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

该项目将在东南部生物学家年会（2023年3月;北卡罗来纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆）和2023年植物学会议（2023年7月;爱达荷州博伊西）上创建一个基于会议的研讨会和研讨会，以培训科学家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。网络软件的最新进展使分类专家能够获得更多的专业认可，并引用其数字化生物标本和鉴定。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，创建一个利用这种新软件的标本归属和引用的自我维持循环需要基于收藏的研究人员提高认识，并在如何归功于分类学专业知识方面进行文化变革。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。准确的人员数据是扩展标本网络愿景的重要组成部分，因为它们将机构间的标本组联系起来，并揭示科学史上的事件。该项目将开发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承认，并且可持续，因为提高对分类学专业知识的认可将有助于建立和维持美国的科学劳动力。研讨会将包括75名参与者，专题讨论会将有12名不同的演讲者，他们将达到190名收藏研究人员的预期受众。演讲者将提供案例研究，说明如何将人的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，内容涉及在Bionomia和全球生物多样性信息设施的生物多样性信息学开放获取软件服务中使用全球唯一标识符，以及他们与开放研究员和贡献者ID，Wikidata和Zenodo的互动。参与者将学习如何使用这些工具作为记录自己基于收藏的研究活动的一部分，以及作为社区层面改变分类学专业知识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因于代表性不足的群体的历史人物，这将增加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策展。为确保广泛参与，还制定了广泛的计划，包括向代表人数不足的群体提供外联方法，并以旅行津贴和家属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社区分享，作为改进分类学专业知识的典范。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.