MPM Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT)
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published on Jan 11, 2022
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The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collection Network (TPT-TCN; NSF DBI-1901932) 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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,609 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Downloads
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 2,609 records in English (149 KB) - Update frequency: irregular |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (10 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (7 KB) |
Versions
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
North America
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [17.979, -169.453], North East [83.52, -52.734] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1882-01-01 / 2019-01-01 |
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Project Data
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
| Title | Terrestrial Parasite Tracker |
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| Funding | National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Milwaukee Public Museum Non-Insect Invertebrate Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | INV |
| Parent Collection Identifier | MPM |
| Collection Name | Milwaukee Public Museum Insect Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | ENT |
| Parent Collection Identifier | MPM |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=tpt |
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