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、寒带和温带雨林物种的动态混合体，在亚洲和北美之间的数千年迁徙中聚集在一起。它们也处于气候变化的前线，比美国其他地方的植物经历了更快的变化条件，导致快速的范围变化和局部防御。阿拉斯加上一次全面的植物群是在50年前完成的，这意味着大量的数字数据和新的分类工作仍然没有得到很好的整合;这是跟踪阿拉斯加本土植物和新来者分布变化的主要障碍。 该项目将建立数字基础设施，以整合名称，植物标本，图像，公民科学观察以及分类历史和描述。它将创新地使用“分类概念”来编织数据资源。分类单元概念提供的信息精确度超过了科学植物名称本身，但尚未用于像这样的多资源数据库;该项目的一个次级目标是促进和便利分类单元概念的更广泛使用。随着数据基础设施的发展，数据库将填充现有的数字和扫描纸上的阿拉斯加植物信息，并通过利益攸关方在阿拉斯加新的植物群中的合作产生新的数据（键，分类帐户）。该项目还将吸引更广泛的植物爱好者社区，通过纳入iNaturalist的观察来扩大当代物种的发生数据。项目工作人员将举办培训讲习班，并前往阿拉斯加村庄与教师合作，从而使阿拉斯加青年参与监测植物分布变化的重要进程。 该项目将建立一个在线资源，整合有关阿拉斯加维管植物的最重要的信息。它将把阿拉斯加植物名称的新清单（阿拉斯加大学植物标本馆（ALA）和阿拉斯加保护科学中心（ACCS）工作人员多年研究的成果）与在线植物群资源（泛北极植物群和北美植物群）以及Hulten的阿拉斯加植物群的数字化信息联系起来，这是标准的参考书，但现在已经有将近50年的历史了。该数据库将把分类实体与植物标本馆和世界各地其他植物标本馆中的物理标本数据联系起来，并与全州植物的地理参考观测联系起来，显示数字化标本和实地植物的图像（通过iNaturalist）。该项目还将致力于对其组成植物区系的文本描述进行最前沿的解构，解析每个分类群的表型特征数据，并以识别资源和对植物知识库的贡献的形式呈现这些数据。这种数据整合的核心将是基于分类概念的信息学基础设施，这些概念不仅包括植物的名称，还包括使用这些名称的历史意义：分类学家的假设。为了填充这个分类单元概念数据层，我们将开发并参与一个工作流程，用于阿拉斯加植物群出版物核心集中使用的名称之间的分类单元概念映射。项目工作人员将积极与阿拉斯加植物学家社区合作，开发阿拉斯加新的植物群。利益攸关方生成的数据（包括分类群审查和发生数据）将纳入项目数据平台。除了显著提高我们对阿拉斯加植物的认识之外，该项目还将通过培训研究生和本科生生物多样性信息学和分类学，并参与阿拉斯加农村K-12教师的培训，使大学和社会受益。项目信息可以在www.example.com上找到http://alaskaflora.org.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.