Collaborative Biodiversity Collections Computing

堪萨斯大学研究中心。获得一笔赠款，用于继续开发和维护管理生物标本的Specify软件（www.specifysoftware.org）。该奖项提供Specify版本6软件的持续维护和支持，完成和完善基本功能，以及为软件制定长期可持续发展计划。 Specify软件项目通过强大的、专业设计的标本数据管理软件支持生物样本计算。Specify是一个分层的软件平台，旨在与Internet服务集成，并可通过插件进行扩展。Specify是用Java编写的，在三种常见的桌面环境中运行：Windows，Mac OS X和Linux。它是开源许可的，可以免费下载。 Specify是美国生物多样性研究中心和博物馆中使用最广泛的计算平台。它目前是美国90个机构的189个馆藏的主要生产数据库系统。国际上的兴趣也很高，41个机构的69个馆藏使用它来计算其馆藏信息。在过去的四年NSF奖期间，Specify的采用率平均每年增长16%，自1998年NSF开始资助该项目以来，Specify的采用率一直保持着类似的增长率。将物种信息从生物收集到互联网仍然是一个巨大的挑战，需要软件，软件支持和创新的网络服务来收集数据工作流程。与博物馆凭证标本相关的分类和地理信息是记录地球上生命的身份和分布的国际数据宝藏。除了支持系统学和生态学研究的主要作用外，这些物种发生数据对于分析和预测全球气候变化，物种入侵和其他类型的大规模环境扰动造成的生物影响非常有用。该项目是一项为期10年的努力的一部分，旨在收集和动员与美国研究收藏中的生物标本有关的科学信息。该项目的图像和数字化数据将被纳入在线国家资源，如社区战略计划所述，可在http://digbiocol.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/digistratplanfinaldraft.pdf上查阅。

The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. is awarded a grant for continued development and maintenance of the Specify software for managing biological collections (http://www.specifysoftware.org) . This award provides for continued maintenance and support of the Specify version 6 software, completion and refinement of essential functionality, and for development of a long-term sustainability plan for the software. The Specify Software Project supports biological collections computing with robust, professionally-engineered specimen data management software. Specify is a layered software platform designed for integration with internet services, and is extendible through plug-ins. Specify is written in Java and runs identically on the three common desktop environments: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It is open source licensed and is free for downloading. Specify is the most widely used computing platform in U.S. biodiversity research centers and museums. It is currently the primary, production database system for 189 U.S. collections located at 90 institutions. International interest is also high with 69 collections at 41 institutions using it to computerize their holdings information. During the previous four-year NSF award period, Specify adoption increased an average of 16% per year and it has had a similar growth rate since 1998 when NSF began funding the project.Mobilizing species information from biological collections to the Internet remains a large challenge, and requires software, software support and innovative network services for collection data workflows. The taxonomic and geographic information associated with museum voucher specimens is an international treasure of data documenting the identity and distribution of life on earth. In addition to their primary role in supporting systematics and ecological research, this species occurrence data is extremely useful for analyzing and predicting biological impacts caused by global scale climate change, species invasions, and other kinds of large-scale environmental perturbation. This project is part of a 10-year effort to digitize and mobilize the scientific information associated with biological specimens held in U.S. research collections. The images and digitized data from this project will be integrated into the online national resource as outlined in the community strategic plan available at http://digbiocol.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/digistratplanfinaldraft.pdf.