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: 1410200
• 负责人: Leslie Goertzen
• 金额: $ 6.6万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1410200&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).

美国东南部植物资源丰富，阿巴拉契亚山脉和沿海平原都有全球生物多样性丰富的地区。 在过去的四个世纪里，人们从该地区采集了数百万植物标本，这些标本及其所包含的信息目前存放在该地区各大学的博物馆或植物标本室中。 科学家们专心研究这些标本；然而，如果没有将信息以电子方式从标本转移到可访问的数据池的管道，就很难在广泛的地理和分类尺度上检索信息。 SERNEC（东南区域专业知识和收藏网络）是一个由植物专家和收藏组成的大型区域网络，通过 NSF 资助的研究协调网络 (RCN) 项目，开发了生物多样性信息学方面的关键技能。 当前的项目将允许 SERNEC 小组使用最新的摄影和信息捕获工具提供超过 300 万个标本的数据，并让公民科学家和学生参与协助转录和地理配准这一大型数据集。 通过该项目产生的研究可以帮助区域规划者、土地管理者和社区在不断变化的环境中管理他们的自然资源。 科学家、公民科学家和学生的互动将产生协同作用，建立一个规模和范围无与伦比的研究工具。 该项目的最终目标是开发一套包含超过 300 万个标本的图像和数据库，这些标本来自北美植物多样性最丰富的地区之一和全球植物多样性热点地区的 100 多个植物标本室。这将为研究植被对气候变化的响应、人类发展和引进物种的快速迁徙提供宝贵的数据源。一亿年来，该地区一直是生物多样性热点地区，该项目应鼓励对随时间变化的研究，以开发更好的生物多样性变化预测模型。通过与 Symbiota、Notes from Nature、GEOLocate、Adler Planetarium、iPlant/TACC 和 Specify 合作，该项目将开发方法来最好地整合各种数据可访问性的努力。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过国家资源 (iDigBio.org) 提供。