Collaborative Research: Sustainable ABI: Arctos Sustainability

合作研究：可持续 ABI：Arctos 可持续性

• 批准号: 2034568
• 负责人: Christopher Jordan
• 金额: $ 28.72万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2034568&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Sustainable; ABI; Arctos

An award is made to three partner institutions — the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (Univ. California Berkeley), Museum of Southwestern Biology (Univ. New Mexico Albuquerque), and the Texas Advanced Computer Center (Univ. Texas Austin) — to perform critical technical and infrastructure work that will establish a sustainable framework for Arctos, a database and collection management system. The Arctos community is a group of museum-based professionals representing natural and cultural history collections at over 40 institutions that share in the governance, design, maintenance, and development of Arctos. A primary objective of the Arctos community is to make high quality data on biodiversity and cultural collections openly accessible and richly networked for multidisciplinary research and public understanding. This is accomplished through the Arctos online platform, which serves primary species and cultural data to national and international users. These data are used to advance knowledge in a diversity of disciplines and serve as an archival record for future generations. Additionally, the Arctos platform is used as an educational tool where students access raw data to design original inquiries. The Arctos community is dedicated to rigorous management of collections and their data, as well as mentoring and training the next generation of curators, collection managers, and scientists.Arctos views collections comprehensively and promotes linkages across biological, earth science, art, archival, and ethnographic collections to add value and relevance for education and research. For example, cultural and archival records often contribute temporal, ecological, and behavioral dimensions to biodiversity data from identifiable species components or observations. Many museums curate more than one type of collection, and Arctos provides a comprehensive management solution integrating diverse disciplines. For the last 20 years, Arctos has practiced the concept of the ‘extended specimen network’. The richly annotated data in Arctos creates a web of knowledge with deep comprehensive relationships between cataloged records and all of their derived and associated data, and by using reliable published resources for globally shared information such as taxonomy, people names, and geography. To sustain this community-driven infrastructure and resource, the Arctos database platform will complete migration to open-source technologies removing the need for costly software. Other benefits include stabilizing web services, query responses and delivery, spatial functionality, among other core features. The Arctos model of community engagement and development is attractive for collections of any size, including small institutions such as field stations that may lack IT infrastructure, because of its ease of cloud-based access, community mentorship, and enterprise-level platform at scaled pricing. Project activities and results will be accessible on the Arctos websites (arctos.database.museum and arctosdb.org).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

三个合作机构——脊椎动物博物馆（加州大学伯克利分校）、西南生物学博物馆（新墨西哥大学阿尔伯克基分校）和德克萨斯高级计算机中心（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）——获得了一项奖项，以执行关键技术Arctos 社区是一群以博物馆为基础的专业人士，代表 40 多个机构的自然和文化历史收藏品，共同参与治理、设计、 Arctos 社区的主要目标是公开获取有关生物多样性和文化收藏的高质量数据，并进行丰富的网络化，以便进行多学科研究和公众理解。这是通过服务于主要物种的 Arctos 在线平台来实现的。这些数据用于促进各种学科的知识发展，并作为后代的档案记录。此外，Arctos 平台还被用作教育工具，学生可以通过该工具访问原始数据来设计原创作品。查询。 Arctos 社区致力于对藏品及其数据进行严格管理，并指导和培训下一代策展人、藏品管理者和科学家。Arctos 全面审视藏品，并促进生物、地球科学、艺术、档案和民族志之间的联系例如，文化和档案记录通常会从可识别的物种组成部分或观察中为生物多样性数据提供时间、生态和行为维度，而 Arctos 则管理不止一种类型的藏品。在过去的 20 年里，Arctos 提供了整合不同学科的综合管理解决方案，Arctos 中的丰富注释数据创建了一个知识网络，在编目记录及其所有记录之间具有深刻的综合关系。派生和相关数据，并通过使用可靠的已发布资源来获取全球共享信息（例如分类、人名和地理），为了维持这种社区驱动的基础设施和资源，Arctos 数据库平台将完成向开源技术的迁移，从而消除这种需求。为了其他好处包括稳定的网络服务、查询响应和交付、空间功能以及其他核心功能，Arrctos 的社区参与和开发模型对于任何规模的馆藏都具有吸引力，包括可能缺乏 IT 的小型机构。基础设施，因为其易于基于云的访问、社区指导和按比例定价的企业级平台可以在 Arctos 网站（arctos.database.museum 和 arctosdb.org）上访问。该奖项反映了这一点。通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。