Digitization PEN: Ground-dwelling Insects in the Brigham Young University Collection, Enhancement to SCAN

数字化 PEN：杨百翰大学收藏的地面昆虫，SCAN 的增强

• 批准号: 1408607
• 负责人: Shawn Clark
• 金额: $ 16.7万
• 依托单位: Brigham Young University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1408607&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Ground; dwelling; Insects

Activities in this project will result in the databasing of 52,300 insect specimens from the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University (BYU). The BYU collection is the largest insect collection west of the Great Plains and east of the Pacific coast. Many of the BYU specimens were collected in the first half of the 20th century, and they therefore contribute a great deal of legacy data critical for scientific studies. It preserves a wealth of information on distributions and habits of important species, including agricultural pests, medically important species, threatened and endangered species, and beneficial species such as pollinators. This information will be made widely accessible by cataloguing and photographing specimens and then publishing the results on the Web. The project will provide an outstanding mentored experience for numerous students, including those traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. In addition, the project will result in an interactive museum display to teach basic principles in the change of organismal distributions over time. The insect collection at Brigham Young University (BYU) joins the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) in creating an extensive, Web-accessible catalogue of museum specimens. Project activities include: (1) Capturing collecting and identification data from 52,000 previously uncatalogued ground-dwelling arthropod specimens from the BYU collection representing the four focal insect families in SCAN: Acrididae, Carabidae, Tenebrionidae, and Formicidae. (2) Georeferencing specimen localities contributed to SCAN, utilizing GEOLocate and other resources, and upgrading fading locality labels on legacy specimens with archival quality labels. (3) Producing high-resolution images of type specimens of all ground-dwelling arthropod species whose type material is housed at BYU. (4) Contributing to SCAN's synthetic regional database to promote accessible, well-structured, taxonomically sound data for modeling climate change impacts on species distributions, and thereby enhancing SCAN's remote specimen annotation and identification workflows. 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) portals.

该项目的活动将导致从蒙特L.杨百翰大学（Brigham Young University）的Bean Life Science Museum。 杨百翰大学的收藏是大平原以西和太平洋沿岸以东最大的昆虫收藏。杨百翰大学的许多标本是在世纪上半叶收集的，因此它们为科学研究提供了大量重要的遗产数据。它保存了大量关于重要物种的分布和习性的信息，包括农业害虫、医学上重要的物种、受威胁和濒危物种以及传粉者等有益物种。这些信息将通过对标本进行编目和拍照，然后在网上公布结果，使人们能够广泛获得。该项目将为众多学生提供出色的指导经验，包括那些传统上在科学领域代表性不足的学生。 此外，该项目还将产生一个互动式博物馆展示，以教授生物分布随时间变化的基本原理。 杨百翰大学（BYU）的昆虫收藏品加入了节肢动物网络（SCAN）的西南收藏品，创建了一个广泛的，可通过网络访问的博物馆标本目录。项目活动包括：（1）从杨百翰大学收集的52,000个以前未编目的地面节肢动物标本中采集和鉴定数据，这些标本代表了SCAN中的四个重点昆虫科：蝗科、步甲科、拟步甲科和蚁科。(2)地理参考标本地点有助于扫描，利用地理定位和其他资源，并升级褪色的地方标签与档案质量标签的遗产标本。(3)制作高分辨率图像的所有地面居住的节肢动物物种的模式标本，其类型材料被安置在杨百翰大学。(4)为SCAN的综合区域数据库做出贡献，以促进可访问的，结构良好的，分类学上合理的数据，用于模拟气候变化对物种分布的影响，从而加强SCAN的远程标本注释和识别工作流程。 该奖项是通过推进生物标本数字化计划作为国家生物标本数字化资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）门户网站提供。