Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Development of a subject indexing system for collections of the north hemispherical flowering plant genus Campanula

馆藏主题标引在生物多样性研究中起着关键作用。以一种示例性的方式，将为风铃(钟状花)的集合实现主题索引系统，风铃是物种最丰富的开花植物属之一。基于网络分类学编辑平台的现有软件组件，主题索引系统将结合三项功能：数据储存库、编辑和信息门户。不同的收集类型(如标本标本、文本、图像、原始数据)的整合具有特别重要的意义。一个注释系统将促进主题索引以及元数据的方便生成和编辑。收集信息的链接将加快研究进程，便利结果的重现性，同时加强收集。计划中的试点项目将受益于与柏林-达莱姆植物园和植物博物馆(BGBM)以及达莱姆植物科学中心(DCPS)现有重点研究领域(欧洲和地中海地区的多样性；开花植物目Asterales的进化和生物多样性)的协同效应。在那里，研究数据和材料正在制作或已经有相当大的数量。拟议的馆藏主题索引系统将对目前建立国家和国际生物多样性研究的信息基础设施作出重要贡献。

Subject indexing of collections plays a key role in biodiversity research. In an exemplary way a subject indexing system will be realised for collections of Campanula (bell flowers), which is one of the species-richest flowering plant genera. Based on existing software components of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, the subject indexing system will combine three functionalities: data repository, editor and information portal. The integration of heterogeneous collection types (e.g. herbarium specimens, texts, images, primary data) is of particular significance. An annotation system will facilitate the subject indexing and the convenient generating and editing of metadata. The linkage of collection information will accelerate the research process, facilitate the reproducibility of results and at the same time enhance collections. The planned pilot project will profit from synergies with existing focal areas of research (Diversity of Europe and the Mediterranean area; Evolution and biodiversity of the flowering plant order Asterales) at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM) as well as at the Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS). There, research data and materials are being produced or are already available in considerable quantities. The proposed subject indexing system for collections will be made available in a way that it provides an important contribution to the current establishment of the information infrastructure of national and international biodiversity research.