Digitization PEN: Increasing the Robustness of the Ordovician and Pennsylvanian Dataset of PALEONICHES-TCN

无脊椎动物化石收藏有数百万个标本，记录了地球上生命的多样性和进化历史。耶鲁皮博迪博物馆（YPM）中超过12.3万件具有重要历史意义的标本将被记录在一个数据库中，其中包括鉴定、地质年代和化石收集地点。该数据库与来自合作博物馆和旧石器时代主题收藏网络的类似数据库相结合，将显示动物在数亿年的过程中生活的地方，并帮助我们了解长期气候变化如何影响它们的分布。YPM将举办一个研讨会，教其他专业人员如何通过创建一个集成的数据管理基础设施来建立化石收集地点的数据库，使研究人员能够在地图上查看物体并分析数据。这些地图，连同一些最重要的化石的信息，将成为多媒体教育车的一部分，在公共展览区使用。该项目将依赖于雇用本科生工作人员，他们将获得科学和博物馆藏品研究的经验。它还将为YPM evolution项目（NSF GEO1108086: Track 1: GEOPATH：促进高等教育进步的地球科学教育机会）的两名学生提供实习机会，该项目是为康涅狄格州纽黑文地区服务不足的高中生提供的课后项目。该奖项是国家生物馆藏数字化资源的一部分，通过推进生物馆藏数字化计划，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。

Invertebrate fossil collections hold millions of specimens that record the history of diversity and evolution of life on earth. Over 123,000 historically important specimens in the Yale Peabody Museum (YPM) will be recorded in a database with identification, geologic age, and the location of where the fossils were collected. The database, combined with similar databases from collaborating museums and those involved with the Paleoniches Thematic Collections Network, will show where animals lived over the course of hundreds of million years and help us understand how long-term climate change affected their distribution over time. YPM will hold a workshop to teach other professionals how to database fossil collection locations through creation of an integrated data management infrastructure that allows researchers to view the objects on a map and analyze data. Those maps, along with information about some of the most important fossils, will become part of a multimedia educational cart for use in public exhibition areas. This project will rely on employment of undergraduate student workers who will gain experience in scientific and museum collections research. It will also provide internships for two students in the YPM EVOLUTIONS program (NSF GEO1108086: Track 1: GEOPATH: Geoscience Educational Opportunities Promoting Advancement to Higher Education), an afterschool program for underserved high school students from the New Haven, CT region. 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).