The National Bryophyte Information Service: Implementation of a Scalable, Community Testbed for Botanical Collections Data Management

国家苔藓植物信息服务：实施可扩展的社区植物馆藏数据管理测试平台

• 批准号: 9723478
• 负责人: Robert Magill
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Missouri Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-15 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9723478&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Bryophyte; Information; Service; Implementation

This award will establish the National Bryophyte Information Service (NBIS), a distributed, Internet-based information service and testbed facility for the botanical research community. The mission of the NBIS is: (1) to provide immediate support for bryophyte collections data access that is urgently needed by several biodiversity projects and (2) to create a long-term, sustainable testbed for continuing research on biodiversity database and information system interoperability and scalability. This initiative is a multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration. Missouri Botanical Garden (www.mobot.org), the New York Botanical Garden (www.nybg.org) and the Bishop Museum (www.bishop.hawaii.org) will partner on research focussed on hybridizing Web and database technologies to improve access, interoperability, and scalability of biodiversity information systems. In order to provide simultaneous, integrated access to bryology research data in multiple systems we will design and implement a multidatabase federation. In addition, we will develop policies and mechanisms to support community curation of the databases and will deploy an individualized Web interface configuration service for researchers. The project will also participate in the Biological Collections Schema Library Project (www.bishop.hawaii.org/asc-cnc) and will, in part, utilize the Object Protocol Model database software from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These activities address an identified need to improve the social, access, and content scalability of biological databases. It also addresses one of the most important "Grand Challenge" problems facing bioinformatics, the problem of information- resource interoperability. We propose straightforward and effective solutions that can yield short-term benefits to the bryology community and, in the long term, complement and extend related theoretical and empirical bioinformatics research. This project is being jointly supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Geological Survey Biological Resources Division as part of the development of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (www.nbs.gov/nbii).

该奖项将建立国家苔藓信息服务(NBIS)，这是一个分布式的、基于互联网的信息服务和植物学研究社区的试验台设施。NBIS的任务是：(1)为几个生物多样性项目迫切需要的苔藓植物采集数据访问提供即时支持；(2)为生物多样性数据库和信息系统的互操作性和可扩展性的持续研究创建一个长期、可持续的试验台。这项倡议是一项多学科和机构间的协作。密苏里州植物园(www.mobot.org)、纽约植物园(www.narmg.org)和主教博物馆(www.bishop.hawai.org)将合作开展研究，重点是混合网络和数据库技术，以改善生物多样性信息系统的访问、互操作性和可扩展性。为了在多个系统中提供对苔藓学研究数据的同步、集成访问，我们将设计和实现一个多数据库联合。此外，我们将制定政策和机制，支持社区管理数据库，并将为研究人员部署个性化的Web界面配置服务。该项目还将参与生物收藏图式图书馆项目(www.bishop.hawai.org/asc-cnc)，并将部分利用劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室的对象协议模型数据库软件。这些活动解决了改善生物数据库的社会、访问和内容可伸缩性的确定需求。它还解决了生物信息学面临的最重要的“重大挑战”问题之一--信息资源互操作性问题。我们提出了简单有效的解决方案，可以为苔藓学界带来短期利益，从长远来看，我们将补充和扩展相关的理论和经验生物信息学研究。该项目由美国国家科学基金会和美国地质调查局生物资源司共同支持，作为国家生物信息基础设施(www.nbs.gov/nbii)发展的一部分。