Collaborative Research: Conference: Supporting inclusive and sustainable research infrastructure for systematics (SISRIS) by connecting scientists and their specimens.

该项目将在东南生物学家协会年度会议（2023年3月；北卡罗来纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆）和植物学2023年会议（2023年7月；爱达荷州博伊西）上创建一个以会议为基础的研讨会和研讨会，以培训科学家掌握新的计算技能和实践，为基于收集的研究建立包容性和可持续的基础设施。基于网络的软件的最新进展使分类学专家的数字化生物标本和鉴定获得更大的专业认可和引用成为可能。使用这些软件工具可以提高科学家的知名度，并使专业奖励制度现代化，以支持分类学专业知识的发展。然而，利用这种新软件创建一个自我维持的标本归属和引用循环，需要基于收集的研究人员有更大的意识，并需要在分类专家如何被认可方面进行文化变革。这一变化的核心是确保收集和识别生物研究标本的人员的姓名消除歧义，并与全球唯一标识符相关联。准确的人类数据是扩展标本网络愿景的重要组成部分，因为它们将跨机构的标本组联系起来，并揭示科学史上的事件。该项目将发展更具包容性的研究基础设施，因为所有人的分类学贡献将得到明确和可持续的承认，因为提高对分类学专业知识的认识将有助于在美国建立和维持这支科学队伍。研讨会将包括75名参与者，研讨会将有12名不同的演讲者，他们将达到190名基于收集的研究人员的预期听众。演讲者将提供案例研究，说明如何将人类数据整合到生物研究收藏的数字基础设施中。研讨会将包括四个小时的指导，内容是在Bionomia和全球生物多样性信息设施的生物多样性信息开放获取软件服务中使用全球唯一标识符，以及它们与开放研究员和贡献者ID、维基数据和Zenodo的互动。参与者将学习如何使用这些工具，作为记录他们自己的基于标本的研究活动的一部分，并作为社区层面改变对分类学专业知识的认可方式的一种手段。对于后一个目标，参与者将练习将美国植物标本馆标本归属于来自代表性不足群体的历史人物，这将提高这些科学家对生物研究收藏的智力贡献的可见度，并改善数字化美国生物研究收藏的管理。列入了确保广泛参与的广泛计划，包括向代表人数不足的群体提供外联方法，并以旅行津贴和受扶养人照顾援助的形式向参与者提供支助。研讨会和专题讨论会的成果将被严格评估，并与更广泛的系统学界共享，作为改进分类学专业知识如何得到认可的模式。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will create a conference-based workshop and symposium at the annual Association for Southeastern Biologists conference (March 2023; Winston-Salem, North Carolina) and the Botany 2023 conference (July 2023; Boise, Idaho) to train scientists in new computational skills and practices that build inclusive and sustainable infrastructure for collections-based research. Recent advances in web-based software now make it possible for taxonomic experts to receive greater professional recognition and citation of their digitized biological specimens and identifications. Use of these software tools can increase the visibility of scientists as well as modernize the professional rewards system to support the development of taxonomic expertise. However, creating a self-sustaining cycle of specimen attribution and citation that leverages this new software requires greater awareness by collections-based researchers and cultural change in how taxonomic expertise is credited. At the heart of this change is ensuring that the names of the people who collect and identify biological research specimens are disambiguated and associated with globally unique identifiers. Accurate people-data are an essential part of the vision for an extended specimen network because they link groups of specimens across institutions and uncover events in the history of science. The project will develop research infrastructure that is more inclusive, because taxonomic contributions by all people would be acknowledged explicitly, and sustainable, because improved recognition of taxonomic expertise would help build and sustain this scientific workforce in the US.Workshops will include 75 participants and the symposia will feature 12 diverse speakers, who will reach an anticipated audience of 190 collections-based researchers. Speakers will deliver case-studies that illustrate integrating people-data into the digital infrastructure of biological research collections. The workshop will comprise four hours of instruction about the use of globally unique identifiers for people within the biodiversity informatics open-access software services of Bionomia and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and their interaction with Open Researcher and Contributor ID, Wikidata, and Zenodo. Participants will learn how to use these tools as part of documenting their own collections-based research activities and as a means of community-level change in how taxonomic expertise is acknowledged. For the latter objective, participants will practice attributing US herbarium specimens to historical people from underrepresented groups, which will increase the visibility of these scientists’ intellectual contributions to biological research collections as well as improve the curation of digitized US biological research collections. Extensive plans are included to ensure broad participation, including outreach methods to underrepresented groups and support to participants in the form of travel stipend and dependent-care assistance. Workshop and symposium outcomes will be assessed rigorously and shared with the broader systematics community as a model for improving how taxonomic expertise is credited.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.