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MNSN-CISC

1) Standardized workflows for research based on digitized specimens, 3D geometric morphometric analysis using semilandmarks, 3D printing and museum activities

Bastir M, García-Martínez D, Torres-Tamayo N, Palancar CA, Fernández-Pérez FJ, Riesco-López A, Osborne-Márquez P, Ávila M, and López-Gallo P. 2019. Workflows in a Virtual Morphology Lab: 3D scanning, measuring, and printing. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 97:1-28.

2) A paleoanthropological study using different digital museum databases for 3D quantitative reconstructions of torso shape in fossil hominins

Bastir, M., D. García-Martínez, N. Torres-Tamayo, C. A. Palancar, B. Beyer, A. Barash, C. Villa, J. A. Sanchis-Gimeno, A. Riesco-López, S. Nalla, I. Torres-Sánchez, F. García-Río, E. Been, A. Gómez-Olivencia, M. Haeusler, S. A. Williams and F. Spoor. 2020. Rib cage anatomy in Homo erectus suggests a recent evolutionary origin of modern human body shape. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4(9):1178–1187

3) A biomedical study of CT-based 3D geometric morphometric analysis of breathing biomechanics in patients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta.

Sanchis-Gimeno, J. A., S. Lois-Zlolniski, J. María González-Ruiz, C. A. Palancar, N. Torres-Tamayo, D. García-Martínez, L. Aparicio, M. Perez-Bermejo, E. Blanco-Perez, F. Mata-Escolano, S. Llidó, I. Torres-Sanchez, F. García-Río and M. Bastir. 2020. Association between ribs shape and pulmonary function in patients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Journal of Advanced Research 21:177-185.

 

Pipeline

The workflow in the MNCN laboratories will follow the policies and good practice guides adopted for the correct digitization and documentation of the processed samples:

1. A suitable digitization protocol will be adopted and followed to obtain high-quality digital objects.

2. An appropriate documentation protocol will be adopted and followed, adopting the standards proposed by TDWG that it has agreed to follow, Darwin Core for the management of collection samples and Audubon Core for the documentation and enrichment with metadata of the digital objects obtained and processed. Traceability between the digital objects and the original collection items will be maintained at all times.

3. The protocols necessary for the adequate dissemination of digital objects with their metadata and associated information will be adopted and followed, either in a restricted way due to being involved in ongoing investigation processes or for other security issues, licenses, etc. They may be disseminated via OpenAccess through the MNCN-CSIC data portal (pending development), other specialized and aggregation portals or through public repositories, such as Digital CSIC.

Graphical representation (workflow) of standardisation protocols
 

 

 

 

 

 

The different labs capable of digitization mentioned above all provide storage space at local NAS stations, at the MNCN-server. The CSIC is further offering storage space at the Altamira Supercomputer at the Institute of Physics, CSIC-University of Cantabria)
  • The user requests the study of the sample from a Collection. There may be several cases: (1) the collection passes the sample to the digitization laboratories, (2) the collection passes the sample to the user and the user takes it to the 3D laboratories, or without the participation of a Collection (3) the user brings a sample with him to take to the 3D labs.
  • The laboratory performs the digitization and associates the digital object (sample) with the necessary descriptive metadata.
  • The laboratory provides the digital copy to the user, either (1) on a physical medium (USB memory, DVD, etc.) or (2) through an authorized download access from a digital warehouse of the laboratory in the cloud.
  • A later option would be the possibility of uploading the digital object to a public repository (such as Digital CSIC) for open access, complying with the FAIR principles.

 

  • UGID, the recently created MNCN unit for Digitalization and Digital Collection Management is developing its own web portal where the 3D laboratory workflow will be integrated with user interaction throughout the entire process. This interaction starts with the request, and contains further the monitoring and participation during digitization, -by providing necessary descriptive metadata-, and ends with the download process of the digital object and the establishment of the necessary agreement in relation to the future open access to digital objects and establishment of the necessary embargo time.

 

Graphical representation of pipeline

 

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