Digitisation Facility - BAS Archives and other physical collections

英国南极调查(BAS)是世界领先的极地科学和行动中心，致力于解决具有全球重要性的问题并帮助社会适应不断变化的世界。这一地位是通过BAS及其前身--福克兰群岛属地调查(FI.D.S.)(1945-1962)和第二次世界大战探险队塔巴林行动(1943-1945)-在南极大陆建立了第一批永久性联合王国考察站--75多年的努力取得的。这段悠久的历史展示了英国在现代南极科学考察中的领先地位，以及在极端环境中生活和工作的挑战，它的大量实物收藏记录了这一历史，共同构成了一个独特而全面的账户，记录了这些组织活动的所有方面。它们包括具有科学价值的长期环境、地质、生物和气象数据集、元数据和标本、书面记录、地图、平面图、胶片和摄影材料。2018年，部分档案收藏、近1万份报告和1.9万张图片被列入联合国教科文组织世界记忆方案英国登记册，证明了它们的重要性。作为主要的资源材料，这些藏品在细节的丰富性和范围的广度方面是无与伦比的，因此支持原创的科学、艺术和人文研究、创新的跨学科项目和普通公众的使用。例子包括：南极性别包容性的发展；国际环境保护制度的地缘政治方面；南极建筑的演变；极地研究的心理压力。科学家使用这些收集来在时间上向后扩展数据集，并获取对它们的理解和在具有全球意义的研究中继续使用至关重要的信息。艺术家们用它们作为素材。他们为继续保护英国南极历史建筑提供信息，并支持改善科学与社会关系的交流活动。但这些藏品中有很大一部分仍然被锁住了。BAS目前没有能力大量高效地将这些藏品数字化。它也没有能力将其收藏中更大的记录和对象数字化。对设备进行升级，以建立一个指定和永久的数字设施，将使BAS能够支持其目标，即增加内部和外部研究人员获取其信息和数据资产的机会，并从中获得地方、国家和全球影响。它将使BAS实物收藏中数量更多、范围更广的材料得以数字化，并按照最佳做法和相关标准提供高质量的输出。与此同时，它将减少实物操作和处理，消除将材料送到异地进行数字化的需要，从而降低藏品面临的风险，并通过产生高质量的数字替代品，提高藏品中数据和信息的复原力。它将使研究人员能够远程解锁集合中的数据和信息，并支持以创新的方式重新使用和组合现有数据，这一战略在当前受限的情况下变得越来越重要。

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a world-leading centre for polar science and operations addressing issues of global importance and helping society adapt to a changing world. This position has been achieved through over 75 years of Antarctic endeavour undertaken by BAS and its predecessors, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (F.I.D.S.) (1945-62) and the Second World War expedition Operation Tabarin (1943-45), which established the first permanent UK stations on the continent. This long history, illustrating the UK's leading role in the modern era of Antarctic scientific exploration and the challenges of living and working in an extreme environment, is captured by its significant physical collections, together constituting a unique and comprehensive account documenting all aspects of the organisations' activities. They include scientifically valuable long-term environmental, geological, biological and meteorological datasets, metadata and specimens, written records, maps, plans, film and photographic material. A testament to their importance was the inscription of a proportion of the archives collection, nearly ten thousand reports and nineteen thousand images, onto the UK Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2018. As primary resource material, these collections are unparalleled in terms of their richness of detail and breadth of scope, and as such support original scientific, arts and humanities research, innovative cross-disciplinary projects and use by the general public. Examples include: the development of gender inclusivity in the Antarctic; geopolitical aspects of an international regime of environmental protection; the evolution of Antarctic architecture; and the psychological pressures of polar research. Scientists use the collections to extend data sets backwards in time, and source information vital to their understanding and continued use in globally significant research. Artists use them as source material. They inform the continued conservation of the UK's historic Antarctic buildings, and support communication activities to improve the relationship between science and society. But much of these collections remain locked away. BAS does not currently have the in-house capability to digitise these collections efficiently in large numbers. Nor does it have the capability to digitise the larger records and objects within its collections. An upgrade of equipment, to establish a designated and permanent digital facility, will enable BAS to support its aim to increased access to, and derive local, national and global impact from, its information and data assets for both internal and external researchers. It will enable a greater amount and range of material from across BAS' physical collections to be digitised, and a high quality of output in line with best practice and relevant standards. At the same time, it will decrease the risks to the collections by reducing physical manipulation and handling and removing the need to send material off-site for digitisation and, by generating high-quality digital surrogates, will increase the resilience of the data and information in the collections. It will enable researchers to unlock the data and information in the collections remotely, and support the re-use and combining of existing data in innovative ways, strategies of increasing importance in the current restricted situation.