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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The fourth meeting of TDWG TG MIDS will take place on Thursday 4th March 2021 UTC 14:30-16:00. The agenda and other details are below. Elspeth and I look forward to your contributions. If there are other items for the agenda, please inform
us.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Zoom details<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The meeting will take place by Zoom and will be started/hosted by co-convenor Alex Hardisty.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meeting URL: <a href="https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/81730361925?pwd=Z2J0T1U2VWxXSVM5TGUyblIyWFdJQT09">
https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/81730361925?pwd=Z2J0T1U2VWxXSVM5TGUyblIyWFdJQT09</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meeting ID: 817 3036 1925<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Password: 926998<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Agenda<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A googledoc for notes is here: <a href="http://bit.ly/tgmids-notes">
http://bit.ly/tgmids-notes</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>Introduction<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Reminder of the work:<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt">At the least meeting we dropped RecordCreator and CreatedOn terms. Retained Modified. Discussion on Name as an indicator of what a thing is. Today we need a decision on that. materialType needs a more atomized
vocabulary but also noted this is running into weaknesses in existing vocabularies like DwC.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Short report from CETAF Digitization working group, 1<sup>st</sup> March 2021<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt">Info elements related to geography – which are most important?<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>Decision needed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Name (<a href="https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/12">https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/12</a>) – pending decision carried over from previous meeting.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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</span>i.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Slight preference from those present to use the label ‘Name’. An alternative label, preferred by a few is ‘Title’.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Definition of the term is general, “A name given to the specimen”. Equivalent to dc:title: “A name given to the resource” (<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title">http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title</a></span>)
and to Schema.org ‘name’: “The name of the item”. (<a href="https://schema.org/name">https://schema.org/name</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>iii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Map it to dwc:scientificName (<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName</a></span>),
and abcd:fullScientificName (and adapted discipline-specific terms). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Discussion needed (as time permits)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">MaterialType (<a href="https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/14">https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/14</a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Mass (<a href="https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/4">https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/4</a>) – proposal for an additional/new information element necessary for certain geological
specimen categories<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">PhysicalSpecimenId (<a href="https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/10">https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/10</a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Institution (<a href="https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/11">https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/11</a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Geography related<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alex Hardisty
</span><span lang="CY" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alex Hardisty</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Director of Informatics Projects
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Computer Science and Informatics
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">skype: alex.hardisty
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