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Richard Lane, Chair Natural History Museum, London
Scientific Collections International (SciColl)
An international coordinating mechanism
OECD GSF Vienna April 2010
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Photo National Ice Core Labratory, USGS
Photo J. Hicks, U.S. Geological Survey
Millenium seed bank Kew
Herbarium, NHM London
Marine Zoology, NHM London
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Scientific Collections – key points
• Selected & Structured samples of the world around us
• Vouchers / samples : • repeatable, verifiable
• can be re-examined with new tools (cf observations)
• Source of new knowledge and ideas
• Can be arrayed, distributed infrastructure
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SciColl: International Coordinating Mechanism
Two main benefits
• Ensure collections are efficient and integrated infrastructures
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SciColl: International Coordinating Mechanism
Two main benefits
• Ensure collections are efficient and integrated infrastructures
• Enable more science to be done, especially interdisciplinary research
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SciColl: International Coordinating MechanismTwo main benefits
• Ensure collections are efficient and integrated infrastructures
• Enable more science to be done, especially interdisciplinary research
This will lead to the sustainabilty and development of collections
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Scientific Collections InternationalSciColl - update
• Outreach to scientific disciplines and countries
• Developing Governance and sustainability
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Workshop: International Coordination of an interdisciplinary
global research Infrastructure
• 8-9 Feb 2010 at Royal Belgian Institute for the Natural Sciences, Brussels.
• 85 researchers and institutional reps from 36 countries
• Funded: European Science Foundation, US National Science Foundation,
Belgian Science policy Office
• Earth sciences, archaeology, biomedical sciences, biodiversity sciences, anthropology
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Workshop: International Coordination of an interdisciplinary
global research InfrastructureResearch using collections:
• Climate, environment and ecosystem change from palaeo proxy collections
• Changing human disease patterns
• Climate and human induced extinctions
• Use of natural history collections for climate change research
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Workshop: International Coordination of an interdisciplinary
global research InfrastructureManaging collections:
• Global Biological Resource Centre network – laboratory-based living organisms
• Korean National Research Resource centre
• European network of natural science collections (Synthesys)
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Workshop: International Coordination of an interdisciplinary
global research InfrastructureOutcomes:
• Strong support for SciColl concept
• SciColl aligns with other infrastructure initiatives (eg. Mapping European Research
Infrastructure Landscape) and data coordination (GEO, GBIF)
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Workshop: International Coordination of an interdisciplinary
global research InfrastructureOutcomes:
• Strong support for SciColl concept
• SciColl aligns with other infrastructure initiatives and data coordination
• Added value of SciColl is connecting different research fields and thereby increasing access– Use ontologies of target topics
– “Yellow pages” as finding tool
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Workshop: International Coordination of an interdisciplinary
global research InfrastructureOutcomes:
• Strong support for SciColl concept
• SciColl aligns with other infrastructure initiatives and data coordination
• Added value of SciColl is connecting different research fields and thereby increasing access
• Two or three pilot topics not just one – eg. environmental change and emerging disease
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Developing Governance and sustainability
• Revised terms of reference based on comments at last GSF meeting and Brussels workshop
• Financial contributions - revised
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Category
GERD (latest
available figs)
Countries (examples) Expected contribution
(€ p.a.)
1 > $50 billion USA, Japan, Germany, China
90 k€
2 $18-50 billion Canada, France, Italy, Korea, Russia, UK
40 k€
3 $7.5-18 billion
Australia, Austria, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
20 k€
4 < $7.5 billion Belgium, Finland, Singapore, South Africa, Portugal, Norway, Poland
10 k€
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Category Operational budget, including staff [US$]
Staff number on collections [additional indicator]
Institutions (examples)
Expected Contribution€ (p.a.)
Large -1 >$5 million >150 NHM, SI, MNHN, IODP
16k
Medium - 2 $1 million - $5 million
50-150 MfN Berlin, Naturalis, NICL
8k
Medium-small - 3
$200k - $1 million
10-50 INBIO, NMK, University of New Mexico
4k
Small - 4 <$200k <10 Linnean Society London,
2k
For consortia, the annual financial contribution will be determined in agreement with the Executive Board
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Developing Governance and sustainability
• Revised terms of reference based on comments at last GSF meeting and Brussels workshop
• Financial contributions – revised
• Secretariat and activities budget remains as before
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Workplan
Deliverables:
1. A community network of scientific collections
2. Improved quality of collections care
• Improving collections management
• Increased digital access to collections
3. Increased access and usability of collections
4. Catalysed new interdisciplinary research
• Two or three pilot topics
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Timeline and MilestonesPhase 1 - exploration Feb 2006-Oct 2008
Phase 2 – organisational planning and community consultation Oct 2008 – April 2010
Phase 3 - Membership development April – November 2010
• May 2010: invitation to submit letters of intent to join SciColl
• August/ Sept 2010: when sufficient commitment establish Interim Executive Board
• August/ Sept 2010: launch of request for proposals to host SciColl Secretariat
• November 2010: Selection of Secretariat Host
• [Sept/ Oct steering committee and workshop in Australia]
Phase 4 – Organisational launch
• Nov. 2010: Advertisement for post of SciColl Executive Director • Early 2011: official launch of SciColl (establishment of Secretariat)
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Questions?