<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:x-small"><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px">A new <b>Darwin Core (DwC) Hour + 2BBQs!</b> are almost here: </p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px"><b>Imagining a global gazetteer of georeferences</b></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_k9lwqlcb0" alt="Promotion_v2.jpg" width="287" height="205" style="margin-right:0px"></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px">This Darwin Core Hour will consist of a 1hs Webinar and two 2hs BBQ sessions.</p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px">Please see Webinar and BBQs Details and Meeting Links at 

<a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-2-bbqs-imagining-global-gazetteer-georeferences" target="_blank">https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-2-bbqs-imagining-global-gazetteer-georeferences</a></p><p style="text-align:left;box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-top:0px"><b>Abstract:</b></p><p style="text-align:left;margin:0px 10px 20px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We want our georeferencing to be just right: complete, as accurate as possible, and usable for research. However, it takes a great effort and resources to do so, right? Although the majority of the records shared online are not georeferenced, we have invested a huge, collective effort already; there ARE a lot of georeferenced locations already published. In GBIF, for example, there are >54M unique location strings that are georeferenced, affecting >530M occurrence records. We know that many collection/observation sites tend to be repeated across institutions and even taxa. Could we take advantage of all the effort already invested by the community? Could we use those georeferences to complete records that do not have them?</p><p style="text-align:left;margin:0px 10px 20px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The answer is: (probably) yes, and it would be awesome! In this Darwin Core Hour and BBQ we will present and discuss the idea of building a global gazetteer of georeferenced localities for everyone to use.</p><p style="text-align:left;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">When: </p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.2em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li style="text-align:left;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Darwin Core Hour Time (~1 Hour </strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)">13:00 to 14:00 UTC)</strong>: 9:00 AM EDT, 10:00 AM ART, 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 13:00 GMT <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200504T1300" type="Click to see what time this meeting is for cities worldwide" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(180,77,7)" target="_blank">Click for your local time</a>.</li><li style="text-align:left;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Darwin Core Hour BBQ 1</strong> (Monday 4 May 2020, 14:00 to 16:00 UTC)</li><li style="text-align:left;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Darwin Core Hour BBQ 2</strong> (Thursday 7 May 2020, <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200507T2000" type="Click to find time in your zone" styl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