ABI Sustaining: Supporting Biological Collections Computing with Specify

ABI Sustaining：支持指定的生物集合计算

• 批准号: 1565098
• 负责人: James Beach
• 金额: $ 81.65万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ABI; Sustaining; Supporting; Biological; Collections

For more than 250 years, thousands of professional, student and citizen biologists have strived through wide-ranging but detailed exploration to discover, observe and document the diversity of earth's wild species. Hundreds of biological museums across the U.S. hold the research products from innumerable biotic surveys and inventories, namely millions of curated specimens of animals and plants. Those unique vouchers document the identity and distribution of species across the planet, as well as document geographical patterns of biological diversity. Research based on biological collections not only generates scientific knowledge of species and their distributions, it also employs specimen data in computational models for predicting the biological impacts of climate change. Specimen data are also used for informing national and regional conservation priorities, and in environmental education and professional training. The primary goal of the Specify Project is to provide software to mobilize all of the taxonomic, geographic and ecological information associated with museum specimens to internet-based information portals for public access, policy and research. Specify is used by 284 U.S. research collections to digitize, manage and publish specimen holdings data. The software platform also facilitates the tracking of museum specimen transactions and legal compliance for the acquisition and curation of new collections from earth?s remaining wild places. Specify modernizes and extends the impact of the investment made by biological researchers, leveraging the truly monumental, three-century investment in biological survey and inventory. Specify Project software accomplishes this by facilitating the publication of data previously sequestered in museum cabinets with software support to computerize the information and to bring it to freely-accessible, open access, web information portals. During the course of this effort, the Specify Software Project will derive and implement a business model to financially support its core software engineering and technical support activities. Through community consensus-gathering activities, we will obtain advice from university administrators, museum and research directors from biological collections institutions around the country in order to identify a revenue model to sustain the technical support activities of the Specify Software Project. We will interview representatives of U.S. research institutions currently using Specify to assess the likelihood of their participation in various fee-based and consortium membership-based options for ongoing Specify support and software updates. In consultation with business advisors we will synthesize the findings of those community activities and propose a revenue structure for financial support of the Specify Project. We will undertake 'sustaining development' (maintenance and completion) of software for the Specify 7 data management platform. The Specify Project will continue to provide technical help desk support services, including outreach and training for U.S. research collections institutions using and adopting Specify for biological specimen data processing. The Specify Software Project web site is located at: http://specifysoftware.org.

250多年来，数以千计的专业生物学家、学生生物学家和公民生物学家通过广泛而详细的探索，努力发现、观察和记录地球上野生物种的多样性。全美数以百计的生物博物馆拥有来自无数生物调查和清单的研究产品，即数百万经过精选的动植物标本。这些独特的凭证记录了物种在地球上的身份和分布，以及生物多样性的地理模式。基于生物收集的研究不仅产生关于物种及其分布的科学知识，还利用计算模型中的样本数据来预测气候变化的生物影响。标本数据还用于为国家和地区的保护优先事项提供信息，并用于环境教育和专业培训。指定项目的主要目标是提供软件，将与博物馆标本有关的所有分类、地理和生态信息发布到互联网信息门户网站，供公众查阅、制定政策和进行研究。Specify被284个美国研究收藏用来数字化、管理和发布标本保有量数据。该软件平台还方便了对博物馆标本交易的跟踪，以及从地球上剩余的野生地方S获取和管理新收藏品的合法合规性。Specify利用三个世纪以来在生物调查和库存方面的真正不朽的投资，使生物研究人员的投资具有现代化的影响并扩大了其影响。指定项目软件通过以下方式实现这一点：通过软件支持将信息计算机化，并将其带到可自由访问、开放访问的网络信息门户网站，从而促进了以前隔离在博物馆橱柜中的数据的发布。在这一努力过程中，指定软件项目将衍生和实施一种业务模式，为其核心软件工程和技术支持活动提供财政支持。通过社区共识收集活动，我们将从全国各地的大学管理人员、博物馆和生物收藏机构的研究主管那里获得建议，以确定一个收入模式，以支持指定软件项目的技术支持活动。我们将采访目前正在使用Specify的美国研究机构的代表，以评估他们参与各种收费和基于联盟成员资格的选项的可能性，以获得持续的Specify支持和软件更新。在与商业顾问协商后，我们将综合这些社区活动的结果，并为指定项目的财务支持提出一个收入结构。我们将为Specify 7数据管理平台进行软件的持续开发(维护和完成)。Specify项目将继续提供技术服务台支持服务，包括为使用和采用Specify进行生物标本数据处理的美国研究收藏机构提供外联和培训。指定软件项目网站位于：http://specifysoftware.org.