Fwd: Thanks for being part of the Arctos consortium!

[Dawn Roberts]

Please see the email below from Derek Sikes, the new Arctos Advisory Committee Chair.

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From: Derek Sikes <dss...@alaska.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Subject: Thanks for being part of the Arctos consortium!
To: Dawn Roberts <drob...@naturemuseum.org>
Cc: Michelle Koo <mk...@berkeley.edu>, Abbott, John <jabb...@ua.edu>

Hello! 

I'm Derek Sikes, the new Arctos Advisory Committee Chair. I'm the Insect Collection Curator and Professor of Entomology at the University of Alaska Museum / Univ. AK Fairbanks. I've been using Arctos since 2013. John Abbott is the new Chair-Elect and the Chief Curator & Director, Department of Museum Research & Collections Univ. Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

I'm writing on behalf of the Arctos Advisory Committee to remind all users of Arctos of a simple way you can help. 

Just add a budget line item for Arctos on any grant proposals you are, or will be, preparing.

Such funding, even in small amounts, helps everyone working behind the scenes on Arctos. The internet is becoming an increasingly difficult place to work as AI bots scour data at unsustainable rates. These new challenges require new solutions, some of which are currently out of our fiscal reach.  

NSF's data management plan is the perfect place to include a description and justification for these costs but they can be justified in any grant proposal that will generate or modify records in Arctos. Arctos can provide letters of support and if projects require something extra, we can discuss providing technical support, just contact officers or the director directly to discuss.

Thanks for being part of the Arctos consortium!

Derek

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[Bryan McLean]

Derek et al,

 

Thanks for the reminder, I agree this is a helpful way to support new tools alongside Arctos.

 

What type of budget/rates does the group recommend? That would help justify in a proposal.

 

Bryan

 

Bryan McLean

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

University of North Carolina Greensboro

www.mclean-lab.org

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[Michelle S. Koo]

Hi Bryan, good question! It depends on the grant and needs. For most grants with basic collection-growth, Arctos is a central part of the Data Management Plan, so asking for $1000-5000 is reasonable depending on the amount, whether new CT terms are needed, help with bulkloading any components, etc, beyond perhaps helping pay for membership fees. New tools or development of portals could also be in the grant and we can discuss additional services-- this could be for a contracted services, which we can sketch out and provide a budget during the grant writing.  When I have discussed this with NSF PO's in the past, they were encouraging of including such costs in the budget (part of the justification for requiring the DMP). So I imagine this could apply in other non-NSF grants too. So happy to discuss with grant writers what works best for them

Thanks, MK

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