Duke University (Duke Lemur Center)

The Duke Lemur Center (DLC) will curate medical data collected over nearly 50 years from 4,200 individuals representing more than 40 different taxa of lemurs, lorises, galagos, and tarsiers. The data will be used to improve colony management and monitoring animal health, ensuring the long-term survival of the collection and increasing its value to researchers in diverse fields of inquiry. Project activities include data importation, mapping, and restructuring; data cleaning and verification; incorporation of data into the DLC animal database; data use, sharing, and release; and ongoing preservation of paper records and extraction of embedded descriptive data. Results will be disseminated through DLC's website, publication in a peer-reviewed journal, submission to a curated data repository, and through presentations and posters at professional meetings.