Biocultural Collections: Establishing Curation Standards; 9-13 July; St. Louis Missouri

生物文化收藏品包括人们使用的植物和动物，由它们制成的产品以及有关它们的信息和档案。它们数量众多，种类繁多，包括生物标本、有价值的天然产品（例如，药物、食品、纤维、树脂）和文化制品（例如，衣服、篮子、武器、工具）。 现有的生物文化收藏品管理不善，缺乏保存、数据库和展览的既定标准。 因此，它们在很大程度上无法用于研究、参考和使用。生物文化收藏品研讨会将纠正长期忽视这些宝贵资源的现象，并通过召集专家制定和发布满足最多人需求的生物文化收藏品管理标准来促进其使用。讲习班的更广泛影响将是向公众、教师、学生、代表性不足的群体、保护主义者和发展专业人员提供受欢迎的生物文化收藏品。 具有不同经济、生存、文化和历史用途的植物和动物是BC的基础，因此这些收藏品对用户社区的价值远远大于基础科学。这些收藏品被用于多种形式的应用研究、保护、自然资源管理、开发和教育。生物文化收藏品的标准化和更好的获取将大大增加我们对有用植物和动物知识的深度和广度，并使这些收藏品对广大受众更有意义。

Biocultural Collections include plants and animals used by people, products made from them, and information and archives about them. They are numerous and diverse, including biological specimens, valuable natural products (e.g., medicine, food, fibers, resins) and cultural artifacts (e.g., clothing, baskets, weaponry, tools) from around the world. Existing Biocultural Collections are poorly curated and lack established standards for preservation, data-basing, and exhibition. As a result they are largely inaccessible for research, reference and use. The Biocultural Collections Workshop will remedy longstanding neglect of these valuable resources and facilitate their use by gathering experts to develop and publish Biocultural Collection Curation Standards that meets the needs of the greatest number of people. The broader impact of the Workshop will be to make popular Biocultural Collections available to the public, teachers, students, underrepresented groups, conservationists and development professionals. Plants and animals with diverse economic, subsistence, cultural and historical uses are the foundation of BC, and thus the collections have value for a community of users far greater than those in the basic sciences. These collections are employed in many forms of applied research, conservation, natural resource management, development, and education. Standardization of and improved access to Biocultural Collections will greatly augment the depth and breadth of our knowledge of useful plants and animals and will make these collections more meaningful to a broad audience.