Biological Collections Digitization: Towards Capture and Mobilization of Biodiversity Information Resources

生物馆藏数字化：迈向生物多样性信息资源的获取和动员

基本信息

批准号：
1039530
负责人：
Brian Wiegmann
金额：
$ 3.85万
依托单位：
North Carolina State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2010-05-15 至 2013-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1039530&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Biological Collections Digitization Towards Capture

项目摘要

Biological collections represent a significant national resource for research and applied biology, but these data are still widely unavailable in digital form. Development of a digital biodiversity information resource based on existing specimen data will provide an invaluable reference and baseline for future research activities. This award will organize and host two planning meetings that will bring together collections researchers and curators, natural history informatics specialists, and biological specimen imaging experts to develop and publish a 10-year strategic plan that will comprise a directed response toward meeting the data digitization challenge. The strategic planning project will identify issues relevant to the digitization of biological collections that will define the mission, scope, and magnitude of a program to address the capture and mobilization of specimen information, establish a community driven framework to develop, promote, revise, and distribute a strategic plan for biological collections digitization; and engage individuals from across diverse collections and institutions in the planning and implementation of a coordinated collections digitization initiative. Knowledge of biodiversity, obtained through the use of collections, is critically important for studies of invasive species, biological conservation programs, land management strategies, biotic responses to climate change, the spread of pathogenic organisms, and research and management activities of many kinds. A coordinated effort to digitize existing biological collections and to mobilize the data and images in a freely available online will have major, positive impacts on U.S. scientific achievement and global scientific collaboration.

生物收集是研究和应用生物学的重要国家资源，但是这些数据仍然在数字形式中广泛不可用。基于现有标本数据的数字生物多样性信息资源的开发将为未来的研究活动提供宝贵的参考和基准。该奖项将组织和举办两次计划会议，将收集研究人员和策展人，自然历史信息学专家以及生物标本成像专家汇集在一起，以制定和发布一项为期10年的战略计划，该计划将构成针对数据数字化挑战的指示响应。战略规划项目将确定与生物收集数字化有关的问题，这些问题将定义计划的任务，范围和计划，以解决标本信息的捕获和动员，建立一个社区驱动的框架来开发，促进，修订，修订和分发一项战略性的生物学收集计划；并让来自跨不同收藏品和机构的个人参与协调藏品数字化计划的计划和实施。通过使用收藏品获得的生物多样性知识对于对入侵物种，生物保护计划，土地管理策略，对气候变化的生物反应，致病生物的传播以及许多类型的研究和管理活动至关重要。一项协调的努力，以数字化现有的生物收集并在线免费提供数据和图像将对美国的科学成就和全球科学合作产生重大的积极影响。