Workshop: NEON Bioarchive, Bringing Together the Ecological and Collections Communities

国家生态观测网（氖）的目标是提高科学家在大陆尺度上检查和了解环境的能力。将在美国和波多黎各的34个水生和47个陆地地点收集补充地面自动测量和观察的标本和样本。氖收集的绝大多数样本和标本将保存在外部设施中，这些设施将负责长期管理和研究的可访问性。遵循最佳采集实践，可以最大限度地提高样本、标本和数据的长期研究价值，包括解决目前设想之外的问题。因此，社区努力利用最佳做法至关重要。 在该奖项的支持下，为期两天的研讨会将于2016年11月中旬在科罗拉多州博尔德的氖办公室举行，汇集氖的工作人员，生态社区的其他代表和生物多样性收集专家，以解决从现场收集到策展，数字化和研究使用的样本和数据的管理问题。这些准则将广泛适用于计划向生物多样性收藏机构提供标本和数字化数据的其他生态学家。 该讲习班将使生态学和生物多样性收藏界聚集在一起，使生物多样性收藏工作人员更好地了解氖的目标和科学价值，并使氖更好地了解生物多样性收藏的目标和科学价值。 由氖工作人员和其他由氖挑选的人员所作的发言将解释现场收集的协议和方法、将样本和数据转移到生物档案机构的战略和方法，以及样本和数据的预期用途。收藏专家的演讲将涵盖接收样本、储存、数据库（至少包括生态学家提供的分类、地点、日期、采集者、生境和其他数据;分配唯一标识符），将数据转移到iDigBio或其他数据聚合器，使生物档案机构提供样本和数据（包括跨机构参考）、归属以及机构收集的样本和数据的管理成本估计。在研讨会上，将制定并在氖范围内共享准备提交储存库的样本、标本和数据管理指南和推荐做法。

The goal of National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is to advance the ability of scientists to examine and understand the environment at a continental scale. Specimens and samples that complement automated measurements and observations on the ground will be collected at 34 aquatic and 47 terrestrial sites across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The vast majority of samples and specimens collected by NEON will be held at external facilities that will be responsible for their long-term curation and accessibility for research. Following best practices for collections maximizes the long-term value of the samples, specimens, and data for research, including for addressing questions beyond those presently envisioned. So, it is critical that community efforts leverage best-practices. With support from this award, A two-day workshop will be held in mid-November 2016, at the NEON offices in Boulder, Colorado, to bring together staff of NEON, other representatives of the ecological community, and biodiversity collections experts to address management of samples and data from the time they are collected in the field to curation, digitization, and research use. These guidelines will be broadly applicable to other ecologists planning on providing specimens and digitized data to institutions holding biodiversity collections. The workshop will bring together the ecology and biodiversity collections communities to engender a better understanding by biodiversity collections staff of the goals and scientific value of NEON and a better understanding by NEON of the goals and scientific value of biodiversity collections. Presentations by NEON staff and others selected by NEON will explain the field-collection protocols and methods, strategies and methods for transferring samples and data to Bioarchive institutions, and anticipated use of samples and data. Presentations by collections experts will cover protocols for receiving samples, storing, databasing (to include, as a minimum, taxonomy, locality, date, collectors, habitat and other data provided by ecologists; assignment of unique identifiers), mobilization of data to iDigBio or other data aggregators, making samples and data available from the Bioarchive institutions (including referencing across institutions), attribution, and estimates of the costs of managing samples and data by institutional collections. From the workshop, guidelines and recommended practices for managing samples, specimens, and data in preparation for submission to repositories will be developed and shared across NEON.