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<p>Hello TDWG'ers,</p>
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Please join us for the next installment of Darwin Core Hour:
Thousands of Shades for “Controlled” Vocabularies, with presenter,
Paula Zermoglio.<br>
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DETAILS for webinar.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-thousands-shades-%E2%80%9Ccontrolled%E2%80%9D-vocabularies">https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-thousands-shades-%E2%80%9Ccontrolled%E2%80%9D-vocabularies</a><br>
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That's this Tuesday 4th April, 11AM EDT, 12 noon ART, 3PM UTC<br>
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ABSTRACT.<br>
In this third chapter in the Darwin Core Hour series we will visit
some of the most colorful Darwin Core terms for which the use of <strong>controlled
vocabularies</strong> is recommended. First, as a follow up to
Chapter 2, we will expose the current content of particular terms
as they are published right now via different aggregators. Second,
we will try to disentangle the reasons, purposes and chances that
lead us to observe this diversity of values in such fields. Then,
we will explore the current availability of controlled
vocabularies in different disciplines within our community and the
initiatives that are addressing the problem from different
perspectives. Finally, we will try to understand if there is
actually a pot at the end of the rainbow: can we come up with
solid, community-built controlled vocabularies?<br>
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EXTRAs.<br>
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<ol>
<li>Explore the Darwin Core Questions & Answers wiki!
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki</a> - where all Darwin Core Hour
materials can be found.</li>
<li>See which of your questions have been asked and answered so
far <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues</a></li>
<li>Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a
webinar on your darwin core topic: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz">https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz</a></li>
<li>Here's a list of terms for which DwC recommends use of a
controlled vocabulary - note many are in the Location class. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies</a><br>
</li>
<li>See what's inside some of the dwc fields that suggest using a
controlled vocabulary (data from GBIF, iDigBio, VertNet, and
soon ALA): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data</a></li>
<li>Future DwC Hour webinars coming up in May and June feature
discussions about how new dwc:terms and dwc:extensions come into
being and another dwc hour on the GBIF Intergrated Publishing
Toolkit (IPT) and Darwin Core.<br>
</li>
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Happy Darwin Core and Data Quality, :-)<br>
Deb, et al from the iDigBio Data Mgmt Interest Group and the Darwin
Core Hour Team<br>
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