Digitization PEN: Enhancing the EPICC TCN with unique, well curated, but poorly accessible collections at the University of California - Riverside

数字化 PEN：通过加州大学河滨分校独特、精心策划但难以获取的馆藏来增强 EPICC TCN

• 批准号: 1802493
• 负责人: Lauren English
• 金额: $ 9.49万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1802493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Enhancing; EPICC; TCN

This is a Partner to Existing Networks (PEN) award to the University of California-Riverside Earth Science Museum (UCRESM) to partner with the Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) Thematic Collections Network (TCN). The EPICC TCN is digitizing collections that document the response of coastal invertebrate communities to long-term environmental changes across a wide and continuous range of latitudes since the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. This PEN will digitize about 40,000 marine invertebrate specimens and will contribute data on fossils from boreholes drilled by private industry, bulk specimens from Pleistocene marine terraces, specimens representing the northern extent of the Bay of California, and type specimens of fossils from across Southern California. Throughout the course of the project, undergraduate students will be heavily involved. They will be given training and experience in museum studies earlier in their academic careers than is typical, giving them a boost for future career development opportunities. Many of the students that will be involved are from groups underrepresented in museum sciences. Since the majority of UCR's student body are low-income and/or from underrepresented minorities, paid internships will be provided through this project to provide an avenue for some who would otherwise be unable to enter the field. The UCRESM includes an exhibit hallway visited by about 25,000 people per year, including many of the university's tour groups. Funds from this project will be used to create an interdisciplinary exhibit on the biological, geographical, tectonic, and environmental changes of California's coastline. Specimens digitized will be included and students will play an important part in designing and putting together the exhibit.Small, out-of-the-way collections such as this are often understudied and inaccessible. This project will provide high-quality data and images to researchers unable to view specimens in person. The boreholes represented specimens from far below the surface that are difficult and expensive to obtain, so those provided by oil companies fill many gaps in the fossil record. Bulk specimens from Pleistocene marine terraces provides a less biased look at the diversity of a site than targeted collections. Specimens from the Bay of California, which once extended far north of the Salton Sea and its fauna had an unexpected affinity with the Caribbean, are important for studying the dispersal of taxa between the Atlantic and Pacific just before the closure of the Panamanian Isthmus. Best practice protocols for digitizing core data created during this project will be uploaded to EPICC's website for other core collections to consult. The data from the project, including high-quality images for 470 type specimens, will be made available online through iDigBio (idigbio.org) and the UCRESM website.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.

这是加利福尼亚大学地球科学博物馆（UCRESM）现有网络（PEN）奖的合作伙伴，旨在与Cenozoic（EPICC）主题收藏网络（TCN）的东太平洋无脊椎动物社区合作。 EPICC TCN正在数字化集合，以记录沿海无脊椎动物群落对自非阿奇恐龙灭绝以来广泛而连续的纬度范围的长期环境变化的反应。 这支笔将数字化约40,000个海洋无脊椎动物标本，并将贡献有关私人工业钻孔的化石的数据，来自更新世海洋露台的散装标本，代表加利福尼亚湾北部的标本，以及来自南加利福尼亚州的化石类型的标本。 在整个项目过程中，本科生将大量参与其中。与典型的学术职业生涯相比，他们将在博物馆研究中获得培训和经验，从而为未来的职业发展机会提供了增长。许多将要参与的学生来自博物馆科学中代表性不足的小组。 由于UCR的大多数学生团体是低收入和/或来自代表性不足的少数族裔，因此将通过该项目提供付费实习，以为某些人无法进入该领域的人提供途径。 UCRESM包括每年约25,000人来访的展览走廊，其中包括该大学的许多旅游团。 该项目的资金将用于创建有关加利福尼亚海岸线的生物，地理，构造和环境变化的跨学科展览。 将包括数字化的标本，学生将在设计和整理展览中发挥重要作用。小all，诸如此类的杂货店的收藏经常被研究和无法访问。 该项目将为无法亲自查看标本的研究人员提供高质量的数据和图像。 钻孔代表了从地面以下的标本，这些标本难以获得且昂贵，因此石油公司提供的标本填补了化石记录中的许多空白。 更新世海洋露台上的散装标本比目标集合比目标集合的多样性更少偏见。 来自加利福尼亚湾的标本曾经延伸到萨尔顿海以北及其动物群与加勒比海的意外亲和力，对于研究大西洋和太平洋之间的分类群在巴拿马isthmus关闭之前很重要。 用于数字化此项目中创建的核心数据的最佳实践协议将被上传到EPICC的网站，以供其他核心收藏咨询。 该项目的数据，包括470型样品的高质量图像，将通过IDIGBIO（IDIGBIO.org）在线提供，并将在UCRESM网站上在线提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。