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

国家生态观测网(NEON)的目标是提高科学家在大陆范围内检查和了解环境的能力。美国和波多黎各将在34个水生和47个陆上地点收集样本和样本，以补充地面自动测量和观测。霓虹灯收集的绝大多数样品和标本将保存在外部设施中，这些设施将负责对其进行长期管理和研究。遵循收集的最佳做法可以最大限度地提高样本、样本和研究数据的长期价值，包括解决目前设想之外的问题。因此，社区努力利用最佳实践至关重要。在该奖项的支持下，将于2016年11月中旬在科罗拉多州博尔德市的霓虹灯办公室举办为期两天的研讨会，将霓虹灯的工作人员、生态界的其他代表和生物多样性收集专家聚集在一起，讨论从现场收集样本和数据到管理、数字化和研究使用的整个过程。这些准则将广泛适用于计划向持有生物多样性收藏的机构提供标本和数字化数据的其他生态学家。讲习班将使生态和生物多样性采集界汇聚一堂，使生物多样性采集者更好地了解霓虹灯的目标和科学价值，并使霓虹灯更好地了解生物多样性采集物的目标和科学价值。NEON工作人员和NEON选定的其他人员将介绍实地收集协议和方法、将样本和数据转移到生物档案馆机构的战略和方法以及样本和数据的预期用途。收集专家的演讲将涉及接收样本、储存、数据库(至少包括分类、地点、日期、采集者、生境和生态学家提供的其他数据；分配唯一识别符)、向iDigBio或其他数据聚集者调集数据、使生物档案馆机构提供样本和数据(包括跨机构参考)、归属以及机构收集管理样本和数据的成本估算等方面的协议。在研讨会上，将制定管理样本、标本和数据以准备提交给储存库的指导方针和建议做法，并在霓虹灯下共享。

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.