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

Thu Feb 15 22:49:54 UTC 2024

I'm going to pile on as well and thank everyone involved for their hard
work! It was a very enlightening experience for me and I really enjoyed
working with you all. And I'm looking forward to using the Humboldt
Extension with our data!

Zach

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 3:43 AM Anahita Kazem <Anahita.Kazem at idiv.de> wrote:

> 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>
> <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>
>>> <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
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> Department of Informatics
> Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
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