國立臺灣博物館於2002年起透過爭取或編列政府經費,啟動一系列典藏數位化計畫,截至2023年仍持續進行相關工作,顯示政策上對數位典藏有所重視。惟計畫產製的數位化成果是否已邁向公共化,是否可與當代資料管理、開放與整合架構等相容,仍少有較深入的研究。為有利議題聚焦,本研究優先鎖定臺博館各類數位化成果中,與智慧財產權、學術優先權、是否屬公務機密、是否屬職務產出、是否屬特定族群文化資料等潛在爭議相對無關的「生物典藏標本詮釋資料」,分析其截至2022年3月31日為止於全球資訊網上的可近用性,結果發現僅勉強符合Sir Tim Berners-Lee所定義之一星開放標準,開放程度並不高。隨後本研究比較國、內外自然史博物館及生物多樣性業務機構的資料開放現狀,嘗試就客觀角度釐清臺博館在典藏資料開放議題上的困境與盲點,進而提出可行的精進方案後加以實作,最終順利完成對臺博館總計逾六萬件生物典藏的資料重整,並發布至由全球生物多樣性資訊機構維護之整合網絡。
The National Taiwan Museum (NTM) launched a series of digitization projects starting in 2002, and has continued these efforts up to 2023, showcasing a policy emphasis on digital archiving. However, in-depth studies regarding the public accessibility of the digitized outcomes, their compatibility with contemporary data management, openness, and integration frameworks, remain scarce. This study primarily focuses on "metadata of accessioned biological collections" within the museum's digitized assets, which are less prone to potential disputes related to intellectual property rights, academic precedence, confidentiality, employment-generated content, or specific cultural data of ethnic groups. Analyzing their accessibility on the World Wide Web until March 31, 2022, it was found that these data minimally meet Sir Tim Berners-Lee's one-star open standard, indicating a low level of openness. Subsequently, this research compares the current status of data openness in domestic and international natural history museums and biodiversity-related institutions, aiming to objectively elucidate the challenges and blind spots faced by the National Taiwan Museum concerning data openness in its collection. It then proposes viable enhancement strategies and implements them, successfully completing the restructuring of data from over sixty thousand biological collections held by the museum. These refined datasets are ultimately published onto an integrated network maintained by Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).