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Strategies and Partnerships for Enabling Infrastructure SustainabilityAnne Maglia, PhDProgram Director, Division of Biological InfrastructureUS National Science FoundationTDWG 2013 | 28 October 2013

Strategies and Partnerships for Enabling Infrastructure SustainabilityAnne Magliaamaglia@nsf.gov@ammaglia

OutlineChallenges from funders perspectiveExample: Biological CollectionsStrategiesAward decisionsLeveragingPartnershipsOpportunities for TDWG community

NSFs Rolekeep the United States at the leading edge of discovery in all fields of fundamental science and engineeringsupport "high-risk, high pay-off" ideasTransformative Research

Resource Competition

sustainableinfrastructureinnovativediscovery

Challenge1) Infrastructure Innovation=>2) Infrastructure Innovation=

6Ex: Biological Collections

Courtesy: SIO

Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR)

Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)10 years, $10 million/yeariDigBio central hub, themed networksDigitize as many US non-federal collections as possible

How to best facilitate building, sustaining, and using collections data resources?

1. Review criteria/Award decisionsPrioritization, sustainability plansNetworking, social sustainabilityInnovative approachesMost of $$ to equipment, trainingConditions of award

2. Resource leveraging

ADBC/iDigBioCSBRABI*

v *Advances in Biological Informatics2. Resource leveraging

123. Strong Partners/Partnerships

NIBA Goals/Partnership opportunitiesEstablish governance structure for national leadershipBuild biodiversity collections cyberinfrastructureTrain the current and future generationsBuy-in and partnerships nationally, internationallyDevelop a sustainable knowledge basePromote specimen-based learning, pedagogy

NIBA Goals/Partnership opportunitiesEstablish governance structure for national leadershipBuild biodiversity collections cyberinfrastructureTrain the current and future generationsBuy-in and partnerships nationally, internationallyDevelop a sustainable knowledge basePromote specimen-based learning, pedagogy

Partnership opportunitiesBuild biodiversity collections cyberinfrastructureR&D environment for methods, tools, techniquesDigitization standards and protocolsMappings to other research communitiesAccreditation, promotion of tools, services, dataImplementation plan for long-term data archiving Robust web services for taxonomic names

Partnership opportunitiesBuy-in/partnerships nationally, internationallyDevelop collaborations around occurrence dataMarket available collections data resourcesInitiate international collaboration to deliver US collection data to a global resourceDocument the role of US national specimen data standards, design for international interoperability beyond Darwin Core

Questions?amaglia@nsf.gov @ammaglia