CDI-Type II: Computational Methods to Enable an Invertebrate Paleontology Knowledgebase

CDI-Type II：支持无脊椎动物古生物学知识库的计算方法

• 批准号: 1308762
• 负责人: Xue-Wen Chen
• 金额: $ 109.28万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1308762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CDI; Type; II; Computational; Methods

The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, founded in 1948 by an international consortium of paleontological societies, is considered to be the most authoritative compilation of data on invertebrate fossils. It holds an almost biblical significance and is to be found in every good library. The Treatise has found applications in many areas, such as understanding evolution, studying climate change, and finding fossil fuels. In order to maximize the possible benefit from this landmark effort, there is a strong desire in the paleontological community to make this vast repository of paleontological data available in electronic form for current and future scientists and laypeople. The object of the proposed research is to facilitate knowledge discovery activities in invertebrate paleontology by providing scientists with a general framework that takes advantage of the rich information extracted from the Treatise. The first mission is to turn the Treatise data into available knowledge. The second mission is to develop computational tools for analyzing, modeling, and visualizing paleontological data in order to facilitate knowledge discovery. The knowledgebase we propose to develop will play a central role in paleontological data management. It will facilitate paleontologists to further explore unexploited areas and to raise and answer research questions that are unsolvable under the current paradigm. Furthermore, it will provide a paradigm shift from the book-based knowledge system, which is perceived as supporting evidence of mainstream research and provides little knowledge regarding the patterns and relationships that are embedded within them, to a unified framework in which computational analysis and modeling are integrated with knowledge to derive a new era of paleontological research. Consequently, the knowledgebase will likely open transformational opportunities in scientific discovery to help understand the complexity of nature. Additionally, the website we will create will enable anyone to explore the world of fossils on the world-wide web, and to link with the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and their outreach programs for K-12 students and the general public.

《无脊椎动物古生物学论文》由国际古生物学学会联盟于 1948 年创立，被认为是最权威的无脊椎动物化石数据汇编。它几乎具有圣经的意义，在每个好的图书馆中都可以找到。该论文在许多领域都有应用，例如理解进化、研究气候变化和寻找化石燃料。为了最大限度地从这一里程碑式的努力中获得可能的利益，古生物学界强烈希望以电子形式为当前和未来的科学家和外行提供这一庞大的古生物学数据存储库。拟议研究的目的是通过为科学家提供一个利用从该论文中提取的丰富信息的总体框架来促进无脊椎动物古生物学的知识发现活动。第一个任务是将论文数据转化为可用的知识。第二个任务是开发用于分析、建模和可视化古生物学数据的计算工具，以促进知识发现。我们建议开发的知识库将在古生物学数据管理中发挥核心作用。它将有助于古生物学家进一步探索未开发地区，并提出和回答当前范式下无法解决的研究问题。此外，它将提供从基于书籍的知识系统的范式转变，基于书籍的知识系统被认为是主流研究的支持证据，并且几乎没有提供有关其中嵌入的模式和关系的知识，到一个统一的框架，其中计算分析和建模与知识相结合，开创古生物学研究的新时代。因此，知识库可能会为科学发现带来变革机会，以帮助理解自然的复杂性。此外，我们将创建的网站将使任何人能够在万维网上探索化石世界，并与堪萨斯大学自然历史博物馆及其针对 K-12 学生和公众的外展计划建立联系。