所有年龄段的广泛教育宣传提供材料，并将产生重大的保护影响，因为数字化材料将直接有助于我们评估和监测生物多样性的能力。最后，该项目将扩大生物收藏方法，并帮助培训博物馆馆长、收藏家和研究人员的“下一代”。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分颁发的，由该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)获得。

An award is made to establish a thematic collection network that will digitize and make accessible media recordings associated with physical voucher specimens, broadly organized around the research theme of understanding the evolution and ecology of communication signals. Research on these questions has been challenged by the relative inaccessibility of the signal recordings and their associated physical specimens. This project will meet this challenge by partnering together multiple biological research collections and the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, the world's largest scientific archive of animal signal recordings. Collectively, these institutions will co-curate and make accessible digitized and vouchered recordings of the communication signals of birds, frogs, fish and insects, and will establish direct and transparent links across collections between physical voucher specimens and their digitized recordings. This project will make accessible digital audio recordings of animal signals that can be used to address a host of scientific questions, including the responses of animals to anthropogenic noise and other human activities. By providing a useful co-curation system and encouraging collection of recordings along with physical specimens, this project will have a transformative influence on the way that researchers collect and use biological specimens in the future, and will serve as a useful model for collections facing similar co-curation challenges. This project will also provide materials for extensive educational outreach at all age levels, and will have significant conservation impacts because the digitized material will contribute directly to our ability to assess and monitor biodiversity. Finally, this project will expand biological collection methods and help train the "next generation" of museum curators, collectors, and researchers. 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).