[tdwg] Survey on biodiversity Knowledge Organization

Bob Morris morris.bob at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 05:12:34 CEST 2010


Dear colleague,

The team listed below is charged by the Global Biological Information
Facility (GBIF) with developing a position paper about its future
needs for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), a rubric which
includes thesauri, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, gazetteers,
and other such resources. The paper will cover tools, impediments to
deployment, training requirements, etc. After we draft it, the
position paper will be put forth for a period of public comment before
final recommendations to GBIF.

In order to put together the position paper, we solicit  opinions,
experiences, needs, and resources already in place about Knowledge
Organization for biodiversity research. Please go to
http://surveymonkey.com/GBIFKOSurvey to participate in the survey.

We especially value your input about points you feel the survey doesn’t cover.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues or mailing
lists you think relevant, hopefully to people who may not have seen it
already.

Thanks

GBIF KOS position paper team
Bob Morris, Convenor,
Terry Catapano, Donald Hobern, Hilmar Lapp, Norman Morrison, Natasha
Noy, Mark Schildhauer, Dave Thau

September 7, 2010

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Robert A. Morris
Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
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Associate, Harvard University Herbaria
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