Digitizing the Collection of the Orma J. Smith Natural History Museum at the College of Idaho

对爱达荷学院奥玛·J·史密斯自然历史博物馆的藏品进行数字化

• 批准号: 2232680
• 负责人: James McIver
• 金额: $ 48.97万
• 依托单位: The College of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2232680&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitizing; Collection; Orma; J.; Smith

The goals of this project are to improve curation of and provide online accessibility to the natural history collection at the Orma J Smith Museum (OJSM), The College of Idaho, for the purposes of science, education, and conservation. The OJSM collection contains specimens of freshwater fish from Idaho and Montana, aquatic insects of Idaho and Washington, spiders and insects from the intermountain west and Baja California, and fossil plant specimens from the Succor Creek formation of southeastern Oregon. The collection is valuable to society as an indication of regional biodiversity and how it has changed through time, relative especially to climate change and human land use activities. Many specimens were collected more than 150 years ago, and this material can be used to examine populations from an era with much lower human populations and much different land use activities. Comparing material from the present with the past can lead to important insights on how humans influence key species, and can lead to more informed conservation decisions. The collection is also valuable as a resource for K-12 students, by offering opportunity to engage in real-world science, improving science awareness, fostering science identity in under-represented populations, and improving thinking skills. The digitization process will secure digital data about the collection and enhance the visibility and attractiveness of the OJSM to visitors, including teachers, students, and the public. The OJSM collection has over three million specimens collected over the past 150 years, primarily from localities in the U.S. intermountain west and Baja California. Like other arid and semi-arid systems worldwide, these two regions have experienced substantial change in the past century due to climate change, rapid development, mining, logging, grazing, and invasion of non-native species. Documenting the biodiversity of these regions and assessing changes through time are important for research and for conservation planning. The current project will digitize material from six key collections of the OJS Museum: 1) freshwater fish from Idaho and Montana; 2) aquatic macro-invertebrates from Idaho and Washington state; 3) insects and spiders from the U.S. Great Basin; 4) beetles from Baja California; and 6) paleo-botanical specimens from the Succor Creek formation in Oregon. All digital data will maintained in the NSF-supported collection management system Specify 7, and published through on-line resources including iDigBio, SCAN-bugs, NatureServe, and the North American Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Digital Reference Collection.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.

该项目的目标是改善自然历史收藏的策展，并提供在线访问的爱达荷州学院Orma J Smith博物馆（OJSM），科学，教育和保护的目的。OJSM收藏品包括来自爱达荷州和蒙大拿州的淡水鱼标本，爱达荷州和华盛顿的水生昆虫，来自山间西部和下加利福尼亚的蜘蛛和昆虫，以及来自俄勒冈州东南部Succor Creek地层的植物化石标本。这些藏品对社会很有价值，因为它表明了区域生物多样性及其随时间的变化，特别是相对于气候变化和人类土地使用活动的变化。许多标本是在150多年前收集的，这些材料可以用来研究人口少得多的时代的人口和不同的土地利用活动。将现在的材料与过去的材料进行比较可以对人类如何影响关键物种产生重要的见解，并可以导致更明智的保护决策。该集合也是宝贵的K-12学生的资源，通过提供机会，从事现实世界的科学，提高科学意识，培养科学身份在代表性不足的人群，并提高思维能力。 数字化过程将保护有关收集的数字数据，并提高OJSM对游客（包括教师，学生和公众）的可见度和吸引力。在过去的150年里，OJSM收集了超过300万个标本，主要来自美国西部山区和下加利福尼亚。与世界上其他干旱和半干旱系统一样，这两个地区在过去世纪经历了巨大的变化，原因是气候变化、快速发展、采矿、伐木、放牧和非本地物种的入侵。记录这些地区的生物多样性并评估其随时间的变化对于研究和保护规划非常重要。目前的项目将从OJS博物馆的六个主要收藏品中收集材料：1）来自爱达荷州和蒙大拿州的淡水鱼; 2）来自爱达荷州和华盛顿州的水生大型无脊椎动物; 3）来自美国大盆地的昆虫和蜘蛛; 4）来自下加利福尼亚的甲虫;以及6）来自俄勒冈州Succor Creek地层的古植物标本。所有数字数据将保存在NSF支持的收集管理系统Specify 7中，并通过在线资源发布，包括iDigBio，SCAN-bugs，NatureServe和北美水生大型无脊椎动物数字参考收集。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而被认为值得支持。