Collaborative Proposal: The Paleontology Portal

PaleoPortal创建了一个中央的、交互式的入口点，可以为多个受众在互联网上审查古生物资源。开发责任酌情授权给五个机构：UMP、美国博物馆、布鲁姆斯堡大学、古生物研究所和耶鲁皮博迪博物馆。重点将放在：通过以下方式扩展和更新内容：(1)将更多的藏品纳入藏品数据库，(2)增加研究概况和RSS订阅，(3)为较小的博物馆建立关于化石准备和藏品管理的模块，以及(4)将更多的遗址纳入我们著名的动植物专题。通过添加(1)随时间变化的大规模花卉/动物群分布模式的交互式可视化以及(2)URL检查器来深化功能。通过以下方式扩大受众使用：(1)为该网站开发一个针对K-12教师的扩展教师指南，(2)建立一个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)使数据库和馆藏门户搜索软件免费提供，以便与其他机构接触。古生物门户网站以一种交互的、易于导航的格式提供对古生物信息和资源、收藏数据和图像的直接访问。此外，将增加对该项目开发的服务和工具的开放访问，包括：(A)包装和记录PaleoPortal分布式收藏门户搜索软件以供分发，以及(B)允许其他项目和合作伙伴网站访问、操纵和展示具有自己的设计和功能的Paleo门户内容的服务。参加这一合作努力的各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方面都有丰富的经验和专门知识。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中的生物和非生物部分的形式提供了接触地球科学的机会。在其发展过程中，这一功能已经演变成满足广泛和多样化的古生物界的需求，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公众成员。它通过在不同级别和通过多条相互连接的途径提供对数据和信息的访问来做到这一点。计划中的改进将进一步扩大多个受众对古门户网站的使用。

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.