Digitization PEN: Field Museum of Natural History Partnership with the Southwest Collection of Arthropods Network

数字化 PEN：菲尔德自然历史博物馆与西南节肢动物收藏网络合作

• 批准号: 1802353
• 负责人: Petra Sierwald
• 金额: $ 16.35万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1802353&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Field; Museum; Natural

Arthropods play a major role in shaping the ecosystems of the southwestern United States and around the world. Arthropod research collections housed in museums and universities contain key data for studying these roles. Collections data can be used in ecological studies and to produce identification tools, but for many collections these data are hidden away on specimen labels and in field notes. The Southwest Collection of Arthropods Network (SCAN) was established to improve accessibility of collections like these, with a goal to capturing the data written on 750,000 arthropod specimen labels, allowing researchers to explore how arthropods shape the ecosystems of the southwest and how they respond natural and anthropogenic change. This Partner to Existing Networks (PEN) award to the Field Museum will enhance SCAN through the addition of label data from over 100,000 beetle specimens of SCAN target taxa, representing 860 species. Beyond the scientific value of the data will contributed to SCAN, this project will take advantage of the Field Museum's strong history in public outreach and status in the Chicago community to support informal educational opportunities focused on ground-dwelling arthropods both locally and across the globe.This PEN project will make available the ecological, distributional, and morphological data from four beetle families for which the Field Museum has large, historical holdings: The darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae), the ant loving beetles (Pselaphinae), the feather-wing beetles (Ptiliidae) and the ironclad beetles (Zopheridae). The project will enhance the SCAN dataset by addressing critical taxonomic and distributional gaps. The Field Museum's collection of 60,000 Pselaphinae specimens, a group whose evolutionary history is deeply intertwined the ants (another target taxon), is the most comprehensive and heavily-researched collection of these beetles in the world. It is rich with type specimens (120 primary types), associated field notes, ecological data, and undescribed taxa, yet these data are still not digitally available. The project team will implement a workflow that involves 1) imaging and transcribing data from all labels on 100,000 selected specimens and adding the data added to the Field Museum's EMu database, 2) imaging all North American primary types for target taxa, 3) georeferencing all southwestern collection localities in the Field Museum Insect Collection database, 4) making these data available through the SCAN portal, GBIF, and iDigBio (idigbio.org) data portals, and 5) augmenting current digitization workflows at the Field Museum to leverage the intern and volunteer contributions and sustain digitization through establishment of a highly trained team of digitization volunteers and interns.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

节肢动物在塑造美国西南部和世界各地的生态系统方面发挥着重要作用。 博物馆和大学中的节肢动物研究收藏包含了研究这些角色的关键数据。 采集数据可用于生态学研究和制作鉴定工具，但对于许多采集来说，这些数据隐藏在标本标签和野外记录中。西南节肢动物网络收集（SCAN）的建立是为了提高这些收集的可访问性，目标是捕获写在750，000节肢动物标本标签上的数据，使研究人员能够探索节肢动物如何塑造西南部的生态系统以及它们如何应对自然和人为变化。 这个合作伙伴现有网络（PEN）奖给菲尔德博物馆将加强扫描通过增加标签数据从超过100,000甲虫标本的扫描目标类群，代表860个物种。 除了将有助于SCAN的数据的科学价值之外，该项目还将利用菲尔德博物馆在公共宣传方面的强大历史和在芝加哥社区的地位，以支持当地和地球仪的非正式教育机会。以及菲尔德博物馆拥有大量历史藏品的四个甲虫家族的形态学数据：黑暗甲虫（拟步甲科），蚂蚁爱好者甲虫（Pselaphinae），羽翅甲虫（Ptiliidae）和铁甲甲虫（Zopheridae）。 该项目将通过解决关键的分类和分布差距来加强SCAN数据集。 菲尔德博物馆收藏了60，000件Pselaphinae标本，这是一个进化历史与蚂蚁（另一个目标分类群）深深交织在一起的群体，是世界上最全面和最深入研究的甲虫收藏。 它包含丰富的模式标本（120个主要类型）、相关的野外记录、生态数据和未描述的分类群，但这些数据仍然无法以数字方式提供。 项目团队将实施一个工作流程，包括1）对100，000个选定标本的所有标签进行成像和转录数据，并将数据添加到菲尔德博物馆的EMU数据库中，2）对目标分类群的所有北美主要类型进行成像，3）在菲尔德博物馆昆虫收藏数据库中对所有西南收藏地点进行地理参考，4）通过SCAN门户网站提供这些数据，GBIF和iDigBio（idigbio.org）数据门户网站，以及5）增强菲尔德博物馆当前的数字化工作流程，以利用实习生和志愿者的贡献，并通过建立一支训练有素的数字化志愿者和实习生团队来维持数字化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。