ITR/IM: An Internet Environment for BioDiversity Survey Collaboration and Verification

ITR/IM：生物多样性调查协作和验证的互联网环境

• 批准号: 0113918
• 负责人: Patrick Heidorn
• 金额: $ 47.59万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2006-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0113918&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; IM; Internet; Environment; BioDiversity

Much field data for ecology and biodiversity studies uses data collected from hundreds of mostly novice collaborators. In order to address the issues of distributed intelligence, field support, mobile computing, remote training, data quality and coordination of information across time and space, with real-time expert feedback, a BioDiversity Collaboration Environment (BDCE) will be developed.Information technology could fundamentally change the way we understand the world and the way science in done. Substantial improvements in science can be made if the information technology is carefully developed and integrated. The system will integrate collaboration, collection development, information retrieval, and information creation and management. A key component of the technology is the development of software agents that will analyze the needs of survey members, prior surveys of the same site, museum record and other resources to create a customized collection of digital support material that can be put on disk and taken to the field, thereby overcoming bandwidth problems. The DBCE will be developed within the framework of a project being conducted by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which increases the impact of the research by it use in hundreds of surveys across Illinois. This is a largely volunteer effort, including high school students, for the data collection. The education to students and other non-scientists provides significant impact, beyond the information technology impact of smart devices.

生态学和生物多样性研究的许多现场数据使用了从数百名主要是新手合作者那里收集的数据。为了解决分布式智能、现场支持、移动计算、远程培训、数据质量和跨时间和空间的信息协调等问题，将开发一个具有实时专家反馈的生物多样性协作环境(BDCE)。信息技术可能从根本上改变我们理解世界的方式和科学的完成方式。如果仔细开发和整合信息技术，科学可以取得实质性的进步。该系统将整合协作、馆藏开发、信息检索以及信息创建和管理。这项技术的一个关键组成部分是开发软件代理，它将分析调查成员的需求、对同一地点的先前调查、博物馆记录和其他资源，以创建可放在磁盘上并带到实地的定制数字支持材料集合，从而克服带宽问题。DBCE将在伊利诺伊州自然资源部正在进行的一个项目的框架内开发，该项目通过在伊利诺伊州各地的数百次调查中使用该项目来增加研究的影响。这在很大程度上是包括高中生在内的志愿者为收集数据所做的努力。对学生和其他非科学家的教育提供了重大影响，超出了智能设备对信息技术的影响。