Digitization PEN:Targeted Digitization to Expand and Enhance the PALEONICHES TCN

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的无脊椎动物和植物化石收藏记录了过去150年的地质研究。这400万个化石的年龄范围从前寒武纪到全新世，包括地质时间和地理区域的关键间隔以及某些研究充分的生物。如此庞大的收藏品价值不大，除非这些物品沿着相关的文件、图像和分析数据被数字化，并在全球范围内可供访问。该项目将把这些UT收集的数字数据连接到属于Paleoniches TCN的机构，并最终连接到国家数据资源（iDigBio.org）。已选定的地质“深”时间槽是寒武-奥陶纪、宾夕法尼亚纪和古近纪-新近纪。主要的生物类群是腕足动物、棘皮动物和软体动物。数字记录将把标本的学名与其采集地点和地质时期联系起来。采集地点将被记录在当前和深时地理学中，从而使研究人员能够从不同的“板”配置的角度来检查生物体。高质量的多焦点图像与数字嵌入式尺度将为研究人员提供一个功能图像，可以在开源软件中进行分析。最后的数据资源将为今后对生命史范围广泛的主题进行分析研究提供一个更强大的数据库，这一数据集将使生物体的分布、迁移和灭绝方面的重大全球变化的长期影响可见。利用一个网络界面，将允许移动的平台，这丰富的地质记录将成为研究人员，教育工作者和公众。该项目将为学生提供培训。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。

The invertebrate and plant fossil collections of the University of Texas at Austin document geological research spanning the last 150 years. These four million fossils range in age from Precambrian to the Holocene, encompassing critical intervals of geologic time and geographic areas and certain well-studied organisms. Such huge collections are of little value unless the objects along with related documentation, images, and analytical data are digitized and made globally accessible. This project will connect digital data from these UT collections to institutions that are part of the Paleoniches TCN and ultimately to the national data resource (iDigBio.org). The geologic "deep" time slots that have been selected are the Cambro-Ordovician, Pennsylvanian and Paleogene-Neogene. The major groups of organisms will be brachiopods, echinoderms, and molluscs. The digital record will link the specimen's scientific name to its collection site and geological time period. The collection site will be recorded in current and deep time geography, thus allowing the researcher to examine organisms from the perspective of distinct "plate" configurations. High quality multi-focus imagery with digitally embedded scales will provide researchers with a functional image that can be analyzed in open source software. The final data resource will provide a more robust database for future analytical studies on a broad range of topics within the history of life.This data set will make visible long-term effects of major global changes in the distribution, migration, and extinction of organisms. Using a web interface that will allow for mobile platforms, this rich geological record will become available to researchers, educators, and the general public. The project will provide training for students. 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).