使用Biotracks 采集植物标本

Using the Biotracks platform to collect plant specimens

关键词:  Biotracks, 标本馆, 植物标本, 标本数字化, 公众科学

Key words:  Biotracks, herbarium, specimens, specimen digitization, citizen science

摘要:

Biotracks 是一款自然观察类的公众科学应用,目前已经被各类科学调查和自然观察项目广泛使用。该文利用Biotracks 的标本采集项目将野外采集的数据与标本馆的数字馆藏系统连接起来,使用户在手机上记录的信息可以被应用到标本馆的标本数字化中。这种方式不仅提升了数字标本的转录效率,而且从根本上改变了整个标本收集流程中的数据整合方式,使得标本从采集到收藏的各个环节都能获得高质量的效率提升。同时,新的标本收集模式还能自然地将标本的野外照片与数字标本融为一体,从而使得传统标本原本很难呈现的颜色、行为、立体结构、环境等信息最终可以通过数字标本再次展现给研究者。这在信息维度上不仅拓展了传统标本的内涵,结合公众科学,未来还有望进一步延伸馆藏标本鉴定和讨论的时空范围。此外,公众科学在解决标本馆问题中所展现出来的潜质,为重新审视标本馆的领域价值提供了新的视角。

Abstract:

Biotracks is a citizen science application of nature observation, which has been widely used in the scientific field survey and nature observation in China. We use the collection object of Biotracks to link the data collected in the field to the digital collection system of the herbarium. Users in the wild can quickly record the information on mobile phone and then apply these data to specimen digitization. This new method improves the transcription efficiency and accuracy of all steps: from the collecting event to specimen curation. More importantly, this method can link field photos with specimen data naturally, which means those the color, behavior, three-dimensional structure, environment and other information that the traditional specimens are difficult to display, and now can be presented to the researchers. This not only expands the value of traditional specimens, but also hopes to extend the time and space of specimen identification and discussion in the future. In addition, the potential of citizen science in solving the problem of herbarium also provides a new perspective for us to re-examine the scientific value of herbarium.