Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Documenting marine biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate collections (DigIn)

数字化 TCN：合作研究：通过无脊椎动物收藏数字化记录海洋生物多样性 (DigIn)

• 批准号: 2001540
• 负责人: James Hanken
• 金额: $ 19.03万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; Documenting

For two centuries, America has amassed an unparalleled collection of specimens from exploring the world's oceans. They were pulled up with nets, scooped up from seabeds with grabs, and hand-collected by divers, all contributing to a library of biodiversity that captures the state of life in the ocean - year after year, decade after decade. The broadest evolutionary scope of those collections is in the marine invertebrates, animals without backbones - sea stars, corals, worms, jellyfish, crabs, and thousands of other animals. That library of preserved marine invertebrates is our essential guide to the diversity of ocean life across the globe. And because they encapsulate data from the moment they were picked up, these institutional collections also act as a time machine, letting us use the past to understand how our present will become the future. But there is a problem - vast numbers of these specimens are essentially invisible outside of a tiny community of museum specialists. The only record of these specimens' existence is on labels enclosed in the jars with the preserved animals or in paper logbooks on a shelf. These specimens will remain nearly undiscoverable on museum shelves until their core descriptive information is made digitally available. Therefore, this project will create public digital records for over 7.5 million specimens from our nation's legacy of marine exploration, thereby making the immense investment in the specimens' acquisition available to 21st Century biodiversity and ecosystems research. Because these specimens provide a visible and tangible window into our oceans' enchanting biodiversity, this project will involve STEM educators and student educators in the digitization effort, so that they will be able to reflect their science experiences directly back to the classroom. The public will be involved virtually, by contributing transcription of specimen label data. Digitization of alcohol-preserved marine specimens has never been carried out on this scale. A major challenge lies in the location of the data: written, typed, or printed on labels in the jars with the specimens. In many cases, that will require opening the jar, extracting the label, and either transcribing it directly or photographing it for later transcription - for hundreds of thousands of jars. The immediate participants in this program will digitize most or all of the marine invertebrate collections at nineteen institutions across the country, more than doubling the number of digital records for marine invertebrates in the U.S. All data will be publicly available through existing data portals, including iDigBio.org, using standardized data formats, thereby dramatically enhancing the accessibility of biodiversity data for comprehensive, systems-based analysis of ocean ecosystems.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.

两个世纪以来，美国在探索世界海洋的过程中积累了无与伦比的标本。它们被渔网打捞上来，用抓取的方式从海床上捞起，由潜水员手工收集，所有这些都有助于建立一个生物多样性图书馆，捕捉海洋中的生命状态-年复一年，十年又十年。这些物种最广泛的进化范围是海洋无脊椎动物，即没有脊椎的动物--海星、珊瑚、蠕虫、水母、螃蟹和数以千计的其他动物。这个保存完好的海洋无脊椎动物图书馆是我们了解全球海洋生物多样性的重要指南。因为它们从数据被提取的那一刻起就封装了数据，这些机构收集也充当了一台时光机，让我们利用过去来了解我们的现在将如何成为未来。但有一个问题--这些标本中的大部分基本上在博物馆专家的一个小社区之外是看不见的。这些标本存在的唯一记录是贴在装有保存动物的罐子里的标签上，或者放在架子上的纸质航海日志上。这些标本将在博物馆的货架上几乎找不到，直到它们的核心描述性信息数字化。因此，该项目将为我国海洋勘探遗产中的超过750万个标本创建公共数字记录，从而使获取标本的巨额投资可用于21世纪的生物多样性和生态系统研究。由于这些标本为了解海洋迷人的生物多样性提供了一个看得见、摸得着的窗口，该项目将让STEM教育工作者和学生教育工作者参与数字化工作，以便他们能够将他们的科学经验直接反映到课堂上。公众将通过对标本标签数据的转录做出贡献，虚拟地参与进来。酒精保存的海洋标本的数字化从未如此大规模地进行过。一个主要的挑战在于数据的位置：写入、打印或打印在与标本一起的罐子中的标签上。在许多情况下，这将需要打开瓶子，提取标签，然后直接转录或拍摄下来供以后转录--用于数十万瓶。该计划的直接参与者将把美国19个机构的大部分或所有海洋无脊椎动物收藏数字化，使美国海洋无脊椎动物数字记录的数量增加一倍以上。所有数据将通过现有的数据门户网站公开，包括iDigBio.org，使用标准化的数据格式，从而极大地增强对海洋生态系统的全面、基于系统的分析的生物多样性数据的可获得性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust 2022 Field Season

海洋探索新领域：海洋探索信托基金 2022 年实地考察季

• DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2023.s2
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Oceanography
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Baldinger, A. J.