[tdwg-tag] FW: FW: TDWG in 2009 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Charles Hussey c.hussey at nhm.ac.uk
Wed Feb 18 11:06:33 CET 2009


As Roger's current boss, he has my blessing to attend the hackathon ;-)
 
All the best,
 
Charles Hussey,

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From: tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org
[mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Blum, Stan
Sent: 18 February 2009 08:04
To: ghw at anbg.gov.au
Cc: Kevin Richards; Technical Architecture Group mailing list
Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]


I wasn't aware that Roger is planning to go.  I am really happy to have
Hilmar participating in TDWG, but I'm also glad to see that Roger will
be there with his longer experience of TDWG and as someone who is fully
immersed in biodiversity and systematics.
 
I wish I could go myself, but I don't think it's possible.
 
-Stan

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From: Greg Whitbread [mailto:ghw at anbg.gov.au]
Sent: Tue 2009-02-17 11:08 PM
To: Blum, Stan
Cc: Lee Belbin; Kevin Richards; Technical Architecture Group mailing
list
Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]



You can't go yourself Stan?  You're a lot closer to the action.

I notice that Roger is listed as participant and Hilmar Lapp as member
of the organizing committee so we do have a couple of candidates
already.

greg

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:28, Blum, Stan wrote:
> Kevin et al,
> 
> Here is another event that TDWG should be aware of -- the NESCent
> sponsored hackathon on phylogenetic (database) interoperability.
> 
https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hack
athon
> 
> It would be nice if TDWG had someone there at least to observe, in
> particular if this event could serve as a model for our own
> hackathons.
> 
> -Stan
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org on behalf of Lee Belbin
> Sent: Tue 2009-02-17 10:23 PM
> To: 'Kevin Richards'; 'Technical Architecture Group mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009
>
>
>
> Hi Kevin
>
> 
>
> Sorry for the delay in responding. Been distracted with submitted
> standards (a nice distraction).
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> The TAG should act as the 'glue' between the other TDWG groups. Is the
> key issue therefore the vocabularies/ ontology?
>
> 
>
> I like the idea of a bunch of weasels. It would seem a good idea for
> the TAG to disseminate a statement of intent as soon as your strategy
> crystallizes. This would (hopefully) encourage the groups to aim in a
> productive direction.
>
> 
>
> I'm still working on recruiting members of the Programme Committee.
> They should have a significant input to the meeting. They will be the
> ones making a call to Conveners for group activities including
> involvement across the themes.
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>
> Lee
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> Lee Belbin
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> TDWG Secretariat
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> From: tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org
> [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Richards
> Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 7:41 PM
> To: Technical Architecture Group mailing list
> Subject: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009
>
>
> 
>
> Hello fellow TAGers,
>
>
> 
>
>
> I like the sound of Donald's mention of a "hackathon".  If anyone else
> is keen for such a thing at TDWG 2009, then let me know.
>
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> Some ideas that we could work on:
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> - Tapir tools, services, enhancements
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> - LSID tools, services, enhancements
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>
> - LSID vocabulary work - elaboration of the vocabs, tools for working
> with the vocabs, ?
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> - mash ups
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> - semantic web integration with tdwg standards/tools
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> Also had a few thoughts about how TAG ought to influence the the other
> sub groups and their discussions.
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> A snippet from an email to Doanld...
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> "I do like the idea of concentrating more on the developing standards
> etc. 
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> I feel we will have to be careful though not to end up with different
> groups heading different directions, or re-inventing wheels, because
> they are in separate discussions/sub groups.  One of the main concerns
> here is subgroups creating models for data types that have been done
> elsewhere - ie the "reuse" of existing schemas issue.  I do have a
> cunning plan though that may help (so cunning you could put a tail on
> it and call it a weasel :)).  As this "reuse" issue is really a major
> concern of the TAG group, we could have members of the TAG group
> spreading themselves through the different discussion, making sure
> they are heading the same direction as other groups and reusing
> models, etc, where appropriate.  It may help to have a short TAG "plan
> of attack" meeting before the main meeting to work out strategies for
> this??"
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> Any thoughts?
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> Kevin
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> ______________________________________________________________________
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> From: tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On
> Behalf Of Donald.Hobern at csiro.au [Donald.Hobern at csiro.au]
> Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 5:27 p.m.
