ABI Sustaining: Geolocate for the Biodiversity Research Community

ABI 维持：生物多样性研究界的地理定位

• 批准号: 1759959
• 负责人: Nelson Rios
• 金额: $ 29万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 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 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759959&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ABI; Sustaining; Geolocate; Biodiversity; Research

Since 2002, the GEOLocate project has been engaged in developing, distributing and supporting innovative solutions for deducing geospatial coordinates from free-form textual descriptions of locations, typically from where biological specimens have been collected and/or observed. It has resulted in a suite of web-based tools and services which have become critical components of workflows to digitize and mobilize biodiversity collections information, ultimately giving researchers and the public access to the vast archive of specimens held in natural history collections. Annotating biodiversity collection records with geospatial information enables specimen occurrences to be visualized on digital maps and allows researchers to relate the occurrences to other kinds of data (e.g., environmental data). These data increase our capacity to study important scientific and societal issues, such as endangered species conservation, environmental restoration, and preparing for global climate change. GEOLocate has long served the georeferencing needs of the natural history collections and research communities and has been integrated into numerous third-party biodiversity data management and analysis systems.This project will permit the GEOLocate platform to continue providing technology and support for semi-automated geospatial referencing of natural history collections data while addressing long-term sustainability in maintaining operation beyond the length of this grant. Specifically, this project will enable continued operation and day-to-day maintenance of web clients, server software, spatial data, hosting infrastructure and end-user support services. The project will continue to educate end-users, provide guidance on large-scale georeferencing projects and promote the use of the latest standards and best practices for georeferencing. Finally, the team will work with the natural history collections community, third-party integration partners and other relevant stakeholders to evaluate and implement a model for fiscal sustainability enabling support for the platform into the future. The GEOLocate project web site is located at: http://www.geo-locate.orgThis 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.

自2002年以来，GEOLocate项目一直致力于开发、分发和支持创新的解决方案，从自由格式的地点文本描述（通常是从收集和/或观察生物标本的地点）推导地理空间坐标。它产生了一套基于网络的工具和服务，这些工具和服务已成为数字化和调动生物多样性馆藏信息的工作流程的关键组成部分，最终使研究人员和公众能够访问自然历史馆藏中保存的大量标本档案。用地理空间信息对生物多样性收集记录进行注释，可以在数字地图上可视化标本发生情况，并允许研究人员将标本发生情况与其他类型的数据（如环境数据）联系起来。这些数据增加了我们研究重要科学和社会问题的能力，例如濒危物种保护、环境恢复和为全球气候变化做准备。长期以来，GEOLocate一直服务于自然历史收藏和研究团体的地理参考需求，并已被集成到许多第三方生物多样性数据管理和分析系统中。该项目将允许GEOLocate平台继续为自然历史收集数据的半自动地理空间参考提供技术和支持，同时解决长期可持续性问题，以维持该授权期限后的运营。具体来说，该项目将使网络客户端、服务器软件、空间数据、托管基础设施和最终用户支持服务的持续运营和日常维护成为可能。该项目将继续教育最终用户，为大规模地理参考项目提供指导，并推广使用地理参考的最新标准和最佳做法。最后，该团队将与自然历史收藏界、第三方整合合作伙伴和其他相关利益相关者合作，评估和实施一个财政可持续性模型，为该平台的未来提供支持。GEOLocate项目的网站位于：http://www.geo-locate.orgThis该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Georeferencing for Research Use (GRU): An integrated geospatial training paradigm for biocollections researchers and data providers

研究用地理配准 (GRU)：为生物收集研究人员和数据提供者提供的集成地理空间培训范例

• DOI: 10.3897/rio.4.e32449
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Research Ideas and Outcomes
• 作者: Seltmann, Katja;Lafia, Sara;Paul, Deborah;James, Shelley;Bloom, David;Rios, Nelson;Ellis, Shari;Farrell, Una;Utrup, Jessica;Yost, Michael
• 通讯作者: Yost, Michael