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The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collection Network (TPT-TCN) will digitize over one million arthropod specimens representing species that are significant parasites and disease vectors of vertebrates in the United States. This digitization effort will integrate millions of vertebrate host records with vector and disease monitoring data shared by state and federal agency collaborators, creating a novel foundation for integrative, long-term research. This project is a collaboration of taxonomists and curators from vertebrate and invertebrate collections, as well as epidemiologists, ecologists, data-scientists, and biodiversity informatics specialists. This reach is further extended by the 26 collaborating research collections and other initiatives. This project will empower ongoing citizen science and public awareness campaigns with the tools to understand distribution changes of arthropod vectors and associated diseases due to environmental change and global movement. Public education initiatives include partnering with natural history museums to educate the public about parasites via science-focused lectures, exhibits, summer youth programs, informal presentations, and developing new online educational resources for teachers in underserved communities. All specimen images generated by this project will be used for the development of a rapid identification tool for parasites which will be made accessible through the internet and smartphone apps and shared with iDigBio (idigbio.org). The TPT-TCN will also develop and implement undergraduate teaching modules focused on data held in natural history collections. These modules will be disseminated to academic institutions across the United States and made available online. | The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collection Network (TPT-TCN) will digitize over one million arthropod specimens representing species that are significant parasites and disease vectors of vertebrates in the United States. This digitization effort will integrate millions of vertebrate host records with vector and disease monitoring data shared by state and federal agency collaborators, creating a novel foundation for integrative, long-term research. This project is a collaboration of taxonomists and curators from vertebrate and invertebrate collections, as well as epidemiologists, ecologists, data-scientists, and biodiversity informatics specialists. This reach is further extended by the 26 collaborating research collections and other initiatives. This project will empower ongoing citizen science and public awareness campaigns with the tools to understand distribution changes of arthropod vectors and associated diseases due to environmental change and global movement. Public education initiatives include partnering with natural history museums to educate the public about parasites via science-focused lectures, exhibits, summer youth programs, informal presentations, and developing new online educational resources for teachers in underserved communities. All specimen images generated by this project will be used for the development of a rapid identification tool for parasites which will be made accessible through the internet and smartphone apps and shared with iDigBio (idigbio.org). The TPT-TCN will also develop and implement undergraduate teaching modules focused on data held in natural history collections. These modules will be disseminated to academic institutions across the United States and made available online. | ||
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A free, reusable and modifiable lesson plan on biological interaction data. | A free, reusable and modifiable lesson plan on biological interaction data. | ||
[https://github.com/njdowdy/digitization_progress_reports Digitization Progress Reports]<br> | |||
A resource for generating digitization effort graphs (or other efforts). | |||
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=== Protocols & Workflows === | === Protocols & Workflows === | ||
TPT has contributed many exemplar workflows to the [https://entcollnet.github.io/BugFlow/ BugFlow repository] as well as helped build many of the baseline workflow protocols: | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_1/module_1A.md Module 1A: Inventory and Taxonomy Update] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_3/module_3A.md Module 3A: Direct Label Transcription] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_3/module_3C.md Module 3C: Label data parsing] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_3/module_3D.md Module 3D: Label Imaging] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/tree/master/workflows Workflows folder] (master/all workflows) | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_4/module_4C.md Module 4C: Enveloped or "flat" Imaging] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_4/module_4F.md Module 4F: Slide Label/low-res Imaging] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_4/module_4K.md Module 4K: Pinned 2D non-stacked specimen imaging] | |||
* [https://github.com/EntCollNet/BugFlow/blob/master/modules/module_4/module_4L.md Module 4L: Vial low-res imaging] | |||
Imaging with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker TCN [https://vimeo.com/505426633 Vimeo] | Imaging with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker TCN [https://vimeo.com/505426633 Vimeo] | ||