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An open-source database model and collections management system for fish scale and otolith archives
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier B.V., 2020.
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Abstract
- Scales and otoliths (ear stones) from fish are routinely sampled for age estimation and fisheries management purposes. Growth records from scales and otoliths can be used to generate long-term time series data, and in combination with environmental data, can reveal species specific population responses to a changing climate. Additionally, scale and otolith microchemical data can be utilized to investigate fish habitat usage. A common problem associated with biological collections, is that while sample intake grows, long-term physical storage is rarely a priority, and much of the sampling took place before the advent of open-access digital infrastructure. Material is often collected to meet short-term objectives and resources are seldom committed to maintaining and archiving collections. As a consequence, precious samples are frequently stored in many different and unsuitable locations, and may become lost or separated from associated metadata. The Marine Institute's ecological research station in in Newport, Co. Mayo, Ireland, holds a multi-decadal (1928–2020) collection of scales and otoliths from various fish species, gathered from many geographic locations. Here we present an open-source database model and archiving system to consolidate and digitize this collection, and show how this case study infrastructure could be used for other biological sample collections. The system utilizes the FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable) open-data principles, and includes a physical repository, sample metadata catalogue, and image library.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Fish scale
Sample (material)
Archive
FAIR data principles
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Otolith
Collections management
Environmental data
Database
Marine and Freshwater Research Centre
medicine
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Database model
Ecology
business.industry
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Applied Mathematics
Ecological Modeling
Environmental resource management
Sampling (statistics)
Computer Science Applications
Metadata
Geography
medicine.anatomical_structure
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Modeling and Simulation
Fisheries management
business
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....669007b6f1a35affa0ea01ac40ee9d32