[tdwg-humboldt] Seeking ratification of the Humboldt Extension for ecological inventories

[Yanina Sica]

Wow!!! This is amazing!!
Thanks for pushing this forward John!!
And thanks for the nice words, this was indeed an amazing group effort!

Yani


On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 21:06, Wesley M. Hochachka <wmh6 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Thank you John!
>
>    Wow...and you even were able to start off the ratification process on a
> travel day!  I'm looking forward to being able to think entirely about
> implementation, getter a richer representation of eBird's data into GBIF.
>
> Wesley
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> *******************
> Wesley Hochachka
> Senior Research Associate
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
> ph. (607) 254-2484
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> *From:* Baskauf, Steven James <steve.baskauf at Vanderbilt.Edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2024 14:39
> *To:* John Wieczorek <gtuco.btuco at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Humboldt Core TG <tdwg-humboldt at lists.tdwg.org>; Wesley M.
> Hochachka <wmh6 at cornell.edu>; Yanina Sica <yanina.sica at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: Seeking ratification of the Humboldt Extension for
> ecological inventories
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>
> Woo hoo!!! Thanks, John!
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> Steve
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> Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D.  he/him/his
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> Data Science and Data Curation Specialist / Librarian III
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> Digital Lab, Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University
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> Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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> https://baskauf.github.io/
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> *From: *John Wieczorek <gtuco.btuco at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 1:08 PM
> *To: *TDWG Exec <xcom at tdwg.org>
> *Cc: *Humboldt Core TG <tdwg-humboldt at lists.tdwg.org>, Wesley M.
> Hochachka <wmh6 at cornell.edu>, Yanina Sica <yanina.sica at gmail.com>,
> Baskauf, Steven James <steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu>
> *Subject: *Seeking ratification of the Humboldt Extension for ecological
> inventories
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> Dear Executive Committee,
>
> As convenor and on behalf of the Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group it
> is my pleasure to announce that the Humboldt Extension Task Group has
> completed and presents the results of the tasks in its charter (
> https://www.tdwg.org/community/osr/humboldt-extension/). The tasks
> included a public review, which went through two rounds of changes and
> resulted in useful updates to the originally proposed vocabulary
> enhancement to Darwin Core. The result is a clear set of terms, their
> definitions, usage comments, and examples and a formal
> controlled vocabulary for the new term eco:taxonCompletenessReported. The
> entire history of the review process (
> https://github.com/tdwg/hc/issues?q=is%3Aissue) and the resulting changes
> can be found in the TDWG Humboldt Extension GitHub repository (
> https://github.com/tdwg/hc).
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> In addition to the review, the GitHub repository and associated documents
> contain the necessary documentation to comply with the Vocabulary
> Maintenance Standard (https://www.tdwg.org/standards/vms/). The Landing
> page for the Extension (https://eco.tdwg.org/) provides links to all
> relevent documentation, including the normative "Humboldt Extension
> Vocabulary List of Terms" document (https://eco.tdwg.org/list/), a "Usage
> Guide" (non-normative,
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rX4m94rtZDR_8iIe3RvRnNYKDJcmSX3ii4S5hCznEA0/edit#heading=h.rr2lqlf80rn0,
> which will be even further developed in collaboration with GBIF), the
> "Implementation Experience Report" (
> https://eco.tdwg.org/humboldt_extension_implementation_experience_report.pdf),the
> "isLeastSpecificTargetCategoryQuantityInclusive Guidelines" (
> https://eco.tdwg.org/inclusive/),documentation entitled "Properties of
> hierarchical events in the Humboldt Extension for Ecological Inventories" (
> https://eco.tdwg.org/hierarchy/), and the "Quick Reference Guide" (
> https://eco.tdwg.org/terms/) following the pattern of human-friendly
> documentation for the Darwin Core standard.
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> Following the Vocabulary Maintenance Standard, by endorsing this proposal
> and forwarding it to you, we have entered into the Executive Committee
> Decision Phase. Once ratification is complete, the highlighted Note at the
> beginning of the landing page will be removed to reflect the new ratified
> status of the Vocabulary Enhancement.
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>
> I want to add a personal note of appreciation for the monumental effort
> embodied in this submission. The Task Group was extremely effective, and
> was under the constant capable leadership of Yanina Sica. It was a
> fantastic job by all involved. I look forward to seeing the immense impact
> it promises to have on sharing ecological biodiversity data.
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> Cheers,
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> John
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