ZooArchNet: Connecting zooarchaeological specimens to the biodiversity and archaeology data networks
ZooArchNet: Connecting zooarchaeological specimens to the biodiversity and archaeology data networks
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10.1371/journal.pone.0215369
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发表时间：
2019-04-12
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3.7
通讯作者：
Guralnick, Robert
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作者：
Lefebvre, Michelle J.;Brenskelle, Laura;Guralnick, Robert
跨学科合作和数据共享对于解决现代生物多样性危机背后的人类与环境相互作用的悠久历史至关重要。这种合作越来越多地受到来自各种学科界和数据源（包括生物学、古生物学和考古学领域）的开放获取数据的共享的促进和依赖。生物多样性开放数据共享的重大进展集中在新生物和古生物标本记录上，通过全球生物多样性信息设施提供了超过十亿条记录。但迄今为止，在整合生物多样性的重要考古来源（例如动物考古标本）方面所做的努力还较少。动物考古标本富含生物和文化遗产数据，记录了人类与动物和周围环境相互作用的几乎所有阶段，填补了生物多样性网络内古生物学和新生物学数据来源之间的关键空白。在这里，我们描述了调动动物考古标本特定生物和文化数据的技术进步。特别是，我们展示了生物多样性出版商 Vert-Net 使用的工作流程的改编，以将 Darwin Core 格式的动物考古数据转移到 GBIF 网络。我们还展示了如何通过与开放上下文平台的协作，使用链接的开放数据方法将现有的生物多样性发布机制与考古信息学发布机制连接起来。 ZooArchNet 发布的数据集的示例用于展示在开放获取数据的生物和考古来源之间建立这一迫切需要的桥梁的功效。这些技术进步和支持数据发布的努力被置于 ZooarchNet 的更大背景下，这是一个新项目，旨在围绕跨学科动物考古学数据和知识互连的新方法建立社区。
Interdisciplinary collaborations and data sharing are essential to addressing the long history of human-environmental interactions underlying the modern biodiversity crisis. Such collaborations are increasingly facilitated by, and dependent upon, sharing open access data from a variety of disciplinary communities and data sources, including those within biology, paleontology, and archaeology. Significant advances in biodiversity open data sharing have focused on neontological and paleontological specimen records, making available over a billion records through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. But to date, less effort has been placed on the integration of important archaeological sources of biodiversity, such as zooarchaeological specimens. Zooarchaeological specimens are rich with both biological and cultural heritage data documenting nearly all phases of human interaction with animals and the surrounding environment through time, filling a critical gap between paleontological and neontological sources of data within biodiversity networks. Here we describe technical advances for mobilizing zooarchaeological specimen-specific biological and cultural data. In particular, we demonstrate adaptations in the workflow used by biodiversity publisher Vert-Net to mobilize Darwin Core formatted zooarchaeological data to the GBIF network. We also show how a linked open data approach can be used to connect existing biodiversity publishing mechanisms with archaeoinformatics publishing mechanisms through collaboration with the Open Context platform. Examples of ZooArchNet published datasets are used to show the efficacy of creating this critically needed bridge between biological and archaeological sources of open access data. These technical advances and efforts to support data publication are placed in the larger context of ZooarchNet, a new project meant to build community around new approaches to interconnect zoorchaeological data and knowledge across disciplines.