Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Development of a subject indexing system for collections of the north hemispherical flowering plant genus Campanula

文献主题标引在生物多样性研究中起着关键作用。在一个示例性的方式，主题索引系统将实现风铃草（钟形花）的集合，这是物种最丰富的开花植物属之一。主题标引系统将以网络分类学EDIT平台现有的软件组件为基础，结合联合收割机三大功能：数据库、编辑器和信息门户。整合不同的收集类型（例如植物标本、文本、图像、原始数据）具有特别重要的意义。 注释系统将有助于主题标引和元数据的方便生成和编辑。收集信息的联系将加快研究进程，促进结果的重复性，同时加强收集。计划中的试点项目将受益于与柏林-达勒姆植物园和植物博物馆（BGBM）以及达勒姆植物科学中心（DCPS）现有重点研究领域（欧洲和地中海地区的多样性;开花植物Asterales目的进化和生物多样性）的协同作用。在那里，正在编制或已经提供大量的研究数据和材料。拟议的收藏品主题索引系统将以一种方式提供，即它将对目前建立国家和国际生物多样性研究的信息基础设施作出重要贡献。

Subject indexing of collections plays a key role in biodiversity research. In an exemplary way a subject indexing system will be realised for collections of Campanula (bell flowers), which is one of the species-richest flowering plant genera. Based on existing software components of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, the subject indexing system will combine three functionalities: data repository, editor and information portal. The integration of heterogeneous collection types (e.g. herbarium specimens, texts, images, primary data) is of particular significance. An annotation system will facilitate the subject indexing and the convenient generating and editing of metadata. The linkage of collection information will accelerate the research process, facilitate the reproducibility of results and at the same time enhance collections. The planned pilot project will profit from synergies with existing focal areas of research (Diversity of Europe and the Mediterranean area; Evolution and biodiversity of the flowering plant order Asterales) at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM) as well as at the Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences (DCPS). There, research data and materials are being produced or are already available in considerable quantities. The proposed subject indexing system for collections will be made available in a way that it provides an important contribution to the current establishment of the information infrastructure of national and international biodiversity research.