Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

数字化 TCN：协作研究：内阁的关键：为全球生物多样性热点建立和维护研究数据库

• 批准号: 1410069
• 负责人: Zack Murrell
• 金额: $ 100.75万
• 依托单位: Appalachian State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1410069&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; Key

The southeastern USA is botanically rich, with areas of high global biodiversity in both the Appalachians and the coastal plain. Millions of plant specimens have been collected from this region over the past four centuries, and these specimens and the information they contain currently reside in museums, or herbaria, at universities across the area. Scientists study these specimens intently; however, it is difficult to retrieve information at broad geographic and taxonomic scales without pipelines to move the information electronically from the specimen to an accessible pool of data. SERNEC, or the SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections, is a large regional network of botanical experts and collections that has, through an NSF-sponsored research coordination network (RCN) project, developed critical skills in biodiversity informatics. The current project will allow the SERNEC group to make data available for over 3 million specimens using the latest photography and information capture tools and to engage citizen scientists and students to assist in transcribing and georeferencing this large dataset. The research generated through this project can help regional planners, land managers and communities to manage their natural resources in our ever-changing environment. The interaction of scientists, citizen scientists, and students will provide a synergy to build a research tool of an unparalleled scale and scope. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop an imaged and databased set of over 3 million specimens from over 100 herbaria in one of the most floristically diverse regions in North America and a global hotspot of plant diversity. This will represent a valuable data source for research on the response of vegetation to climate change, human development, and rapid migrations of introduced species. This region has been a biodiversity hotspot for 100 million years and this project should encourage research on changes over time to develop better predictive models as areas of biodiversity change. By partnering with Symbiota, Notes from Nature, GEOLocate, Adler Planetarium, iPlant/TACC, and Specify, the project will develop ways to best integrate various efforts for data accessibility. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program, and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).

美国东南部的植物性丰富，阿巴拉契亚族人和沿海平原都有全球生物多样性的地区。 在过去的四个世纪中，从该地区收集了数百万个植物标本，这些标本及其目前居住在该地区大学的博物馆或草药中的信息。 科学家专心研究这些标本。但是，在没有管道的情况下，很难在广泛的地理和分类学量表上检索信息，以电子方式将信息从样品移动到可访问的数据池。 Sernec或东南地区专业知识和收藏网络是植物专家和收藏的大型区域网络，通过NSF赞助的研究协调网络（RCN）项目，它在生物多样性信息学方面开发了关键技能。 当前的项目将允许Sernec集团使用最新的摄影和信息捕获工具为超过300万个标本提供数据，并吸引公民科学家和学生，以协助转录和地理化此大数据集。 通过该项目产生的研究可以帮助区域规划人员，土地经理和社区在我们不断变化的环境中管理其自然资源。 科学家，公民科学家和学生的相互作用将提供一种协同作用，以建立一个无与伦比的规模和范围的研究工具。 该项目的最终目标是开发一套成像和数据库，其中一组超过300万个标本，来自北美最花店最多样化的地区之一，是北美最花店的植物多样性的植物多样性热点。这将代表研究植被对气候变化，人类发展和引入物种快速迁移的研究的宝贵数据源。该地区一直是生物多样性热点已有1亿年了，该项目应鼓励对随着时间的推移的变化进行研究，以发展更好的预测模型，因为生物多样性的变化领域。通过与Symbiota合作，自然的注释，Geolocate，Adler Planetarium，Iplant/TACC和指定，该项目将开发方法，以最好地整合各种努力以供数据可访问性。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏计划数字化对生物收集数字化的国家资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。