Digitisation Facility - BAS Archives and other physical collections

英国南极调查局（BAS）是世界领先的极地科学和行动中心，致力于解决全球重要问题，帮助社会适应不断变化的世界。这一地位是通过南极调查局及其前身福克兰群岛属地调查局（F.I.D.S.） 75年的南极努力取得的。（1945-62）和第二次世界大战远征塔伯林行动（1943-45），后者在欧洲大陆建立了第一个永久的英国站。这段漫长的历史，说明了英国在现代南极科学探索中的主导作用，以及在极端环境中生活和工作的挑战，由其重要的实物收藏所捕捉，共同构成了一个独特而全面的账户，记录了该组织活动的各个方面。它们包括具有科学价值的长期环境、地质、生物和气象数据集、元数据和标本、书面记录、地图、计划、电影和摄影材料。2018年，一部分档案藏品（近1万份报告和1.9万幅图像）被列入联合国教科文组织世界记忆项目英国登记册，这证明了它们的重要性。作为主要的资源材料，这些收藏在细节的丰富性和范围的广泛性方面是无与伦比的，因此支持原始的科学，艺术和人文研究，创新的跨学科项目和公众的使用。例子包括：在南极发展性别包容性；国际环境保护制度的地缘政治方面；南极建筑的演变；以及极地研究的心理压力。科学家们使用这些收集来扩展数据集的时间，并获得对他们的理解和在全球重大研究中继续使用至关重要的信息。艺术家将它们作为原始材料。他们为英国历史悠久的南极建筑的持续保护提供信息，并支持交流活动，以改善科学与社会之间的关系。但这些藏品中的大部分仍被封存起来。BAS目前没有内部能力有效地将这些藏品大量数字化。它也没有能力将其藏品中的大型记录和对象数字化。设备升级，建立一个指定的和永久的数字设施，将使BAS能够支持其目标，即增加对内部和外部研究人员的信息和数据资产的访问，并从其信息和数据资产中获得地方、国家和全球影响。它将使BAS实体馆藏的更多数量和范围的材料能够数字化，并使输出的高质量符合最佳实践和相关标准。同时，它将通过减少物理操作和处理以及消除将材料发送到场外进行数字化的需要来降低馆藏的风险，并且通过生成高质量的数字替代品，将增加馆藏数据和信息的弹性。它将使研究人员能够远程解锁收集的数据和信息，并以创新的方式支持现有数据的再利用和组合，这在当前有限的情况下越来越重要。

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a world-leading centre for polar science and operations addressing issues of global importance and helping society adapt to a changing world. This position has been achieved through over 75 years of Antarctic endeavour undertaken by BAS and its predecessors, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (F.I.D.S.) (1945-62) and the Second World War expedition Operation Tabarin (1943-45), which established the first permanent UK stations on the continent. This long history, illustrating the UK's leading role in the modern era of Antarctic scientific exploration and the challenges of living and working in an extreme environment, is captured by its significant physical collections, together constituting a unique and comprehensive account documenting all aspects of the organisations' activities. They include scientifically valuable long-term environmental, geological, biological and meteorological datasets, metadata and specimens, written records, maps, plans, film and photographic material. A testament to their importance was the inscription of a proportion of the archives collection, nearly ten thousand reports and nineteen thousand images, onto the UK Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2018. As primary resource material, these collections are unparalleled in terms of their richness of detail and breadth of scope, and as such support original scientific, arts and humanities research, innovative cross-disciplinary projects and use by the general public. Examples include: the development of gender inclusivity in the Antarctic; geopolitical aspects of an international regime of environmental protection; the evolution of Antarctic architecture; and the psychological pressures of polar research. Scientists use the collections to extend data sets backwards in time, and source information vital to their understanding and continued use in globally significant research. Artists use them as source material. They inform the continued conservation of the UK's historic Antarctic buildings, and support communication activities to improve the relationship between science and society. But much of these collections remain locked away. BAS does not currently have the in-house capability to digitise these collections efficiently in large numbers. Nor does it have the capability to digitise the larger records and objects within its collections. An upgrade of equipment, to establish a designated and permanent digital facility, will enable BAS to support its aim to increased access to, and derive local, national and global impact from, its information and data assets for both internal and external researchers. It will enable a greater amount and range of material from across BAS' physical collections to be digitised, and a high quality of output in line with best practice and relevant standards. At the same time, it will decrease the risks to the collections by reducing physical manipulation and handling and removing the need to send material off-site for digitisation and, by generating high-quality digital surrogates, will increase the resilience of the data and information in the collections. It will enable researchers to unlock the data and information in the collections remotely, and support the re-use and combining of existing data in innovative ways, strategies of increasing importance in the current restricted situation.