UK DiSSCo PREPARE: the UK Distributed System of Scientific Collections Preparatory Project

有了这个提案，我们标志着DiSSCo UK的范围界定阶段结束，并进入项目的准备阶段。在此之前，英国自然科学收藏界在伦敦自然历史博物馆的协调下，在UKRI艺术与人文研究理事会的支持下，进行了两年系统而复杂的工作，在此期间，我们建立了英国收藏的全面图景（https：//bit.ly/dissco-uk）;建立了一个机构和社区网络，共同愿景是将其收藏数字化;为这些藏品的数字化制定了蓝图;揭示了数字化带来的至少20亿英镑的经济效益（https：//doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e78844）;并探索了培训英国网络的模型，以发展数字化藏品的能力。利用我们最近的一笔资金，我们还为自然科学收藏建立了第一个国家数据门户网站（https：//data.dissco-uk.org/），汇集了约1100万条记录，并建立了一个完整的高质量的英国收藏登记册。英国DiSSCo EQUEE将开始制定国家基础设施提案，该提案将支持6500万至1亿件标本的数字化，解锁英国收藏品，并使利用这些数据的主要研究和活动计划成为可能。该项目将加强我们的门户基础设施，测试我们的综合发布工具包（IPT），以促进通过DiSSCo英国数据门户发布数据。它将支持DiSSCo英国合作伙伴，继续进行数字化试点，并努力了解当地的优先事项和需求，同时为“中心辐射”交付模式奠定基础。它还将提供有针对性的支持，通过研讨会和增强其他相关数据门户，增强地球科学和人文科学等专题用户群体的能力。

With this proposal, we mark the end of this scoping phase for DiSSCo UK and enter the project's preparatory phase. This follows two years of systematic and complex work by the UK Natural Science Collection Community, coordinated by the Natural History Museum London and supported by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council, during which we have built up a comprehensive picture of UK collections (https://bit.ly/dissco-uk); built a network of institutions and a community with a shared vision to digitise their collections; developed a blueprint for the digitisation of these collections; revealed a minimum of £2 billion in economic benefits unlocked by digitisation (https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e78844); and explored models to train the UK network to develop the capacity to digitise collections. With our most recent tranche of funding, we have also constructed the first national Data Portal for natural science collections (https://data.dissco-uk.org/), aggregating some 11 million records and building a full, high-quality register of UK collections. UK DiSSCo PREPARE will start to develop the the national infrastructure proposal that will support the digitisation of between 65 and 100 million specimens, unlocking UK collections and enabling major programmes of research and activity that make use of this data. Building towards that infrastructure, this project will enhance our portal infrastructure, testing our Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) to facilitate data publishing via the DiSSCo UK Data Portal. It will support DiSSCo UK partners, continuing digitisation pilots and work to understand local priorities and needs, while laying the groundwork for a 'hub and spoke' delivery model. And it will provide targetted support to empower thematic user communities such as the earth sciences and humanities, through workshops and augmentation of other relevant data portals.