> To: tdwg at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: [tdwg] TDWG in 2009
>
>
> Dear TDWG Members and Friends,
>
> TDWG 2009 will be help in Montpellier France from November 9-13. I
> thought I would take this opportunity to outline the activities I see
> as important for TDWG this year leading up to the conference this
> November. There are many important things for us to be doing in the
> lead up to the meeting.
>
> Consolidation of past work
>
> We have made much progress over the last few years in reworking our
> standards for greater interoperability. The LSID work and the
> associated LSID vocabularies have been a major part of this. These
> changes make it much easier to reuse TDWG standards with different
> technologies, to embed TDWG data elements in other structures, and to
> map other data formats into forms which can be interpreted as
> TDWG-compliant data. However this work is still incomplete. We need to
> formalise the vocabularies as an agreed high-level ontology or data
> model to support cross-project data integration. Many of our projects
> are awaiting a clear lead in this area. Please contact me if you are
> interested in leading some of this work or contributing to the
> discussion.
>
> One obvious example of the importance of this work comes from Annie
> Simpson's comments during her presentation in Perth. It should not be
> difficult for a group like GISIN to adopt TDWG standards and be able
> quickly to build a network to share data using those standards. I
> reiterate the challenge for us to solve this problem this year, using
> GISIN's requirements as a benchmark.
>
> It is encouraging to see that NCD nears the end of its public review
> and that TAPIR has just been submitted to the TDWG standards track. It
> would appear that the submission of Darwin Core is not far off either.
> Please help to ensure that we end up with effective standards that can
> be easily adopted by a wide audience.
>
> e-Biosphere 2009
>
> The e-Biosphere 2009 conference (http://www.e-biosphere09.org/) will
> take place in London in June. This goals of this conference are to:
>
>       * Present and discuss the extraordinary progress made in
>         Biodiversity Informatics over the past decade, 
>       * Provide participants with demonstrations of current
>         capabilities in this field, and 
>       * Bring stakeholders together to create a roadmap for the next
>         decade.
>
>
> The main meeting (1-3 June) has a programme of invited speakers who
> will provide an overview of what is happening in biodiversity
> informatics and promote a vision for the importance of this work.
> These sessions will address the first and second of the goals above.
> At the end of the week, there will be a smaller two-day workshop with
> representatives from a range of biodiversity informatics projects
> discussing synergies and efficient collaboration (the third goal).
>
> e-Biosphere is significant to TDWG for several reasons:
>
>      1. The opening session on 2 June will present the benefits of
>         data standards and integration, and we expect that many of the
>         other sessions will directly or indirectly highlight TDWG
>         work. We are also organising a booth to publicise the work of
>         TDWG and hope that this will be an opportunity to demonstrate
>         the value of our role to a wider audience. 
>      2. The e-Biosphere organisers have established an "Online
>         Conference Community" (http://forum.e-biosphere09.org/) to
>         engage the wider community in pre-conference discussions.  One
>         of the categories (to be added soon) will be on the role of
>         standards and tools in biodiversity informatics.  We encourage
>         TDWG members to contribute to this and to the other conference
>         discussions. 
>      3. TDWG will be represented in the roadmap discussions on 4-5
>         June.  We trust that this session will help us all to clarify
>         priorities for the next few years and will feed into
>         discussions at TDWG 2009 and beyond.
>
>
> TDWG 2009
>
>
> 
>
>
> In recent years TDWG conferences have moved away from their earlier
> format, with significant emphasis on working group meetings, to become
> more of a reporting conference on the activities of TDWG-related
> projects.  This has had some benefits, but has also in some ways
> weakened the organisation by reducing our focus on the core activity
> of developing and promoting standards.  The vitality of our working
> groups in large measure depends on the conference providing a focus
> for their activity.
>
>
> 
>
>
> For this reason, TDWG 2009 will be structured differently.  Monday and
> Friday of the conference have been reserved for plenary sessions, but
> for the rest of the conference we plan to run three parallel (and, I
> hope, intersecting) streams of activities.  One of these will be on
> the use of biodiversity informatics to support agriculture and crop
> diversity.  Another stream will be for TDWG to initiate activity in
> response to the roadmap developed at e-Biosphere 2009.  The third
> stream is still be be selected.  Each stream will include a range of
> activities (e.g. symposia, seminars, task group sessions, hackathons)
> planned to address key issues and to result in real deliverables to
> progress biodiversity informatics in the area.
>
>
> 
>
>
> We are establishing a Program Committee to plan the conference in
> detail and will keep you informed of progress.
>
>
> 
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
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>
>
> Donald
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> Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of
> Living Australia
>
> CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700,
> Canberra, ACT 2601
>
> Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile:
> 0437990208
>
> Email: Donald.Hobern at csiro.au
>
> Web: http://www.ala.org.au/
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