Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research

数字化 TCN：合作研究：西南节肢动物馆藏网络 (SCAN)：馆藏数字化促进分类学和生态学研究的模型

• 批准号: 1207033
• 负责人: John Oswald
• 金额: $ 36.24万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M AgriLife Research
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1207033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; Southwest

Collaborative Research Digitization TCN: Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological ResearchThe Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) brings together 10 diverse arthropod collections at universities and museums throughout the Southwest to create a virtual network of ground dwelling arthropods which are notably responsive to temporal and spatial environmental changes. These 10 collections document much of the Southwest's biodiversity, but currently the data associated with millions of arthropod specimens are not easily accessible. To overcome this, SCAN will develop methods for integrating existing databases, catalogue-image specimens, develop new electronic identification techniques, and produce a virtual library of ground-dwelling arthropods (beetles, grasshoppers, spiders, ants). In addition the project will work with the existing project Filtered Push to increase the capacity of experts to provide remote identifications and annotations of data that can be sent throughout the network.The comprehensive SCAN online library and expert information will be available to the public as well as professionals in taxonomy, ecology, and climate change science. Smaller institutions will be provided increased access to large data sets for promoting research. The SCAN datasets will support a number of ongoing projects examining the effects of environmental and land-use change on individual arthropod species. By increasing access to this information, SCAN will stimulate new research and increased awareness in biodiversity conservation throughout the region. Over 50 undergraduates also will be trained in cyberinfrastructure, systematics, and ecology. 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.

协作研究数字化 TCN：西南节肢动物收藏网络 (SCAN)：促进分类学和生态研究的收藏数字化模型西南节肢动物收藏网络 (SCAN) 汇集了西南地区大学和博物馆的 10 个不同的节肢动物收藏，创建了一个虚拟的节肢动物收藏网络。地面居住节肢动物网络，对时间和空间环境变化特别敏感。这 10 个馆藏记录了西南部的大部分生物多样性，但目前与数百万节肢动物标本相关的数据并不容易获取。为了克服这个问题，SCAN 将开发整合现有数据库、目录图像样本的方法，开发新的电子识别技术，并创建一个地面节肢动物（甲虫、蚱蜢、蜘蛛、蚂蚁）的虚拟库。此外，该项目将与现有的 Filtered Push 项目合作，提高专家提供远程识别和注释数据的能力，这些数据可以通过网络发送。全面的 SCAN 在线图书馆和专家信息也将向公众开放作为分类学、生态学和气候变化科学领域的专业人士。小型机构将获得更多访问大型数据集的机会，以促进研究。 SCAN 数据集将支持许多正在进行的项目，这些项目研究环境和土地利用变化对单个节肢动物物种的影响。通过增加对这些信息的获取，SCAN 将激发新的研究并提高整个地区对生物多样性保护的认识。超过 50 名本科生还将接受网络基础设施、系统学和生态学方面的培训。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分而颁发的，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过国家资源 iDigBio.org 提供。