REU: Computerization of the Cornell Ichthyology Collection

康奈尔鱼类学收藏大约有150万条保存完好的鱼。该收藏代表了世界范围内鱼类的多样性，但主要集中在北美淡水鱼，它包含了40种北美物种的模式标本。该馆定期向各类科学、政府和公众用户提供馆藏信息，并向其他机构的科学家出借数以千计的标本。然而，有些要求目前是不切实际的或不可能回答的。例如，工作人员经常收到来自特定州或其他地方的所有标本信息的询问。以目前的分类帐为基础的目录，这样的查询需要数周的时间来回答，所有其他的收集活动必须推迟。该项目将提供设备和人员将整个馆藏的数据输入电脑化数据库，使馆藏能够迅速回答这些问题，并提高馆藏管理各方面的效率。

The Cornell Ichthyology Collection contains approximately 1.5 million preserved fishes. The Collection represents the diversity of fishes worldwide, but concentrates most heavily on North American freshwater fishes, and it contains the type specimens for 40 North American species. The Collection regularly provides information on the collection to a wide variety of scientific, government and public users and sends thousands of specimens out on loan to scientists at other institutions. However, some requests are currently impractical or impossible to answer. For example, the staff frequently receive inquiries for information on all the specimens from a particular state or other locality. With the current, ledger- based catalogue, such an inquiry takes weeks of time to answer, and all other collections activities must be postponed. This project, which will provide equipment and personnel to enter data on the entire collection into a computerized data base, will allow the Collection to answer such questions quickly and will increase the efficiency of all aspects of collection management.