<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;
mso-ligatures:none;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Teresa,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kudos to you for getting this together! I am excited that we are so close to successfully wrapping this up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I made some comments on the three specimen definition changes. I think that my issue can be easily resolved with a slight wording change, so I’m not intending to torpedo the proposal to change those definitions.
I agree that improving the definitions is long overdue and I hope that we can include the improved definitions in this package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. he/him/his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Data Science and Data Curation Specialist / Librarian III<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nashville, TN 37235, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Executive Committee/Technical Architecture Group Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://baskauf.github.io/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">dwc-material-sample <dwc-material-sample-bounces@lists.tdwg.org> on behalf of Teresa Mayfield-Meyer <jegelewicz66@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 7:18 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>dwc-material-sample@lists.tdwg.org <dwc-material-sample@lists.tdwg.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[dwc-material-sample] MaterialSample Task Group Term addition/change package review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MaterialSample Task Group Member,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We had set a goal to put a review package together by May 1 and although we are behind, we are close! Please review the
<a href="https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/tree/main/review%20package">currently proposed package</a>. Each term has an associated issue linked at the top of the document. Add comments in the issues if you think anything needs further discussion/revision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Although I have proposed changes to FossilSpecimen, LivingSpecimen and PreservedSpecimen, I am prepared to drop those if they are going to hold up the proposal of this package for public review. We have meetings
scheduled for May 17 and my current goal is to finalize the package at those meetings, then submit the results to the main TDWG repo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are close to accomplishing something! I appreciate all of your time and effort on this Task Group and hope that we can wrap this up shortly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Adios,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br clear="all">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<b><a href="https://arctosdb.org/" target="_blank">Arctos</a> Community Coordinator</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044" target="_blank">ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044</a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It's not dead if it has data!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>