SGER: An Experimental Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol Test Bed for Biological Collection and Taxonomic Data

SGER：用于生物收集和分类数据的实验性 Z39.50 信息检索协议测试台

• 批准号: 9811443
• 负责人: David Vieglais
• 金额: $ 9.94万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-15 至 2001-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9811443&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Experimental; Z39.50; Information; Retrieval

This work represents a potentially high-reward biodiversity informatics test bed project in an expansive community collaboration. The goal of the work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of standards-based access to biological specimen and species authority records in the support of Internet discovery of institutional specimen holding, collection cataloging, taxonomic research, and various management and educational applications of biodiversity data. The project will implement the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol for specimen and taxonomic authority databases. Deliverables will be (1) Z39.50 application profiles for specimen and species (taxon) data classes, (2) a consensus metadata dictionary for both classes of data, (3) a record syntax for both classes of data, and (4) prototype Z-client applications and Z-servers for specimen and species databases. A client-server Z39.50 information retrieval architecture for biological collections would include the following benefits: 1. Multiple specimen or species databases would be queried simultaneously through a single interface and return structured records from result sets for immediate utilization in local applications, such as database or analysis programs. 2. Query and retrieval among data in Z-servers in other intellectual communities would be integrated. This would allow, for example, (1) simultaneous spatial queries of specimen catalogs and map archives, (2) integrated retrieval of species (taxon) records from biological authority files with bibliographic records tagged with taxon subject headings from library catalogs, and (3) concurrent query and retrieval of taxonomic authority records, taxon images, and specimen voucher records from multiple sources. 3. Biological collections institutions could participate in a standards-based community architecture for data access and retrieval without surrendering their independence for the customization of local schema and record structures fo r local needs. The potential impact of a Z39.50 architecture for universal access to biological collections and species data, for the integration of species and specimen data with non-biological information, and as a community framework for all future biological collections data networking, is profound. This prototype and test bed project will be the first time biocollections and species information will be brought into an information standards framework shared by much broader and active information retrieval communities.

这项工作代表了一个潜在的高回报的生物多样性信息学测试平台项目在一个广泛的社区合作。这项工作的目标是证明基于标准的生物标本和物种权威记录访问的有效性，以支持机构标本保存，收集编目，分类研究以及生物多样性数据的各种管理和教育应用的互联网发现。该项目将实施标本和分类学权威数据库的ANSI/NISO Z39.50信息检索协议。交付成果将是(1)标本和物种（分类单元）数据类的Z39.50应用程序概要文件，(2)这两类数据的共识元数据字典，(3)这两类数据的记录语法，以及(4)标本和物种数据库的原型z -客户端应用程序和z -服务器。用于生物馆藏的客户机-服务器Z39.50信息检索体系结构将包括以下优点：多个标本或物种数据库将通过单一界面同时查询，并从结果集中返回结构化记录，以便在数据库或分析程序等本地应用程序中立即使用。2. 其他知识分子社区的z服务器之间的数据查询和检索将被集成。例如，这将允许(1)同时对标本目录和地图档案进行空间查询；(2)从带有图书馆目录中分类单元主题标题的书目记录的生物权威文件中对物种（分类单元）记录进行综合检索；(3)同时查询和检索来自多个来源的分类权威记录、分类单元图像和标本凭证记录。3. 生物馆藏机构可以参与基于标准的数据访问和检索社区架构，而无需放弃其独立性来定制本地模式和记录结构以满足本地需求。Z39.50体系结构对生物标本和物种数据的普遍访问、物种和标本数据与非生物信息的整合以及作为所有未来生物标本数据网络的社区框架的潜在影响是深远的。这个原型和试验台项目将是第一次将生物收集和物种信息纳入一个由更广泛和活跃的信息检索社区共享的信息标准框架。