ABI Sustaining: Supporting Biological Collections Computing with Specify

ABI Sustaining：支持指定的生物集合计算

• 批准号: 1565098
• 负责人: James Beach
• 金额: $ 81.65万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ABI; Sustaining; Supporting; Biological; Collections

For more than 250 years, thousands of professional, student and citizen biologists have strived through wide-ranging but detailed exploration to discover, observe and document the diversity of earth's wild species. Hundreds of biological museums across the U.S. hold the research products from innumerable biotic surveys and inventories, namely millions of curated specimens of animals and plants. Those unique vouchers document the identity and distribution of species across the planet, as well as document geographical patterns of biological diversity. Research based on biological collections not only generates scientific knowledge of species and their distributions, it also employs specimen data in computational models for predicting the biological impacts of climate change. Specimen data are also used for informing national and regional conservation priorities, and in environmental education and professional training. The primary goal of the Specify Project is to provide software to mobilize all of the taxonomic, geographic and ecological information associated with museum specimens to internet-based information portals for public access, policy and research. Specify is used by 284 U.S. research collections to digitize, manage and publish specimen holdings data. The software platform also facilitates the tracking of museum specimen transactions and legal compliance for the acquisition and curation of new collections from earth?s remaining wild places. Specify modernizes and extends the impact of the investment made by biological researchers, leveraging the truly monumental, three-century investment in biological survey and inventory. Specify Project software accomplishes this by facilitating the publication of data previously sequestered in museum cabinets with software support to computerize the information and to bring it to freely-accessible, open access, web information portals. During the course of this effort, the Specify Software Project will derive and implement a business model to financially support its core software engineering and technical support activities. Through community consensus-gathering activities, we will obtain advice from university administrators, museum and research directors from biological collections institutions around the country in order to identify a revenue model to sustain the technical support activities of the Specify Software Project. We will interview representatives of U.S. research institutions currently using Specify to assess the likelihood of their participation in various fee-based and consortium membership-based options for ongoing Specify support and software updates. In consultation with business advisors we will synthesize the findings of those community activities and propose a revenue structure for financial support of the Specify Project. We will undertake 'sustaining development' (maintenance and completion) of software for the Specify 7 data management platform. The Specify Project will continue to provide technical help desk support services, including outreach and training for U.S. research collections institutions using and adopting Specify for biological specimen data processing. The Specify Software Project web site is located at: http://specifysoftware.org.

250多年来，成千上万的专业，学生和公民生物学家一直在进行广泛但详尽的探索，以发现，观察和记录地球野生物种的多样性。美国各地的数百家生物博物馆持有无数的生物调查和清单中的研究产品，即数百万个策划的动物和植物标本。这些独特的保证金记录了整个地球上物种的身份和分布，以及记录生物多样性的地理模式。基于生物学收集的研究不仅产生了物种及其分布的科学知识，而且还采用了计算模型中的标本数据来预测气候变化的生物学影响。标本数据还用于告知国家和地区保护的重点，以及环境教育和专业培训。指定项目的主要目标是提供软件，以动员与基于Internet的信息门户相关的所有分类，地理和生态信息，以进行公共访问，政策和研究。 284个美国研究收集使用指定来数字化，管理和发布标本持有数据。该软件平台还促进了博物馆标本交易的跟踪以及从地球剩下的野生场所获取和策划新收藏品的法律合规性。指定现代化并扩展了生物学研究人员进行的投资的影响，利用了真正巨大的三世纪生物调查和库存投资。指定项目软件通过促进先前在博物馆机柜中隔离的数据的发布来实现这一目标，并提供软件支持，以计算机化信息，并将其带入可自由访问，开放式访问，网络信息门户网站。在这项工作过程中，指定软件项目将得出并实施业务模型，以在财务上支持其核心软件工程和技术支持活动。通过社区共识的收集活动，我们将从全国各地的生物收藏机构的大学管理人员，博物馆和研究主管那里获得建议，以确定收入模型，以维持指定软件项目的技术支持活动。我们将采访当前使用指定的美国研究机构的代表，以评估他们参与各种基于收费和财团会员资格的选项的可能性，以进行持续的指定支持和软件更新。在与业务顾问协商时，我们将综合这些社区活动的发现，并提出收入结构，以提供指定项目的财务支持。我们将为指定7个数据管理平台的软件进行“维持开发”（维护和完成）。指定项目将继续提供技术帮助台支持服务，包括使用并采用用于生物标本数据处理的指定的美国研究收集机构的外展和培训。 指定软件项目网站位于以下位置：http：//specifysoftware.org。