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，记录了地球上生命多样性和进化史。耶鲁大学皮博迪博物馆(YPM)中超过123,000个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。该数据库与合作博物馆和参与古生物主题收藏网络的类似数据库相结合，将显示数亿年来动物生活在哪里，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来建立化石收集地点的数据库，该基础设施允许研究人员在地图上查看对象并分析数据。这些地图，以及一些最重要的化石的信息，将成为多媒体教育车的一部分，用于公共展区。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收藏品研究的经验。它还将为YPM进化计划(NSF GEO1108086：Track 1：GEOPATH：Geoscience Education Opportunities Promoting to Higher Education)的两名学生提供实习机会，这是一个针对康涅狄格州纽黑文地区未得到充分服务的高中生的课后计划。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。

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).