SEI(BIO): Computing Support for Acquisition, Collaborative Curation, and Dissemination in Biodiversity Research

生物多样性研究的获取、协同管理和传播的计算支持生物多样性的绘制和跟踪是生物学的一个重要分支。目标是了解生态系统的显著特征及其与物种多样性和遗传的相互作用。动植物。研究了生物多样性科学家工作流程的三个组成部分：信息获取、协同馆藏管理和生物多样性研究成果的有效传播。将为每个活动推力构建相互连接的原型。采集工作将侧重于实地的数据收集，并在考察期间使研究人员小组之间的数据相关协作成为可能。赠款接受者将为小型设备设计新颖的接口，这样可以节省电力，最小化数据导航工作，并通过在空间中虚拟地放置共享信息堆来扩展屏幕空间。协作管理工作将创建ColCura，一个联合生物多样性收集的基础设施。这个系统的新颖之处在于，任何地方的研究人员都可以贡献人工制品，也可以贡献关于现有收集项目的元数据。这项工作将特别利用信息的地理参考来连接其他不相关的数据项。与传播相关的活动将开发半定向浏览生物多样性信息的新方法。研究小组将约束满足方法和信息项的动态链接结合到一个专门用于生物多样性数据的新型浏览器中。这款浏览器的主要目标之一就是鼓励意外发现。生物多样性研究本质上影响着所有国家及其居民。在贾斯珀岭进行的局部长期研究为研究发展对动植物生命的影响提供了宝贵的详细见解。在斯坦福大学，这项工作将为生物学专业的学生提供与计算机科学专业的同学互动的独特机会。加州学院直接帮助第三世界国家了解涉及自然资源的经济权衡。全球贸易和旅行加速了生物变化在全球的传播。因此，加快我们理解这些变化的努力变得越来越紧迫。

ABSTRACTNSF-0430448Garcia-Molina, HectorComputing Support for Acquisition, Collaborative Curation, and Dissemination in Biodiversity ResearchThe mapping and tracking of biodiversity is an important subfield of Biology. The goal is to understand the salient characteristics of ecosystems and their interactions with the diversity of species and genetics of .flora and fauna. Three components in the workflow of biodiversity scientists: information acquisition, collaborative collection curation, and effective dissemination of biodiversity research results will be studied. Interconnected prototypes will be constructed for each of these activity thrusts. The acquisition work will focus on data collection in the field, and on enabling data-related collaboration among small groups of researchers during expeditions. The grant recipients will design novel interfaces for small devices such that power is conserved, data navigation effort is minimized, and screen space is expanded by virtually placing shared information piles in space. Collaborative curation efforts will create ColCura, an infrastructure for federating biodiversity collections. The novel feature of this system will be that researchers everywhere can contribute artifacts, but also metadata about existing collection items. This work will particularly exploit the geo-referencing of information to connect otherwise disjoint data items. Dissemination-related activities will develop novel methods for semi-directed browsing of biodiversity information. The research team will combine a mixture of constraint satisfaction methods and dynamic linkage of information items into a novel browser that is specialized to biodiversity data. One of this browser's main goals will be to encourage serendipitous discovery. Biodiversity research by its nature greatly impacts all nations and their inhabitants. The localized, long-term studies at Jasper Ridge provide invaluable detailed insight into the effects of development on plant and animal life. At Stanford the work will offer unique opportunities for Biology students to interact with their peers in Computer Science. The California Academy directly helps 3rd World nations understand economic tradeoffs that involve their natural resources. Global trade and travel speed the spread of biological change across the globe. Accelerating our efforts to understand these changes is therefore of increasing urgency.