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

无脊椎动物化石收藏品拥有数以百万计的标本，记录了地球上生命多样性和进化的历史。耶鲁皮博迪博物馆（YPM）中超过123，000件具有历史意义的重要标本将被记录在一个数据库中，其中包括识别，地质年龄和化石收集的位置。该数据库与来自合作博物馆和参与Paleoniches Thematic Collections Network的博物馆的类似数据库相结合，将显示数亿年来动物生活的地方，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，教授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，使研究人员能够在地图上查看对象并分析数据，来建立化石收集地点的数据库。这些地图，沿着一些最重要的化石的信息，将成为公共展览区使用的多媒体教育车的一部分。该项目将依靠雇用本科生工作者，他们将获得科学和博物馆收藏研究的经验。它还将为YPM EVOLUTIONS计划（NSF GEO1108086：轨道1：GEOPATH：促进高等教育发展的地球科学教育机会）的两名学生提供实习机会，这是一项针对康涅狄格州纽黑文市服务不足的高中生的课后计划。该奖项是作为国家资源的一部分，通过推进生物收藏品数字化计划的生物收藏品的数字化，从这个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).