Workshop: NEON Bioarchive, Bringing Together the Ecological and Collections Communities

国家生态观测站网络（NEON）的目标是提高科学家在大陆范围内检查和了解环境的能力。将在美国和波多黎各的34个水生地点和47个陆地地点收集标本和样本，以补充地面上的自动测量和观察。NEON收集的绝大多数样品和标本将保存在外部设施，这些设施将负责长期管理和研究的可及性。遵循收集的最佳实践可以最大限度地提高样品、标本和研究数据的长期价值，包括解决超出目前设想的问题。因此，社区努力利用最佳实践是至关重要的。在该奖项的支持下，为期两天的研讨会将于2016年11月中旬在科罗拉多州博尔德的NEON办公室举行，届时NEON的工作人员、生态社区的其他代表和生物多样性收集专家将齐聚一堂，讨论从现场收集到管理、数字化和研究使用的样本和数据的管理问题。这些指导方针将广泛适用于计划向拥有生物多样性收藏的机构提供标本和数字化数据的其他生态学家。研讨会将汇集生态学和生物多样性收藏界，使生物多样性收藏界的工作人员更好地了解生物多样性研究的目标和科学价值，使生物多样性研究中心更好地了解生物多样性研究的目标和科学价值。NEON的工作人员和其他由NEON选择的人员将介绍现场收集协议和方法，将样品和数据转移到生物档案机构的策略和方法，以及样品和数据的预期使用。收集专家的报告将包括接收样本、储存、建立数据库（至少包括分类、地点、日期、收集者、生境和生态学家提供的其他数据）的规程；分配唯一标识符)、向iDigBio或其他数据聚合器调动数据、从生物档案机构提供样本和数据（包括跨机构引用）、归因以及估计机构收集的管理样本和数据的成本。在研讨会上，将制定管理样品、标本和数据的指南和建议做法，并在NEON中共享。

The goal of National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is to advance the ability of scientists to examine and understand the environment at a continental scale. Specimens and samples that complement automated measurements and observations on the ground will be collected at 34 aquatic and 47 terrestrial sites across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The vast majority of samples and specimens collected by NEON will be held at external facilities that will be responsible for their long-term curation and accessibility for research. Following best practices for collections maximizes the long-term value of the samples, specimens, and data for research, including for addressing questions beyond those presently envisioned. So, it is critical that community efforts leverage best-practices. With support from this award, A two-day workshop will be held in mid-November 2016, at the NEON offices in Boulder, Colorado, to bring together staff of NEON, other representatives of the ecological community, and biodiversity collections experts to address management of samples and data from the time they are collected in the field to curation, digitization, and research use. These guidelines will be broadly applicable to other ecologists planning on providing specimens and digitized data to institutions holding biodiversity collections. The workshop will bring together the ecology and biodiversity collections communities to engender a better understanding by biodiversity collections staff of the goals and scientific value of NEON and a better understanding by NEON of the goals and scientific value of biodiversity collections. Presentations by NEON staff and others selected by NEON will explain the field-collection protocols and methods, strategies and methods for transferring samples and data to Bioarchive institutions, and anticipated use of samples and data. Presentations by collections experts will cover protocols for receiving samples, storing, databasing (to include, as a minimum, taxonomy, locality, date, collectors, habitat and other data provided by ecologists; assignment of unique identifiers), mobilization of data to iDigBio or other data aggregators, making samples and data available from the Bioarchive institutions (including referencing across institutions), attribution, and estimates of the costs of managing samples and data by institutional collections. From the workshop, guidelines and recommended practices for managing samples, specimens, and data in preparation for submission to repositories will be developed and shared across NEON.