Collaborative Research: The Paleontology Portal

古生物门户网站创建了一个中央的、交互式的入口点，为多个受众审查互联网上的古生物学资源。发展的责任被适当地委派给五个机构：UCMP、美国博物馆、布卢姆斯堡大学、古生物研究所和耶鲁皮博迪博物馆。重点将放在：扩展和更新内容(1)将更多的收藏纳入收藏数据库，(2)增加研究概况和RSS源，(3)建立如何在化石准备和收集管理较小的博物馆模块，以及(4)在我们的著名动植物特征中包括更多的站点。通过增加(1)植物/动物随时间分布的大规模模式的交互式可视化，以及(2)URL检查器来深化功能。通过(1)开发针对K-12教师的网站扩展教师指南，(2)建立针对非正式科学教育者的工具，使他们能够轻松地根据PaleoPortal材料生成定制的kiosk软件和内容，以及(3)使数据库和集合门户搜索软件免费提供，以努力与其他机构接触。paleportal提供了直接访问古生物学信息和资源、收集数据和图像的交互式、易于导航的格式。此外，还将增加对本项目开发的服务和工具的开放访问，包括：(a)分发的PaleoPortal分布式集合门户搜索软件的打包和文档，以及(b)允许其他项目和合作站点以其自己的设计和功能访问、操作和显示PaleoPortal内容的服务。参与这一合作努力的机构在研究和教育以及通过使用基于网络的技术将两者结合起来方面拥有丰富的经验和专业知识。古门户网站促进了古生物学研究和资源的共享，并以一种整合了地球历史的生物和非生物成分的形式提供了对地球科学的了解。在其发展过程中，这一功能已经演变为满足广泛而多样化的古生物学界的需要，其中包括研究人员、教师、研究生、本科生、大学预科教师、年轻人和其他非科学家的公众成员。它通过在不同层次和通过多种相互关联的途径提供对数据和信息的访问来实现这一目标。计划中的增强将进一步扩展多个受众对paleportal的使用。

PaleoPortal has created a central, interactive entry point to vetted paleontology resources on the Internet for multiple audiences. Responsibilities for development delegated as appropriate to five institutions: UCMP, the American Museum, Bloomsburg University, the Paleontological Research Institute, and the Yale Peabody Museum. The focus will be on: Expanding and updating content by (1) bringing additional collections into the collections database, (2) adding research profiles and RSS feeds, (3) building how to modules on fossil preparation and collection management for smaller museums, and (4) including additional sites in our Famous Flora and Fauna feature. Deepening functionality with the addition of (1) interactive visualizations of large-scale patterns of floral/faunal distributions through time, and (2) a URL checker. Extending audience use by (1) developing an expanded teacher's guide for the site that targets K-12 teachers, (2) building a tool targeting informal science educators that would allow them to easily generate customized kiosk software and content based on PaleoPortal materials, and (3) making the database and the collections portal search software freely available in an effort to reach out to other institutions. The PaleoPortal provides direct access to paleontological information and resources, collections data, and images in an interactive, easy to navigate format. In addition, open access to the services and tools developed by this project will be added and include: (a) packaging and documentation of PaleoPortal distributed collections portal search software for distribution, and (b) a service allowing other projects and partner sites to access, manipulate, and display PaleoPortal content with their own design and functionality. The institutions represented in this collaborative effort have extensive experience and expertise in both research and education and in the integration of the two through the use of web-based technologies. PaleoPortal facilitates the sharing of paleontological research and resources and provides exposure to the geosciences in a format that integrates both biotic and abiotic components of Earth's history. During its development, this function has evolved to meet the needs of a broad and diverse paleontological community, which includes researchers, faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, pre-college teachers, young people, and other non-scientist members of the public. It does so by providing access to data and information at different levels and through multiple interconnected pathways. The planned enhancements will further extend the use of the PaleoPortal by multiple audiences.