The National Bryophyte Information Service: Implementation of a Scalable, Community Testbed for Botanical Collections Data Management

该奖项将建立国家苔藓植物信息服务（NBIS），这是一个分布式的，基于互联网的信息服务和植物学研究社区的试验台设施。国家生物多样性信息系统的使命是：（1）为几个生物多样性项目迫切需要的生物多样性收集数据访问提供直接支持;（2）为生物多样性数据库和信息系统的互操作性和可扩展性的持续研究创造一个长期的、可持续的试验平台。 这一举措是多学科和机构间的合作。密苏里州植物园（www.mobot.org）、纽约植物园（www.nybg.org）和主教博物馆（www.bishop.hawaii.org）将合作开展研究，重点是混合网络和数据库技术，以改善生物多样性信息系统的访问、互操作性和可扩展性。 为了在多个系统中提供对苔藓研究数据的同时、集成访问，我们将设计并实现一个多数据库联邦。此外，我们将制定政策和机制，以支持社区管理的数据库，并将部署个性化的Web界面配置服务的研究人员。 该项目还将参与生物学收藏模式图书馆项目（www.bishop.hawaii.org/asc-cnc），并将部分利用劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室的对象协议模型数据库软件。 这些活动解决了一个确定的需要，以提高社会，访问和内容的生物数据库的可扩展性。 它还解决了生物信息学面临的最重要的“大挑战”问题之一，即信息资源互操作性问题。我们提出了直接有效的解决方案，可以产生短期利益苔藓社区，并在长期内，补充和扩展相关的理论和经验生物信息学研究。 该项目由国家科学基金会和美国地质调查局生物资源司联合支助，作为国家生物信息基础设施（www.nbs.gov/nbii）发展的一部分。

This award will establish the National Bryophyte Information Service (NBIS), a distributed, Internet-based information service and testbed facility for the botanical research community. The mission of the NBIS is: (1) to provide immediate support for bryophyte collections data access that is urgently needed by several biodiversity projects and (2) to create a long-term, sustainable testbed for continuing research on biodiversity database and information system interoperability and scalability. This initiative is a multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration. Missouri Botanical Garden (www.mobot.org), the New York Botanical Garden (www.nybg.org) and the Bishop Museum (www.bishop.hawaii.org) will partner on research focussed on hybridizing Web and database technologies to improve access, interoperability, and scalability of biodiversity information systems. In order to provide simultaneous, integrated access to bryology research data in multiple systems we will design and implement a multidatabase federation. In addition, we will develop policies and mechanisms to support community curation of the databases and will deploy an individualized Web interface configuration service for researchers. The project will also participate in the Biological Collections Schema Library Project (www.bishop.hawaii.org/asc-cnc) and will, in part, utilize the Object Protocol Model database software from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These activities address an identified need to improve the social, access, and content scalability of biological databases. It also addresses one of the most important "Grand Challenge" problems facing bioinformatics, the problem of information- resource interoperability. We propose straightforward and effective solutions that can yield short-term benefits to the bryology community and, in the long term, complement and extend related theoretical and empirical bioinformatics research. This project is being jointly supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Geological Survey Biological Resources Division as part of the development of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (www.nbs.gov/nbii).