A comparative database for biologists, botanists, and linguists

该项目创建了一个关于土著动植物和物质文化(如工具和器皿、栅栏和住房、食物和饲料)的语言信息的在线门户网站。由于容易获得大规模生产的现代材料以及商业上可获得的食品和药品，植物学、生物学和传统文化知识正在迅速丧失。这些信息的丢失给生物学家、植物学家和语言学家带来了巨大的知识鸿沟。这个多学科项目记录、保存和传播生物学、植物学、文化和语言知识，以便用于进一步的研究。研究人员提供跨学科的专业知识，使用文献语言学方法(记录、转录、翻译、词典分析)以及土著学者、植物学家和生物学家的分析和评论创建土著知识数据库。这个项目的一个特别有影响力的方面是共同创建一个数据库，使参与者对植物、动物和物质文化的命名保持一致。该项目计划通过一个开放源码的内容管理系统提供这个数据库，该系统允许整合关于生物和民族生物学材料的新评论和信息。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。

This project creates an online portal of linguistic information on about indigenous flora, fauna, and material culture (e.g., tools and utensils, fencing and housing, food and fodder). Botanical, biological, and traditional cultural knowledge is rapidly being lost due to easily available mass-produced modern materials and commercially available foodstuffs and medicines. The loss of this information results in significant knowledge gaps for biologists, botanists, and linguists. This multidisciplinary project records, preserves, and disseminates biological, botanical, cultural, and linguistic knowledge so that it can be used for further research.The investigators provide interdisciplinary expertise to create a database of indigenous knowledge using Documentary Linguistic methodology (recording, transcribing, translating, lexicographic analysis) along with the analysis and commentary from indigenous scholars, botanists and biologists. A particularly impactful aspect of this project is the co-creation of a database that brings into alignment the naming of plants, animals, and material culture by the participants. The project plans to make this database available through an open-source content management system that allows for integration of new commentary and information on biological and ethnobiological material.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.