Restoration of Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Paleontology Collection, Phase III: Computerization and Verification

该项目是俄克拉荷马州大学俄克拉荷马州自然历史博物馆脊椎动物古生物学收藏改进的第三阶段，专门用于计算和验证收藏数据。 该收藏品包括57，000个标本，是国家资源，特别是二叠纪脊椎动物，侏罗纪恐龙，白垩纪微脊椎动物和中新世哺乳动物。 建议的馆藏电脑化计划将可提高档案的准确性和馆藏管理的效率，并方便处理特定的资料要求。 此外，由于OMNH收集在地理上是孤立的，其内容并不广为人知，研究人员预计，数据的可访问性将导致大大增加标本的使用（通过访问或交易）。 网络上完全可搜索的数据库中的数据将使世界各地的研究人员能够访问这些原本无法访问且无价的标本。

This project is the third phase of improvements to the vertebrate paleontology collection at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, specifically to computerize and verify data for the collection. The collection comprises 57,000 specimens, and is a national resource particularly strong in Permian vertebrates, Jurassic dinosaurs, Cretaceous microvertebrates, and Miocene mammals. The proposed collection computerization program will improve accuracy of records and efficiency in collection management and will facilitate handling of specific information requests. In addition, because the OMNH collection is geographically isolated and its contents are not widely known, the investigators expect that accessibility of the data will result in greatly increased specimen usage (via visitation or transactions). Availability of the data on the web in fully searchable databases will allow researchers worldwide to access these otherwise unaccessible and invaluable specimens.