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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Steve, for sharing this!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Likewise, for several years we have been exploring a way to harmonize our natural sciences collections with our cultural, anthropological and archaeological collections, and have generally found unexpectedly high degrees of similarity in terms of data modelling and data management needs. I would add my voice to the chorus that we should move the biodiversity standards in a direction that makes them compatible with non-biodiversity collections/research data management needs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Aloha,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Rich<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Richard L. Pyle, PhD<br>Senior Curator of Ichthyology | Director of XCoRE<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817-2704<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Office: (808) 848-4115; Fax: (808) 847-8252<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">eMail: deepreef@bishopmuseum.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/staff/pylerichard.html"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:blue">BishopMuseum.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Our Mission: Bishop Museum inspires our community and visitors through the exploration and celebration of the extraordinary history, culture, and environment of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> tdwg-mids <tdwg-mids-bounces@lists.tdwg.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>smrtucson@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> tdwg-mids@lists.tdwg.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Dave Vieglais <dave.vieglais@gmail.com>; 'Ramona Walls' <rlwalls2008@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [TDWG-MIDS] vocabularies for characterizing samples<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hello MIDS—<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">I am with the iSamples project (<a href="https://isamplesorg.github.io/home/">https://isamplesorg.github.io/home/</a>), working on a core metadata schema for describing physical samples from the Earth Science, Bioscience and Archaeology/Anthropology domains. Our objectives overlap with the MIDS, and we would like to stay in close communication to harmonize our outputs. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">This is a work in progress, and we're interested in as much alignment as possible with TDWG work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">After studying various sample description schemes from our focus domains, the draft core metadata scheme has high level categories for specimenType, materialType, and sampledFeatureType with a controlled vocabulary of 10-20 classes for each type. (The design then accommodates domain specific categories extending these type for more granular searching.) These are related to the <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/14">materialTypes MIDS element under discussion</a>; you might have see my posting in that discussion. <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#24292E;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">SpecimenType is concerned with the kind of object (specimen)-similar to MIDS level 1 MaterialType, <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#24292E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">MaterialType is concerned with what the object (specimen) is composed of-- similar to MIDS level 3. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#24292E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">SampledFeature categories serve to identify broad context for the collection event. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">We are testing the three vocabularies with a card sorting exercise. There are descriptions of 65 samples mined from various sample databases; the exercise consists of assigning each sample ‘card’ to one of the categories in the vocabulary. We would very much like to get input from a broader community on the vocabularies . If you have 20 min or so, please try one (or more!) of the sorting exercises.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Specimen Type Sorting <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:#67737A;background:white"><a href="https://x12745x3.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/3x1kqnv2">https://x12745x3.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/3x1kqnv2</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Specimen Material Type Sorting <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:#67737A;background:white"><a href="https://x12745x3.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/ud4300c4-0">https://x12745x3.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/ud4300c4-0</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:black;background:white"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sampled Feature Type Sorting <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:#67737A;background:white"><a href="https://x12745x3.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/qf1254qw">https://x12745x3.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/qf1254qw</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">steve<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Stephen M. Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">US Geoscience Information Network (USGIN)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="mailto:smrTucson@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">smrTucson@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">520-869-8545<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>