Critical Upgrades to Specimen Storage and Computerization for the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection

俄勒冈州立大学鱼类学馆藏标本存储和计算机化的关键升级

• 批准号: 1057452
• 负责人: Brian Sidlauskas
• 金额: $ 39.92万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Critical; Upgrades; Specimen; Storage; Computerization

The quarter million specimens in the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection (OSUIC) have supported research on fish biodiversity and conservation since 1935. Recently a lack of expansion space, an outdated card-based cataloging system and insufficient finances have stymied the OSUIC's growth and prevented researchers around the globe from accessing the collection's holdings easily. This project will solve these problems by 1) installing mobile compact shelving that will increase shelf space by 43% and 2) creating an online, remotely accessible collection database. These critical upgrades will allow the OSUIC to archive new specimens and ensure that it continues to serve as a center for research on fishes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond for decades to come.In addition to upgrading the collection's infrastructure, this project will engage precollege students with some of the most spectacular OSUIC specimens in hands-on Discovery Units, provide training and financial support to undergraduate and graduate students, and develop a new online Systematics of Fishes course. In that course, photographs of specimens of more than 400 species will generate a virtual teaching collection, thereby replicating the laboratory-intensive experience of the current on-campus offering. By its conclusion, the project will offer students, scientists and the public vastly improved online access to information in a biodiversity library that has until now been accessible only to scholars behind closed doors.

自 1935 年以来，俄勒冈州立大学鱼类学收藏 (OSUIC) 中的 25 万个标本一直支持鱼类生物多样性和保护的研究。最近，缺乏扩展空间、过时的卡片式编目系统和资金不足阻碍了 OSUIC 的发展并阻碍了研究人员在全球范围内轻松访问馆藏。该项目将通过以下方式解决这些问题：1) 安装移动紧凑型货架，将货架空间增加 43%；2) 创建在线、远程访问的馆藏数据库。这些关键的升级将使 OSUIC 能够归档新标本，并确保其在未来几十年内继续作为太平洋西北地区及其他地区鱼类研究中心。除了升级馆藏基础设施外，该项目还将吸引大学预科学生在实践探索单元中提供一些最壮观的 OSUIC 标本，为本科生和研究生提供培训和财务支持，并开发新的在线鱼类系统学课程。在该课程中，400 多个物种的标本照片将生成虚拟教学收藏，从而复制当前校园课程的实验室密集型体验。最终，该项目将为学生、科学家和公众提供极大改善的在线访问生物多样性图书馆信息的方式，而迄今为止，该图书馆只有学者可以闭门访问。