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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>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 style='color:#24292E;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>SpecimenType </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>is concerned with the kind of object (specimen)-similar to MIDS level 1 MaterialType, <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:#24292E;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>MaterialType </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>is concerned with what the object (specimen) is composed of-- similar to MIDS level 3. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='color:#24292E;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>SampledFeature </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>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",serif;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",serif;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",serif;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",serif;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-siz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