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

Thu Feb 15 09:43:01 UTC 2024

At the risk of bombing everyone with even more email... I can only 
reiterate what everyone below has already said.

Amazing team, loved working with you all, hope to continue doing so in 
the near future. And rest assured that work on training materials and 
mapping of first datasets from iDiv is already in progress.

Humboldt Extension is also mentioned all over - perhaps even /too/ 
liberally - in an EU Consortium grant proposal being submitted next 
week, that both iDiv and GBIF are involved in. We are really selling 
this thing. :)

Best,

Ani

On 15/02/2024 06:54, Yi Ming Gan wrote:
> This is amazing!! Thank you so much John and everyone!!
> Yani, you are a legend!! Thank you for leading this team fearlessly 
> and tirelessly!! It was such a pleasure working with you all!!
>
>
> Cheers
> Ming
>
>
>> On 15 Feb 2024, at 02:17, Rob Stevenson <rdstevenson10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi  All
>>
>> It is wonderful we are across the line.  Thanks to Yani for her 
>> leadership.
>>
>> John and Steve I think all of us appreciate your expertise and 
>> guidance with the process.
>>
>> I look forward to the day when these richer data sets start appearing 
>> at GBIF.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:42 PM Yanina Sica <yanina.sica at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         *******************
>>         Wesley Hochachka
>>         Senior Research Associate
>>         Cornell Lab of Ornithology
>>         ph. (607) 254-2484
>>         *******************
>>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         *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
>>
>>         Woo hoo!!! Thanks, John!
>>
>>         Steve
>>
>>
>>         -- 
>>
>>         Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D.  he/him/his
>>
>>         Data Science and Data Curation Specialist / Librarian III
>>
>>         Digital Lab, Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt
>>         University
>>
>>         Nashville, TN 37235, USA
>>
>>
>>         https://baskauf.github.io/
>>
>>
>>
>>         *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
>>
>>         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).
>>
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>
>>
>>         John
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert D Stevenson
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Biology
>> UMass Boston
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Dr Anahita JN Kazem

Data Steward & Biodiversity Informatics Scientist

Data & Code Unit (iBID / iBON)
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Halle-Jena-Leipzig  |www.idiv.de

Department of Informatics
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

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