Collaborative Research: Conference: Supporting inclusive and sustainable research infrastructure for systematics (SISRIS) by connecting scientists and their specimens.

协作研究：会议：通过连接科学家及其标本，支持包容性和可持续的系统学研究基础设施 (SISRIS)。

基本信息

批准号：
2247631
负责人：
Andrea Weeks
金额：
$ 7.95万
依托单位：
George Mason University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-03-15 至 2025-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247631&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Conference Supporting inclusive

项目摘要

This project will create a conference-based workshop and symposium at the annual Association for Southeastern Biologists conference (March 2023; Winston-Salem, North Carolina) and the Botany 2023 conference (July 2023; Boise, Idaho) to train scientists in new computational skills and practices that build inclusive and sustainable infrastructure for collections-based research. Recent advances in web-based software now make it possible for taxonomic experts to receive greater professional recognition and citation of their digitized biological specimens and identifications. Use of these software tools can increase the visibility of scientists as well as modernize the professional rewards system to support the development of taxonomic expertise. However, creating a self-sustaining cycle of specimen attribution and citation that leverages this new software requires greater awareness by collections-based researchers and cultural change in how taxonomic expertise is credited. At the heart of this change is ensuring that the names of the people who collect and identify biological research specimens are disambiguated and associated with globally unique identifiers. Accurate people-data are an essential part of the vision for an extended specimen network because they link groups of specimens across institutions and uncover events in the history of science. The project will develop research infrastructure that is more inclusive, because taxonomic contributions by all people would be acknowledged explicitly, and sustainable, because improved recognition of taxonomic expertise would help build and sustain this scientific workforce in the US.Workshops will include 75 participants and the symposia will feature 12 diverse speakers, who will reach an anticipated audience of 190 collections-based researchers. Speakers will deliver case-studies that illustrate integrating people-data into the digital infrastructure of biological research collections. The workshop will comprise four hours of instruction about the use of globally unique identifiers for people within the biodiversity informatics open-access software services of Bionomia and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and their interaction with Open Researcher and Contributor ID, Wikidata, and Zenodo. Participants will learn how to use these tools as part of documenting their own collections-based research activities and as a means of community-level change in how taxonomic expertise is acknowledged. For the latter objective, participants will practice attributing US herbarium specimens to historical people from underrepresented groups, which will increase the visibility of these scientists’ intellectual contributions to biological research collections as well as improve the curation of digitized US biological research collections. Extensive plans are included to ensure broad participation, including outreach methods to underrepresented groups and support to participants in the form of travel stipend and dependent-care assistance. Workshop and symposium outcomes will be assessed rigorously and shared with the broader systematics community as a model for improving how taxonomic expertise is credited.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.

该项目将在东南生物学家协会年度会议（2023 年 3 月；北卡罗来纳州温斯顿塞勒姆）和 2023 年植物学会议（2023 年 7 月；爱达荷州博伊西）上举办一个基于会议的研讨会和研讨会，以培训科学家新的计算技能为基于馆藏的研究构建包容性和可持续基础设施的实践现在使分类学专家的数字化生物学获得更多的专业认可和引用成为可能。使用这些软件工具可以提高科学家的知名度，并使专业奖励系统现代化，以支持分类学专业知识的发展，但是，创建一个利用这种新软件的自我维持的样本归属和引用循环需要。以收藏为基础的研究人员对分类学专业知识的认可方式有了更高的认识，这一变化的核心是确保收集和识别生物研究标本的人员的姓名消除歧义，并与全球唯一的标识符相关联。准确的人员数据是扩展标本网络愿景的重要组成部分，因为它们将跨机构的标本组联系起来并揭示科学史上的事件。该项目将开发更具包容性的研究基础设施，因为所有人的分类学贡献。将得到明确且可持续的认可，因为提高对分类学专业知识的认可将有助于在美国建立和维持这支科学队伍。研讨会将包括 75 名参与者，研讨会将有 12 名不同的演讲者，预计观众人数将达到 190 人演讲者将提供案例研究，说明如何将人员数据整合到生物研究馆藏的数字基础设施中。该研讨会将包括四个小时的关于在生物多样性信息学开放获取中使用全球唯一标识符的指导。 Bionomia 和全球生物多样性信息设施的软件服务以及他们与开放研究员和贡献者 ID、维基数据和 Zenodo 的互动将学习如何使用这些工具作为记录他们自己的基于馆藏的研究活动和参与者的一部分。作为社区层面改变分类学专业知识认可方式的一种手段，参与者将练习将美国植物标本归于代表性不足群体的历史人物，这将提高这些科学家对生物研究收藏的智力贡献的可见度。还包括改善数字化美国生物研究馆藏的管理，以确保广泛参与，包括向代表性不足的群体提供推广方法以及以旅行津贴和家属护理援助研讨会和支持的形式提供支持。研讨会的成果将受到严格评估，并与更广泛的系统学界分享，作为改善分类学专业知识认可方式的模型。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。