Digitization PEN: Integration of data from the UNH Insect Collection with LepNet.

数字化 PEN：UNH 昆虫采集中心的数据与 LepNet 的集成。

• 批准号: 2001589
• 负责人: Istvan Miko
• 金额: $ 15.73万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Integration; data; UNH

An award is made University of New Hampshire for the Don Chandler Entomological Collection (UNHC) to establish a Partner to Existing Networks (PEN) collaboration with the Lepidoptera of North America Thematic Collection Network (LepNet TCN). The LepNet TCN unlocks data from North American Lepidoptera holdings across the US that provides a baseline to track changes in species and communities, and to correlate them with climate and other human-related changes in the environment. This PEN will complement the Lepnet TCN by adding underrepresented historic New England moths and butterflies including species from the unique pitch pine / scrub oak ecosystems. The project will increase the number of currently digitized New England species in LepNet by 63 percent and the number of digitized specimens by 40 percent. Data from this project will be made available on the LepNet portal for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. Undergraduate students will be trained in all aspects of nature history collection curation. The general public will be engaged through Bioblitz and annual Open Day events at UNHC, which includes yearly tours for visually impaired students. The 700,000 specimens of the historical and taxonomically important holdings of the Don Chandler Entomological Collection (UNHC) have been partially inaccessible to researchers and the general public, and digitization effort will increase research and public access. During this project students and technicians will image and transcribe the label information of 50,000 specimens, generate 35,000 specimen images and create the dorsal and z-stack image sets of the dorsal and ventral sides of 15,000 microlepidoptera specimens using a Macropod imaging system. This project will utilize a new, cell phone-based imaging workflow that increases the speed and accuracy of the digitization of entomological collections. Locality data for 30,000 specimens will also be georeferenced. Undergraduate students will be trained throughout this process and data recorded during this project will be integrated into undergraduate courses at the University of New Hampshire to model changes in distribution of Lepidoptera. The UNHC will display results from the proposed project in 3 public exhibits at the Spaulding Life Science Complex. Data produced by this project will be shared through the LepNet portal, iDigBio.org, and GBIF.org.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.

新罕布什尔大学授予 Don Chandler 昆虫学收藏 (UNHC) 奖项，以与北美鳞翅目主题收藏网络 (LepNet TCN) 建立现有网络合作伙伴 (PEN) 合作关系。 LepNet TCN 解锁了美国各地北美鳞翅目动物的数据，这些数据提供了跟踪物种和群落变化的基线，并将其与气候和其他与人类相关的环境变化联系起来。 该 PEN 将通过添加代表性不足的历史性新英格兰蛾和蝴蝶（包括来自独特的沥青松/灌木橡树生态系统的物种）来补充 Lepnet TCN。该项目将使 LepNet 目前数字化的新英格兰物种数量增加 63%，数字化标本数量增加 40%。该项目的数据将在 LepNet 门户上向研究界、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和公众开放。 本科生将接受自然历史收藏管理各个方面的培训。公众将通过 Bioblitz 和 UNHC 的年度开放日活动参与其中，其中包括每年为视障学生提供的参观活动。唐·钱德勒昆虫学收藏馆 (UNHC) 拥有的 700,000 个具有历史和分类学重要意义的标本，部分研究人员和公众无法接触到，而数字化工作将增加研究和公众的接触机会。在该项目期间，学生和技术人员将使用 Macropod 成像系统对 50,000 个标本的标签信息进行成像和转录，生成 35,000 个标本图像，并创建 15,000 个微鳞翅目标本的背侧和腹侧的背侧和 z 堆栈图像集。该项目将利用基于手机的新型成像工作流程，提高昆虫学收藏数字化的速度和准确性。 30,000 个标本的地点数据也将进行地理参考。本科生将在整个过程中接受培训，该项目期间记录的数据将被整合到新罕布什尔大学的本科课程中，以模拟鳞翅目分布的变化。 UNHC 将在斯波尔丁生命科学中心举办 3 个公共展览，展示拟议项目的成果。该项目产生的数据将通过 LepNet 门户、iDigBio.org 和 GBIF.org 共享。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。