Digitization PEN: Ground-dwelling Insects in the Brigham Young University Collection, Enhancement to SCAN

该项目的活动将使杨百翰大学(杨百翰大学)蒙特·豆生命科学博物馆的52,300个昆虫标本建立数据库。比亚迪的昆虫收藏是美国大平原以西、太平洋海岸以东最大的昆虫收藏。许多杨百翰大学的标本是在20世纪上半叶收集的，因此它们贡献了大量对科学研究至关重要的遗产数据。它保存了大量关于重要物种的分布和习性的信息，包括农业害虫、医学上重要的物种、受威胁和濒危物种以及传粉者等有益物种。这些信息将通过对标本进行编目和拍照，然后在网上发布结果来广泛获取。该项目将为许多学生提供出色的指导经验，包括那些在科学领域传统上代表性不足的学生。此外，该项目将在博物馆进行互动展示，教授生物分布随时间变化的基本原理。杨百翰大学(BYU)的昆虫收藏加入了西南节肢动物收藏网络(SCAN)，创建了一个广泛的、可通过网络访问的博物馆标本目录。项目活动包括：(1)从杨百翰大学收集的52,000个以前未编目的地面节肢动物标本中收集和鉴定数据，这些标本代表扫描到的四个重点昆虫家族：蝗科、步甲科、拟步甲科和蚁科。(2)对标本地点进行地理参考有助于扫描，利用地理位置和其他资源，并使用档案质量标签更新遗留标本上褪色的地点标签。(3)制作模式材料在杨百翰的所有地栖节肢动物种的模式标本的高分辨率图像。(4)促进SCAN的综合区域数据库，以促进可获取的、结构良好的、分类学上可靠的数据，用于模拟气候变化对物种分布的影响，从而加强SCAN的远程标本注释和鉴定工作流程。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划的生物收藏数字化国家资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)门户网站获得。

Activities in this project will result in the databasing of 52,300 insect specimens from the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University (BYU). The BYU collection is the largest insect collection west of the Great Plains and east of the Pacific coast. Many of the BYU specimens were collected in the first half of the 20th century, and they therefore contribute a great deal of legacy data critical for scientific studies. It preserves a wealth of information on distributions and habits of important species, including agricultural pests, medically important species, threatened and endangered species, and beneficial species such as pollinators. This information will be made widely accessible by cataloguing and photographing specimens and then publishing the results on the Web. The project will provide an outstanding mentored experience for numerous students, including those traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. In addition, the project will result in an interactive museum display to teach basic principles in the change of organismal distributions over time. The insect collection at Brigham Young University (BYU) joins the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) in creating an extensive, Web-accessible catalogue of museum specimens. Project activities include: (1) Capturing collecting and identification data from 52,000 previously uncatalogued ground-dwelling arthropod specimens from the BYU collection representing the four focal insect families in SCAN: Acrididae, Carabidae, Tenebrionidae, and Formicidae. (2) Georeferencing specimen localities contributed to SCAN, utilizing GEOLocate and other resources, and upgrading fading locality labels on legacy specimens with archival quality labels. (3) Producing high-resolution images of type specimens of all ground-dwelling arthropod species whose type material is housed at BYU. (4) Contributing to SCAN's synthetic regional database to promote accessible, well-structured, taxonomically sound data for modeling climate change impacts on species distributions, and thereby enhancing SCAN's remote specimen annotation and identification workflows. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program, and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org) portals.