THE DIGITIZATION OF THE DEPOSITORY OF SCIENTIFIC AND EXPOSITIONAL FUNDS OF THE HELMINTHOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THE VNIIP – FSC VIEV: MODERN BASIS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF THE ERGONOMICS OF WORK WITH A PREPARATION COLLECTION

Abstract

During more than a century of existence of the Skryabinsky Helminthological Museum, now The Helminthological Museum of VNIIP – FSC VIEV, there was a constant replenishment of its funds. Currently, scientific information on 24,129 helminthological preparations is deposited and systematized in the Museum's computer database. All types of work carried out with the helminthological preparation collection are related to the search for specific zoological species of parasites, inventory numbers of objects, and identification of their direct physical location in the depository. There is a need to record information about the date and time of removal of objects from the collection, their return to the place of withdrawal, and possible movements through the departments of the depository. In order to optimize the ergonomics of work with the preparation collection, it is for the first time that a system of structuring has been developed and the depository of scientific and expositional funds of the Helminthological Museum of the VNIIP – FSC VIEV has been digitized. In the department "preparations of the wet helminth collection", 48 sectors are structurally allocated and designated, where 576 locations were indexed. In the department of "microslides" (histological and total microslides), 800 locations were digitized. In the department "types of helminth species" – 40 locations. In the expositional department of the Helminthological Museum, 125 locations were indexed in 38 selected sectors. Each of the 1541 locations was assigned a digital index. The unique inventory number of each storage item was linked to a specific location in the depository of the Museum collection through digital indexing. Information on the actual placement of items in the collection was entered into the database of the currently operated version of the "Computer Handbook of preparations of the Helminthological Museum of the VNIIP – FSC VIEV. The principle of "on–line" access to the actual coordinates of the physical location of any deposited item located in the computer registry of the collection is implemented. Computerized control over the dynamics of movement of any inventory item over the locations of the Museum depository has been introduced. Digitization of the structure of the depository of the scientific and expositional funds significantly optimized the ergonomics of the Museum staff's work with the collection of helminthological preparations.