Research and Responsibility: Virtual access to integrated fossil and archival material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913)

研究与责任：虚拟访问德国 Tendaguru 探险队（1909-1913 年）的综合化石和档案材料

• 批准号: 511945957
• 负责人: Dr. Daniela Schwarz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung (MfN)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/511945957?language=en
• 关键词: Research; Responsibility; Virtual; access; integrated

From 1909 to 1913, scientists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin organized and conducted the ‘German Tendaguru Expedition` to southern Tanzania (at that time the German colony ‘Deutsch Ostafrika’). The collection of fossil vertebrates and related written and visual material that the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin holds from this expedition is unique in its paleontological and historical significance. The core of the collection is formed by the 230 tons of dinosaur material, which can be regarded in equal measure as part of the world cultural and natural heritage due to its outstanding scientific significance. In addition to the fossils themselves, the extensive archived photographs, correspondences, administrative files, account books, diaries, drawings and the like form a unique source for dealing with palaeontological and historical questions, with a specific focus on the colonial background of the expedition. The current patchy state of digitization of the paleontological and historical Tendaguru materials does not do justice to the outstanding importance of the collections for natural and social science research, which is increasingly based on comprehensive digital resources. Thus, the overall goal of this project is to make the collection accessible worldwide by combining all digital contents (object digital models, data, images and documents, archival materials, results, publications) of the historic German Tendaguru Expedition in one data portal (the “Datenportal” of the MfN) , make them jointly researchable and usable for specific target groups across all object groups, and allow linking an export of data to other specific databases (e.g., GBIF, FossilWorks). We aim to create a digital collection that is globally accessible for scientists and corresponds to the FAIR data principles of the European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data principles. Making the data available worldwide will serve as a resource for different communities of all countries to develop their own research approaches or use the data for publicity for variable purposes, and will support those people in their research/approach, who cannot afford to travel abroad to visit other collections, thereby contribution to a reduction of the inequality of chances in science. Through the process of this project, it is also aimed to establish workflows and models for suitable methods of 3D digitization of larger collections of fossil vertebrates as well as to establish workflows and guidelines for integrating and making digitally available research objects from colonial contexts.

从1909年到1913年，柏林自然博物馆的科学家们组织并进行了“德国坦达古鲁探险队”，前往坦桑尼亚南部（当时是德国殖民地“多伊奇奥斯塔非利卡”）。柏林自然博物馆从这次探险中收集的脊椎动物化石和相关的文字和视觉材料在古生物学和历史学上具有独特的意义。该系列的核心是由230吨恐龙材料组成的，由于其突出的科学意义，这些材料可以被视为世界文化和自然遗产的一部分。除了化石本身，大量存档的照片，信件，行政文件，账簿，日记，图纸等形成了处理古生物学和历史问题的独特来源，特别关注探险的殖民背景。目前对Tendaguru古生物学和历史资料的数字化参差不齐，这与自然和社会科学研究收藏的突出重要性不相称，这些收藏越来越多地基于全面的数字资源。因此，该项目的总体目标是通过合并所有数字内容，使收藏品在全世界都可以访问在一个数据门户网站中提供历史性的德国Tendaguru探险的对象（数字模型，数据，图像和文件，档案材料，结果，出版物）（MfN的“Datenportal”），使它们可供所有对象组中的特定目标组共同研究和使用，并允许将数据的导出链接到其它特定数据库（例如，GBIF，FossilWorks）。我们的目标是创建一个全球科学家都可以访问的数字集合，并符合欧盟委员会公平数据原则专家组的公平数据原则。向全世界提供这些数据将成为各国不同社区的一种资源，使其能够制定自己的研究方法或将数据用于各种目的的宣传，并将支持那些负担不起出国访问其他收藏品费用的人开展研究/方法，从而有助于减少科学机会的不平等。通过该项目的进程，它还旨在建立工作流程和模型，以便对较大的脊椎动物化石藏品进行3D数字化的适当方法，并建立工作流程和指导方针，以便整合和提供来自殖民地背景的数字化研究对象。