Collaborative: The Paleontology Portal

协作：古生物学门户

• 批准号: 0552156
• 负责人: Dale Springer
• 金额: $ 3.78万
• 依托单位: COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0552156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Paleontology; Portal

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.

Paleoportal创建了一个中心的交互式入口点，用于在Internet上为多个受众提供审查的古生物学资源。发展责任属于五个机构：UCMP，美国博物馆，布卢姆斯堡大学，古生物学研究所和耶鲁·皮博迪博物馆。 重点将放在：通过（1）通过（1）将其他收藏集中到集合数据库中，（2）添加研究配置文件和RSS提要，（3）构建如何在化石制备和较小博物馆的收集管理上模块，以及（4）包括我们著名的Flora和Fauna功能的其他站点。 通过（1）添加（1）随着时间的流逝的花朵/动物分布的大规模模式的交互式可视化加深功能，以及（2）一个URL检查器。 （1）为针对K-12老师的网站开发扩展的教师指南的使用扩展，（2）构建针对非正式科学教育工作者的工具，该工具将使他们能够轻松地基于旧的材料生成定制的售货亭软件和内容，并且（3）使数据库和收集门户网站搜索软件自由使用，以便与其他Institions互动。 Paleotortal以交互式易于导航格式直接访问古生物学信息和资源，收集数据和图像。 此外，将添加对该项目开发的服务和工具的开放访问，并包括：（a）旧版本分布式收藏量门户搜索软件的包装和文档，以及（b）允许其他项目和合作伙伴网站访问，操纵和显示具有自己的设计和功能的旧目录的服务。 通过使用基于Web的技术，在这项合作工作中代表的机构在研究和教育以及两者的整合方面具有丰富的经验和专业知识。 旧生态促进了古生物学研究和资源的共享，并以一种整合地球历史的生物和非生物成分的格式，为地球科学提供了暴露。 在开发过程中，此功能已经发展为满足广泛而多样化的古生物学社区的需求，其中包括研究人员，教职员工，研究生，本科生，大学前老师，年轻人和其他非科学家公众。 通过在不同级别和多个互连途径中提供对数据和信息的访问来做到这一点。 计划的增强功能将进一步扩大多个受众的古质使用。