Integrating Art, History and Diverse Knowledge Systems in Systematics: A Framework to Advance Inclusive Practice in Taxonomy

该项目旨在通过参与性研究将科学史与以现代文化和技术为基础的知识相结合，以促进在分类学和分类学方面的包容性做法。该项目的重点是鳄鱼，这是一种在世界各地的文化和社区中占有重要地位的动物，以开发一种跨学科团队调查模式，对考古、艺术和档案背景下的文化遗产材料进行调查，反映与自然历史和分类学有关的文化信仰。该项目将产生一种知识整合的模式，通过在网上发布参考数据库，并在学生和代表不同社区和文化的参与者之间共同努力，提供参与研究、推广和教育的机会，从而传播这种模式。该项目的其他成果包括公共科学交流活动、跨学科期刊文章，以及为本科生、研究生和博士后研究人员提供的国际合作研究和专业发展机会。将为一年一度的保护科学学生会议开发一个以这项研究为重点的研讨会。系统分类学努力识别生物多样性的所有层面，然而，记录多样性时使用的许多数据依赖于收集这些数据的社区提供的知识，而没有适当的归属。该项目将努力重新定位、重新归属和整合基于地点的知识和传统知识，以加强我们对生物多样性的了解。通过以团队为基础的关于起源和后代社区贡献的共同制作的档案研究，我们将与其他社会利益攸关方重新探讨对自然和文化多样性的解释，并扩大知识生产和展示的途径。将数字化、测绘和生物分子分析方法方面的技术进步与土著和基于地点的知识系统相结合，可能会为我们在理解生命系统的历史和相互关系方面提供下一次重大飞跃。这一奖项反映了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 is designed to integrate the history of science with modern cultural and technology-based knowledge through participatory research to advance inclusive practice in systematics and taxonomy. The project focuses on crocodiles, a group of animals which figure prominently in cultures and communities around the globe, to develop a model of interdisciplinary team-based surveys of cultural heritage materials from archaeological, artistic and archival contexts reflecting cultural beliefs related to natural history and taxonomy. The project will result in a model of knowledge integration that is to be disseminated by publishing a reference database online and by providing opportunities for research participation, outreach, and education in an exciting, shared endeavor among students and participants representing diverse communities and cultures. Other outcomes of the project include public science communication events, interdisciplinary journal articles, and international collaborative research and professional development opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers. A workshop focused on this research is to be developed for the annual Student Conference on Conservation Science. Systematic taxonomy strives to recognize all levels of biological diversity, yet much of the data used in the documentation of diversity has relied on knowledge provided by the communities from which these collections were sourced without appropriate attribution. This project will strive to resurface, re-attribute and integrate place based and traditional knowledge to enhance our understanding of biological diversity. Through team based co-produced archival research on the contributions of source and descendant communities we will re-visit the interpretation of natural and cultural diversity with additional societal stakeholders and expand pathways of knowledge production and presentation. The integration of technological advances in digitization, mapping and bio-molecular analysis methods with Indigenous and place-based knowledge systems may provide us with the next big jump in understanding the history of and relationships among living systems.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.