Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a greater scientific understanding of our urban world

合作研究：数字化 TCN：大西洋中部大都市：对我们的城市世界有更深入的科学理解

• 批准号: 1601503
• 负责人: Tatyana Livshultz
• 金额: $ 62.69万
• 依托单位: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1601503&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Digitization; TCN; Mid

In light of the increasingly urban future of our planet, a thorough understanding of the biological processes at work in urban areas is necessary for the continued survival of Earth's inhabitants, including humans. The first step in that understanding is to know what thrives, survives, or perishes in cities, now and in the past. The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) Project begins this study by looking at vascular plants, with the digitization of roughly 700,000 herbarium specimens from eleven institutions, including public and private universities, state agencies, arboreta, museums, and botanic gardens, in the urban corridor from New York City to Washington, D.C. As the largest, oldest, and most populated urban corridor in the U.S., this area and its flora present a unique opportunity for the study of urbanization, particularly given its rich herbarium collections, containing specimens collected over the last 400 years. The data mobilized in this effort will help us achieve a better scientific understanding of living urban systems, a critical need for urban planners, restoration ecologists, environmental engineers, (landscape) architects, and conservationists engaged in creating more sustainable and better designed cities, including the constructed and restored natural environments of our urban areas.Digitization of each specimen in the MAM Project will result in a high resolution image, a databased record of collection metadata, and a georeferenced point, all of which will be made publicly available online. Building on already successful regional programs, the MAM Project will partner with schools, universities, botanical clubs, and the general public to crowd source databasing efforts and to recruit citizen scientists to help build urban floras online, enabling not only increased digitization efficiency, but educational and research opportunities as well. The MAM Project also includes new developments for data cleaning and standardization in Symbiota, which will expedite the use of digitized specimen data for research, and new reporting features which will advance digitization workflow and project management. 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).

鉴于我们地球上越来越多的城市未来，对城市地区工作中的生物学过程的彻底了解对于包括人类在内的地球居民的持续生存是必要的。这种理解的第一步是知道什么是现在和过去的城市中的繁荣，生存或灭亡。大西洋中部大都市（MAM）项目通过查看血管植物开始了这项研究，大约有700,000种来自公立和私立大学的机构，包括公立和私立大学，州机构，植物园，植物园，博物馆，博物馆和植物园中的纽约州哥伦比亚特和库里斯特郡的库里斯特（Corry）的摩尔里群岛，包括公立和私立大学，包括公立和私立大学，包括公立和私立大学，包括公立和私立大学，包括公立和私立大学，大约70万种制剂的标本标本标本。在美国，该地区及其植物群为研究城市化提供了独特的机会，尤其是考虑到其丰富的植物标本室收藏，其中包含过去400年来收集的标本。这项工作中动员的数据将帮助我们对生活城市系统的更好科学理解，对城市规划师，恢复生态学家，环境工程师，（景观）建筑师以及保护者的批判性需求，以及创建更可持续和设计的城市的保护主义者，包括我们城市的构建和恢复的构建的图像量，以构建的自然环境成果。元数据和一个地理参与点，所有这些都将在线公开提供。在已经成功的区域计划的基础上，MAM项目将与学校，大学，植物俱乐部和公众合作，以众群体来源的数据表来提供数据，并招募公民科学家，以帮助在线建立城市植物园，不仅可以提高数字化效率，还可以提高教育和研究机会。 MAM项目还包括用于Symbiota中数据清洁和标准化的新开发项目，该开发将加快使用数字化标本数据进行研究，以及将推进数字化工作流程和项目管理的新报告功能。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏计划数字化对生物收集数字化的国家资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。