Collaborative Workshop on the Mission and Design of a National Organization for Biodiversity Information, Spring 1996, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

目前，还没有一个单一的机构、机构、社会或团体肩负着协助生物收集工作的使命，使生物多样性信息自由、无缝地提供给科学和社会。这项任务将需要技术专长、政治领导和科学眼光，但尤其需要社会共同进行这项努力的决心和意愿。建立这样一个国家生物多样性信息企业的迫切需要已在许多国家和国际报告中得到确立。本次研讨会的目的是举办一个基于生物馆藏的社区和相关学科的规划和发展会议。在早些时候的一次研讨会上，该小组提议建立美国生物多样性信息组织，其使命声明如下：“创建或加强必要的基础设施和工具，将来自生物收集和相关生物多样性企业的信息组织成最大限度地可访问的形式，以满足社会和科学的需要。”该奖项的资助将允许参与者考虑这样一个以社区为基础的组织实现这一使命的承诺，信息的变化性质，技术上强大的解决方案，可以统一社区的大量生物多样性信息并将其与其他学科联系起来，以及这样一个组织的结构，功能和资金的问题和协议。本次研讨会对于US-OBI目标的发展，以及最终使世界上基于标本的大量信息可访问的努力非常重要。此外，这一努力对于收集广泛的基础，社区对US-OBI目标的认可是重要的。

9628764 Krishtalka Currently, there is no single institution, agency, society or group with the mission to assist biological collections with the task of making biodiversity information freely and seamlessly available to science and society. this mission will require technical expertise, political leadership and scientific vision, but particularly the determination and will for the community to undertake this effort together. The compelling need for such a national biodiversity information enterprise has been established in numerous national and international reports. The purpose of this workshop award is to hold a planning and development meeting for the biological collections based community and related disciplines. IN an earlier workshop, the group proposed the establishment of the US Organization for Biodiversity Information with the following mission statement, "Create or enhance the infrastructure and tools necessary to organize information derived from biological collections and associated biodiversity enterprises into a maximally accessible form to meet the needs of society and science." Funding for this award will allow participants to consider the promise of such a community-based organization to achieve this mission, the changing nature of information, the technologically powerful solutions that can unite the community's vast biodiversity information and link it with other disciplines, and the issues and protocols of such an organizations structure, function, and funding. This workshop is important for the development of the US-OBI goals, as well as the eventual effort to make accessible the vast quantity of information in the world's specimen based collections. In addition, this effort is important to gather a broad based, community endorsement of the goals of US-OBI.