Workshop on the Infrastructure Requirements and Design Considerations for a Federation of Botanical Specimen Database, Summer 1994 University of California, Berkeley

在过去的五年中，越来越多的植物收藏开始在其机构内建立标本数据库。 1989年在美国国家科学基金会举办的一个研讨会促进了这项活动，讨论了植物标本数据库建设的趋势和优先事项。 1993年，MITRE联合会发布了关于自然历史博物馆和植物园独立博物馆信息管理需求的报告。 也是在1993年，能源部举办了一个讲习班，讨论在分子生物学界内建立社区数据库的问题，代表希望成为北美国家植物标本数据库区域中心的各机构的植物学家讨论了这一项目的框架。 随着这些项目和许多其他项目的计划或部分正在进行中，重要的是，这些项目的设计，以提高在分布式网络环境中的互操作性。 该提案要求资金，使30植物学家，其他生物学家，和信息技术专家讨论影响植物标本数据库的互操作性联合会的设计问题。 讲习班的成果将是一份报告，在网络上普遍分发，并提交给国家科学基金会，其中将概述基础设施和数据库设计考虑因素，这些因素将指导开发项目选择或设计增强互操作性的系统。

During the last five years, an increasing number of botanical collections have begun to develop specimen databases within their institutions. This activity was fostered by a workshop held at the National Science Foundation in 1989 to discuss trends and priorities in the construction of botanical specimen databases. In 1993, the MITRE Consortium released its report on the information management needs of free-standing museums of natural history museums and botanical gardens. Also in 1993, the Department of Energy held a workshop to discuss the development of community databases within the molecular biological community and botanists representing various institutions that wished to serve as regional centers for a national botanical specimen database for North America discussed a framework for such a project. With these and many other projects planned or partly underway, it is important that these projects are designed to enhance interoperability in a distributed networked environment. This proposal requests funds to bring 30 botanist, other biologists, and information technologist to discuss issues affecting the design of an interoperable federation of botanical specimen databases. The result of the workshop will be a report for general distribution over the network as well as to the National Science Foundation that will outline the infrastructure and database design considerations that will guide development projects in the selection or design of systems that enhance interoperability.