Integrating Art, History and Diverse Knowledge Systems in Systematics: A Framework to Advance Inclusive Practice in Taxonomy

该项目旨在通过参与性研究将科学史与现代文化和技术知识相结合，以推进系统学和分类学的包容性实践。该项目的重点是鳄鱼，这是一群在全球文化和社区中占有重要地位的动物，旨在开发一种跨学科团队调查模式，从考古、艺术和档案背景中调查文化遗产材料，反映与自然历史和分类学有关的文化信仰。该项目将形成一个知识整合的模型，通过在线发布参考数据库，并为研究参与、推广和教育提供机会，在代表不同社区和文化的学生和参与者之间进行令人兴奋的、共同的努力。该项目的其他成果包括公共科学传播活动、跨学科期刊文章、国际合作研究和本科生、研究生和博士后研究人员的专业发展机会。将为一年一度的保护科学学生会议举办一个以这项研究为重点的讲习班。系统分类学努力识别所有层次的生物多样性，然而，多样性文献中使用的许多数据依赖于这些标本来源的群落提供的知识，而没有适当的归属。该项目将努力重新呈现、重新定义和整合基于地方和传统的知识，以增强我们对生物多样性的理解。通过以团队为基础的共同制作的档案研究，我们将与其他社会利益相关者一起重新审视对自然和文化多样性的解释，并扩大知识生产和展示的途径。将数字化、制图和生物分子分析方法的技术进步与土著和基于地方的知识系统相结合，可能会为我们理解生命系统的历史和相互关系提供下一个飞跃。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is designed to integrate the history of science with modern cultural and technology-based knowledge through participatory research to advance inclusive practice in systematics and taxonomy. The project focuses on crocodiles, a group of animals which figure prominently in cultures and communities around the globe, to develop a model of interdisciplinary team-based surveys of cultural heritage materials from archaeological, artistic and archival contexts reflecting cultural beliefs related to natural history and taxonomy. The project will result in a model of knowledge integration that is to be disseminated by publishing a reference database online and by providing opportunities for research participation, outreach, and education in an exciting, shared endeavor among students and participants representing diverse communities and cultures. Other outcomes of the project include public science communication events, interdisciplinary journal articles, and international collaborative research and professional development opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers. A workshop focused on this research is to be developed for the annual Student Conference on Conservation Science. Systematic taxonomy strives to recognize all levels of biological diversity, yet much of the data used in the documentation of diversity has relied on knowledge provided by the communities from which these collections were sourced without appropriate attribution. This project will strive to resurface, re-attribute and integrate place based and traditional knowledge to enhance our understanding of biological diversity. Through team based co-produced archival research on the contributions of source and descendant communities we will re-visit the interpretation of natural and cultural diversity with additional societal stakeholders and expand pathways of knowledge production and presentation. The integration of technological advances in digitization, mapping and bio-molecular analysis methods with Indigenous and place-based knowledge systems may provide us with the next big jump in understanding the history of and relationships among living systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.