<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px"><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol"><span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Darwin</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Core</span></span> (DwC) Hour #</font><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";box-sizing:border-box">14</span><font color="#24292e" face="-apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol"> is TODAY: </font><b style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol""><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-attribution-darwin-core-extension-what-would-look" target="_blank">An Attribution <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Darwin</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Core</span></span> Extension - What Would That Look Like?</a></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">WHEN: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Monday, October 29 </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">at </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">11:00am</span> EDT / <b>15:00</b> UTC</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">WHERE: </span><a href="https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";background-color:initial;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px">PRESENTERS: <b>Anne Thessen</b> (Oregon State University, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-3327" target="_blank">ORCID</a>) & <b>David Shorthouse</b> (CMN, <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230" target="_blank">ORCID</a>).<br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px">ABSTRACT: Research collections are an important tool for understanding the Earth, its systems, and human interaction. Despite the importance of collections, many are not maintained or curated as thoroughly as we desire. Part of the reason for this is the lack of professional reward for collection, curation, or maintenance. To address this gap in attribution metadata, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization co-endorsed a Working Group to create recommendations for the representation of attribution metadata. After 18 months, this Working Group recommended the use of PROV entities and properties to link people (Agent), the curatorial actions they perform (Activity), and the digital or physical objects they are curating (Entity). Assigning a Role to an Agent is optional. These recommendations are discussed in the context of the RDA, TDWG, and existing standards.<br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px">Future work includes (1) adapting these recommendations to the specific needs of TDWG and the natural history collections community, which could include development of a <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Darwin</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Core</span></span> extension, (2) recommendations on how to best record agents, activities, and entities in collections management platforms such that these data can be shared, and (3) recommendations and possible solutions to help accelerate the process of reconciling agents and their activities in legacy data.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">EXTRAS:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol""><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box">Explore the <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Darwin</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Core</span></span> Questions & Answers wiki: <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">See which of your questions have been asked and answered so far: <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a webinar on a DwC topic: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none">https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">See what terms DwC recommends using a controlled vocabulary for: <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Compare the above to what's actually inside some of the DwC fields that suggest using a controlled vocabulary (data from GBIF, iDigBio, VertNet, and soon ALA): <a href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data</a></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">Happy <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Darwin</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Core</span></span> and Data Quality, and hope to see you today!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol"">Erica Krimmel, et al. from the iDigBio Data Mgmt Interest Group and the <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Darwin</span></span> <span class="gmail-m_-7415230734590071831gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Core</span></span> Hour Team</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol""><i>Please kindly excuse cross-postings! Webinar series brought to you by the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI). We use Adobe Connect for our webinars; see </i><i><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(3,102,214);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:initial;text-decoration-line:none">https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing</a> for hints on best experience.</i></p></div>