Creating reciprocal linkages to BOLD #2482
Description
Email sent 2-2-2020
Live links to voucher specimens from BOLD
Mariel Lee Campbell campmlc@unm.edu
Sun 2/2/2020 4:41 PM
To: support@boldsystems.org support@boldsystems.org
Hello,
I am writing to see if it is possible for BOLD to include/allow direct hot links from a BOLD record to a museum specimen record. I represent over 200 natural history and cultural collections who are using the Arctos collection management system, an online platform that provides each specimen record with a linkable url. For example, see https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Para:21002
If specimens were deposited correctly by the collector/sequence submitter, the specimen record should have a live link out from our database to the BOLD record, and hopefully at BOLD the record will contain the three-part guid (institution code: collection code: catalog number) that points back to the specimen identifier in our system, as above. However, we would like to explore having this guid identifier converted to the live url linkage so that a viewer could click the museum ID and land immediately at the specimen record page of the museum voucher. We currently have the ability to create these kinds of reciprocal live linkages with GenBank. Would this be possible at BOLD? For example:
UAMIC1999-14 and http://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Ento:142554
On a similar line, there are also records at BOLD that reference museum specimens, but the submitter of the record did not use the museum catalog number, instead submitting a field number or other ID. However, we can track back to the museum catalog number/guid in our database.
For example, see:
BTVC131-05 and https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Mamm:155929
and NEON example (our members include NEON external repositories):
MUP008-14 and http://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Mamm:299226
Does BOLD allow external parties to append information to a record? In this case, the institution housing the specimen in perpetuity wishes to make proper attribution to the specimen voucher by linking to a museum catalog number.
The ability to link genetic sequence information back to a museum voucher specimen is essential not only for morphological verification and in the interests of replicability and scientific accuracy, but also allows linkage to additional research that has been conducted using that specimen. We are very interested in tracking down and linking all usage for specimens archived in our institutions for integration and attribution purposes and to add value to the specimen data across all repositories. Would it be possible for us to initiate a conversation with BOLD as to how to increase collaboration and data linkage between our repositories?
Thank you for considering our request. I look forward to hearing from you.
Mariel Campbell
Arctos Working Group Co-Chair
Collection Manager, Division of Genomic Resources
Museum of Southwestern Biology