SGER: Towards a Community-Wide Paleobiological Database Analysis Center

9912384查尔斯马歇尔进化古生物学的许多下一个重大进展将通过构建一个社区范围的数据库来促进，该数据库将全球古生物学数据与其他相关数据相结合。 1998年，约翰·阿尔罗伊和我得到了位于圣巴巴拉的国家生态分析与综合中心（NCEAS）的资助，举办了一系列研讨会，以帮助启动这样一个数据库计划。已经成立了一个由来自15个机构和2个国家的27人组成的工作组，并建立了一个数据库结构（见http：//www.nceas.ucsb.edu/public/pmpd/）。 我们目前在数据库中有大约4，300个收藏品，代表总共近68，000个属的出现。 研究生负责输入这些数据的99%。 然而，我们的地层和地理覆盖面是不均衡的，如果我们要产生令人信服的结果，我们就需要填补空白。 尽管有正常的规则，NCEAS仍然慷慨地资助了大部分数据输入，但现在无法继续这样做。 因此，为了保持数据流入数据库，我们要求提供资金，在今后12个月内支持分布在四个机构和两个国家的六名研究生，以保持数据库的增长。 SGER的资金将使我们的数据库规模几乎翻一番，这将大大帮助我们实现更广泛的长期数据库计划。

9912384Charles Marshall Many of the next major advances in evolutionary paleobiology will be facilitated by the construction of a community-wide database that integrates global paleontologic data with other relevant data. In 1998 John Alroy and I were funded by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara to run a series of workshops to help launch such a database initiative. A working group of 27 people from 15 institutions and 2 countries has been established, as well as a database structure (see http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/public/pmpd/). We currently have some 4,300 collections, representing a total of nearly 68,000 genus occurrences, in the database. Graduate students have been responsible for entering 99% of these data. However, our stratigraphic and geographic coverage is uneven, and we need to fill in the gaps if we are to produce convincing results. NCEAS, despite its normal rules, has generously funded most of the data entry, but is now unable to continue to do so. Thus, to maintain the data flow into the database we are requesting funds to support six graduate students distributed over four institutions and two countries over the next 12 months to keep the database growing. SGER funding will allow us to almost double the size of the database, significantly helping us towards a broader-based long-term database initiative.