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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is another event that TDWG should be aware of -- the NESCent sponsored hackathon on phylogenetic (database) interoperability. <A href="https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackathon"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackathon</FONT></A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org on behalf of Lee Belbin<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 2009-02-17 10:23 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Kevin Richards'; 'Technical Architecture Group mailing list'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The TAG should act as the ‘glue’ between the other TDWG groups. Is the key issue therefore the vocabularies/ ontology?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">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.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">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.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Kevin Richards<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, 13 February 2009 7:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Technical Architecture Group mailing list<BR><B>Subject:</B> [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">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.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">- LSID vocabulary work - elaboration of the vocabs, tools for working with the vocabs, ?</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">- mash ups</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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.</SPAN></P>
<P><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Consolidation of past work</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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<SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">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.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">e-Biosphere 2009</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The e-Biosphere 2009 conference (<A title=http://www.e-biosphere09.org/ href="http://www.e-biosphere09.org/" target=_blank>http://www.e-biosphere09.org/</A>) will take place in London in June. This goals of this conference are to:</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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).</SPAN></P>
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