ABI Innovation: Taxonomically intelligent data integration for a new Flora of Alaska

ABI 创新：阿拉斯加新植物区系的分类智能数据集成

• 批准号: 1759964
• 负责人: Stefanie Ickert-Bond
• 金额: $ 49.65万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ABI; Innovation; Taxonomically; intelligent; data

The plants of Alaska are a dynamic mixture of arctic, boreal and temperate rain forest species, assembled during millenia of migration between Asia and North America. They are also on the front lines of climate change, experiencing more rapidly changing conditions than plants elsewhere in the United States, resulting in rapid range shifts and local extinctions. The last comprehensive Flora of Alaska was completed fifty years ago, meaning that vast amounts of digital data and new taxonomic work remain poorly integrated; this is a major barrier to tracking the changing distribution of native Alaskan plants and new arrivals. This project will build the digital infrastructure to integrate names, herbarium specimens, images, citizen science observations, and taxonomic histories and descriptions. It will be innovative in using "taxon concepts" to weave together the data resources. Taxon concepts offer a level of information precision beyond that of scientific plant names alone, but have yet to be used in a multi-resource database such as this; a sub-goal of the project is to promote and facilitate the use of taxon concepts more widely. As the data infrastructure is developed, the database will be populated with existing digital and scanned-paper information about the plants of Alaska, and with new data (keys, taxonomic accounts) to be generated through the collaboration of stakeholders in a new Flora of Alaska. The project will also engage the wider community of plant enthusiasts to expand contemporary species occurrence data by incorporating iNaturalist observations. Project staff will give training workshops, and travel to Alaskan villages to work with teachers, thus involving Alaskan youth in the vital process of monitoring shifts in plant distributions. This project will build an online resource that integrates the most important information about the vascular plants of Alaska. It will link the new checklist of Alaskan plant names, a product of years of research by staff of the Herbarium of the University of Alaska (ALA), and the Alaska Center for Conservation Science (ACCS), to online flora resources (the Pan-Arctic Flora and the Flora of North America), and to information digitized from Hulten's Flora of Alaska, which is the standard reference work but now nearly fifty years old. This database will link taxonomic entities to data about the physical specimens in the herbarium and in other herbaria around the world, and to geo-referenced observations of plants throughout the state, showing images of digitized specimens and of plants in the field (via iNaturalist). The project will also engage in cutting-edge deconstruction of text descriptions in its constituent floras, parsing out data on phenotypic characters of each taxon, and presenting these data in the form of identification resources and contributions to plant knowledge-bases. At the core of this data integration will be informatics infrastructure based on taxon concepts, which capture not just the names of plants, but also the historical sense in which those names were used: the hypotheses of taxonomists. To populate this taxon concept data layer, we will develop and participate in a workflow for taxon concept mapping among names used in a core set of Alaskan flora publications. Project staff will actively engage with the community of Alaskan botanists in the development of a new Flora of Alaska. Data generated by stakeholders (including taxon reviews and occurrence data) will be incorporated into the project data platform. Beyond the contribution of significantly advancing our knowledge of the plants of Alaska, this project will benefit the university and society by training graduate and undergraduate students in biodiversity informatics and taxonomy, and engaging with training of K-12 teachers in rural villages of Alaska. Project information can be found at http://alaskaflora.org.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

阿拉斯加的植物是北极，北方和温带雨林物种的动态混合物，在亚洲和北美之间的千年迁移期间组装。它们也处于气候变化的前线，与美国其他地方的植物相比，情况的速度更快，导致范围的快速变化和局部灭绝。阿拉斯加的最后一个全面的植物群是在五十年前完成的，这意味着大量的数字数据和新的分类工作工作仍然很差。这是跟踪本地阿拉斯加植物和新到达的变化分布的主要障碍。 该项目将建立数字基础设施，以整合名称，植物标本标本，图像，公民科学观察以及分类学历史和描述。使用“分类单元概念”将数据资源编织在一起将是创新的。分类单元的概念提供了仅超出科学植物名称的信息精度，但尚未在这样的多资源数据库中使用。该项目的子目标是促进和促进分类概念的使用更广泛。随着数据基础架构的开发，该数据库将填充有关阿拉斯加工厂的现有数字和扫描纸纸信息，并通过在阿拉斯加新植物群中的利益相关者的合作生成新数据（键，分类帐户）。该项目还将吸引更广泛的植物爱好者社区，以通过纳入不自然主义观察来扩大当代物种的发生数据。项目人员将举办培训讲习班，并前往阿拉斯加村庄与老师合作，​​从而涉及阿拉斯加青年监测工厂分布的转变。 该项目将建立一个在线资源，该资源整合有关阿拉斯加血管植物的最重要信息。它将将阿拉斯加植物名称的新清单，阿拉斯加大学植物标本室（ALA）和阿拉斯加自然保护科学中心（ACCS）的工作人员多年的研究链接起来，与在线植物群资源（Pan-Arctic Flora和北美植物群）和北美植物群）以及从Alaska of Alaska of Alaska flora进行了信息，但现在是标准参考，但现在是标准参考。该数据库将将分类实体与世界各地的其他植物标本中的物理标本以及全州植物的地理参考观察结果联系起来，显示出数字化标本和田间（通过Inaturalist）的植物图像。该项目还将在其组成的植物群中对文本描述进行最先进的解构，解析每个分类单元的表型特征的数据，并以识别资源和对植物知识碱的贡献的形式介绍这些数据。该数据集成的核心将是基于分类概念的信息学基础架构，不仅捕获了植物的名称，还捕获了使用这些名称的历史意义：分类学家的假设。为了填充该分类单元概念数据层，我们将开发并参与一个用于分类概念映射的工作流程，以在阿拉斯加植物群核心群体中使用的名称中使用。项目人员将积极与阿拉斯加植物学家社区互动，以发展阿拉斯加的新植物群。利益相关者生成的数据（包括分类单元审查和事件数据）将纳入项目数据平台。除了显着促进我们对阿拉斯加植物的知识的贡献外，该项目还将通过培训生物多样性信息学和分类学的培训研究生和本科生来使大学和社会受益，并与阿拉斯加农村村庄的K-12教师进行培训。可以在http：//alaskaflora.org上找到项目信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。

项目成果

Integrating Taxonomic Names and Concepts from Paper and Digital Sources for a New Flora of Alaska

整合来自纸质和数字来源的分类名称和概念，形成阿拉斯加新植物区系

• DOI: 10.3897/biss.5.74184
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• 作者: Webb, Campbell;Ickert-Bond, Stefanie;Cook, Kimberly
• 通讯作者: Cook, Kimberly

The Claytonia arctica Complex in Alaska—Analyzing a Beringian Taxonomic Puzzle Using Taxonomic Concepts

阿拉斯加的 Claytonia arctica 复合体——使用分类学概念分析白令海峡的分类难题

• DOI: 10.3417/2019491
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.;Murray, David;Oliver, Margaret G.;Berrios, Hazel K.;Webb, Campbell O.
• 通讯作者: Webb, Campbell O.