ABI Development: An Online Registry for Biorepositories and Other Scientific Collections

史密森学会获得一笔赠款，用于制定一个概念性计划，用于建立一个单一的、可持续的科学收藏目录，该目录将与两个公共门户网站连接：一个用于生物储存库，另一个用于所有科学学科的收藏，包括地球和空间科学、人类学、考古学、生物医学以及农业和技术等应用领域。 拟议的全球科学收藏登记处将被视为现有全球生物储存库登记处的跨学科扩展，目前包括7000多项记录。将与社区成员举行两次需求收集会议，以在早先为制定标准化馆藏描述符所作努力的基础上再接再厉，并为改进版数据库和两个门户收集投入。规划过程将为登记册内容制定规格和标准，包括：机构或收藏品的唯一标识符;地址和联系信息;关于每个机构或收藏品的文字说明和一些分类数据;以及搜索、过滤和下载功能。将指定通用网络服务功能，以标准化在线访问生物储存库及其收藏品信息的方式。 将与参与收集数据管理的其他网络基础设施项目密切沟通，制定系统的实施和长期托管及维护计划。获取公共资助研究产生的数字数据和出版物是一个越来越重要的目标，因为再利用比再发现更有效。科学收藏品中的研究对象也是如此。个体标本和样本的数字化是非常有价值的，但它也是缓慢和昂贵的。关于藏品的在线描述和标准化数据可以在完全数字化之前提高其可见度、使用和影响力。全面的馆藏登记册还提供标准化词汇，可用于将不同的馆藏和不同类型的馆藏联系起来，从而增加其可访问性和研究影响。科学收藏品的在线登记将提高对收藏品、其多样性和深度及其各种研究用途的普遍认识。研究人员将能够扩大他们在追求跨学科研究挑战的研究收藏的类型。教师和学生将获得从微生物到月球岩石的收藏品的多样性的赞赏，并了解如何基于对象的研究（而不是观测研究）正在对已经积累了几个世纪的标本和收藏品进行。

The Smithsonian Institution is awarded a grant to develop a conceptual plan for a single, sustainable directory of scientific collections that will interface with two public portals: one for biorepositories and another for collections in all scientific disciplines including earth and space sciences, anthropology, archaeology, biomedicine, and applied fields such as agriculture and technology. The proposed Global Registry of Scientific Collections will be conceived as an interdisciplinary extension of the existing Global Registry of Biorepositories currently including over 7000 records. Two requirements gathering meetings will be held with community members to build on earlier attempts to develop standardized descriptors of collections and to gather input into improved versions of the database and two portals. The planning process will develop specifications and standards for the registry content including: unique identifiers for institutions or collections; address and contact information; text descriptions and some categorical data about each institution or collection; and search, filter and download functions. Common web services functions will be specified to standardizing the way that information about biorepositories and their collections is accessed online. Plans for implementation and for long term hosting and maintenance of the system will be developed in close communication with other cyberinfrastructure projects involved in collections data management. Access to digital data and publications resulting from publicly funded research is an increasingly important goal because re-use is more efficient than re-discovery. The same is true for the research objects stored in scientific collections. Digitization of individual specimens and samples is extremely valuable but it is also slow and expensive. Online descriptions and standardized data about collections can increase their visibility, use and impact prior to complete digitization. Comprehensive registries of collections also provide standardized vocabularies that can be used to link different collections and types of collections, thereby increasing their accessibility and research impact. Online registries of scientific collections will raise the general awareness of collections, their diversity and depth, and their varied research uses. Researchers will be able to broaden the types of collections they study in pursuit of interdisciplinary research challenges. Teachers and students will gain an appreciation of the diversity of collections from microbes to moon rocks, and an understanding of how object-based research (as opposed to observational research) is being conducted on specimens and collections that have been amassed for centuries.