Arctos: Community-driven innovations for managing biodiversity and cultural collections

Museum collections house millions of objects and associated data records that document biological and cultural diversity. In recent decades, digitization efforts have greatly increased accessibility to these data, thereby revolutionizing interdisciplinary studies in evolutionary biology, biogeograph...

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Hlavní autoři: Cicero, Carla, Koo, Michelle S, Braker, Emily, Abbott, John, Bloom, David, Campbell, Mariel, Cook, Joseph A, Demboski, John R, Doll, Andrew C, Frederick, Lindsey M, Linn, Angela J, Mayfield-Meyer, Teresa J, Mcdonald, Dusty, Nachman, Michael W, Olson, Link E, Roberts, Dawn, Sikes, Derek S, Witt, Christopher C, Wommack, Elizabeth
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Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 19.12.2023
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Vydání:1.1
Témata:
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Bioinformatics
Developmental biology
Epidemiology
Informatics
Museums
Standardization
ISSN:2692-8205, 2692-8205
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Shrnutí:Museum collections house millions of objects and associated data records that document biological and cultural diversity. In recent decades, digitization efforts have greatly increased accessibility to these data, thereby revolutionizing interdisciplinary studies in evolutionary biology, biogeography, epidemiology, cultural change, and human-mediated environmental impacts. Curators and collection managers can make museum data as accessible as possible to scientists and learners by using a collection management system. However, selecting a system can be a challenging task. Here, we describe Arctos, a community solution for managing and accessing collections data for research and education. Specific goals are to: (1) Describe the core elements of Arctos for a broad audience with respect to the biodiversity informatics principles that enable high quality research; (2) Highlight the unique aspects of Arctos; (3) Illustrate Arctos as a model for supporting and enhancing the Digital Extended Specimen; and (4) Emphasize the role of the Arctos community for improving data discovery and enabling cross-disciplinary, integrative studies within a sustainable governance model. In addition to detailing Arctos as both a community of museum professionals and a collection database platform, we discuss how Arctos achieves its richly annotated data by creating a web of knowledge with deep connections between catalog records and derived or associated data. We also highlight the value of Arctos as an educational resource. Finally, we present a financial model of fiscal sponsorship by a non-profit organization, implemented in 2022, to ensure the long-term success and sustainability of Arctos. We attribute Arctos’ longevity of nearly three decades to its core development principles of standardization, flexibility, interdisciplinarity, and connectivity within a nimble development model for addressing novel needs and information types in response to changing technology, workflows, ethical considerations, and regulations.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.
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Competing Interest Statement: The authors have declared no competing interest.
ISSN:2692-8205
2692-8205
DOI:10.1101/2023.12.15.571899