A Workshop:Development of a National Systematics Infrastructure: A Virtual Instrument for the 21st Century

研讨会：国家系统学基础设施的开发：21 世纪的虚拟仪器

• 批准号: 0352943
• 负责人: Dennis Stevenson
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-10-01 至 2005-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0352943&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Development; National; Systematics; Infrastructure

A workshop is being organized to address the problems of making available to researchers, policy makers, educators and the general public the breadth of information in the vast wealth of the nation's collections of biological specimens. We have included individuals (1) who have experience in many aspects of collections-based research in the nations museums and universities, (2) whose research results would benefit from a biodiversity observatory, (3) who are familiar with existing database initiatives and their implementation (4) who represent major national museum collections to smaller regional collections and university based collections. Our emphasis has been to identify participants who think broadly and critically about the scientific mission of biological museum collections and who integrate the diverse needs and capabilities of user community of people discovering and describing new species into a coherent and achievable set of goals. To accomplish this, we have deliberately placed an emphasis on working scientists who are familiar with emerging informatics and cybertechnologies. They will develop the goals and structure for a biodiversity observatory so that the technical details can be effectively and efficiently developed. A report from the workshop will be submitted to NSF in draft form no later than February 2004 and published in final form by May 2004. The report will be distributed to numerous scientific societies for comment and will be made available on the World Wide Web. In addition, one or more scientific papers will be generated from the workshop for publication in leading journals. Implications for such a taxonomic "instrument" for education are profound and broad. In terms of formal education, students at any college could potentially take a virtual on-line taxonomic class from a world authority and see specimens in real time from collections across the country and compare these to their own observations. This would help to inspire and educate a new generation of field biologists, as well as educate all biologists who need to identify species in their own research to do so. Biologists working for a government organization or NGO could learn to identify diverse species on-line, facilitating their own work. Teachers at K-12 levels, as well as motivated students, could creatively use this vast store of our knowledge of taxonomy to build new curricula and new ways of visiting the natural environment. This will contribute to the ability of both scientists and the general public to understand the environment and know what they are seeing and, thus actively participate in the inventory of biodiversity and help establish policy and priorities in the use and conservation of different species and habitats..

正在组织一个研讨会，以解决向研究人员、政策制定者、教育工作者和公众提供国家丰富的生物标本收藏中的广泛信息的问题。我们包括以下个人：(1) 在国家博物馆和大学进行基于馆藏的研究的许多方面具有经验的人，(2) 其研究成果将受益于生物多样性观测站的人，(3) 熟悉现有数据库计划及其实施 (4) 谁代表主要的国家博物馆收藏、较小的地区收藏和大学收藏。 我们的重点是确定那些对生物博物馆藏品的科学使命进行广泛和批判性思考的参与者，以及将发现和描述新物种的用户群体的不同需求和能力整合到一套连贯且可实现的目标中的参与者。 为了实现这一目标，我们特意将重点放在熟悉新兴信息学和网络技术的工作科学家身上。 他们将为生物多样性观测站制定目标和结构，以便有效且高效地制定技术细节。 研讨会的报告将在 2004 年 2 月之前以草稿形式提交给 NSF，并在 2004 年 5 月之前以最终形式发布。该报告将分发给众多科学协会征求意见，并将在万维网上提供。 此外，研讨会还将产生一篇或多篇科学论文，并在领先期刊上发表。这种分类学“工具”对教育的影响是深远而广泛的。 在正规教育方面，任何大学的学生都可以参加世界权威机构的虚拟在线分类学课程，实时查看全国各地收藏的标本，并将其与自己的观察结果进行比较。 这将有助于激励和教育新一代的野外生物学家，以及教育所有需要在自己的研究中识别物种的生物学家。 为政府组织或非政府组织工作的生物学家可以学习在线识别不同的物种，从而促进他们自己的工作。 K-12 级别的教师以及积极主动的学生可以创造性地利用我们丰富的分类学知识来构建新课程和参观自然环境的新方式。 这将有助于科学家和公众了解环境并了解他们所看到的内容，从而积极参与生物多样性清查，并帮助制定不同物种和栖息地的使用和保护的政策和优先事项。 。