Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center: NYBG: Difference between revisions

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*Zimkus - what is your view on "leading development of cyberinfrastructure" ? Are you leaning towards to centralize funding skills, or more to decentralize funding and skills to build a communal skill to maintain, and improve, cyberinfrastructure? Jorrit Poelen jhpoelen+idigbio@jhpoelen.nl I think this has to do with development of a backbone architecture for the Digital Extended Specimen that all of these indepenedent projects cahn contribute to rather than working at cross purposes or reinventing the wheel. Andy Bentley abentley@ku.edu
*Zimkus - what is your view on "leading development of cyberinfrastructure" ? Are you leaning towards to centralize funding skills, or more to decentralize funding and skills to build a communal skill to maintain, and improve, cyberinfrastructure? Jorrit Poelen jhpoelen+idigbio@jhpoelen.nl I think this has to do with development of a backbone architecture for the Digital Extended Specimen that all of these indepenedent projects cahn contribute to rather than working at cross purposes or reinventing the wheel. Andy Bentley abentley@ku.edu
Attribution is a huge deal for advocacy for collections and should be encouraged in as many ways as possible.  CC-BY is simply one way of trying to enforec that but there is a larger conversation to be had here. Andy Bentley abentley@ku.edu
 
*Attribution is a huge deal for advocacy for collections and should be encouraged in as many ways as possible.  CC-BY is simply one way of trying to enforec that but there is a larger conversation to be had here. Andy Bentley abentley@ku.edu
In my opinion use tracking is not actually that useful, especially in the long tail of science. Is a specimen not useful if it is currently not being used?
In my opinion use tracking is not actually that useful, especially in the long tail of science. Is a specimen not useful if it is currently not being used?