Dear All,
We are writing to you as researchers from the University of Regina in Regina, Canada who are studying open data. We invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025 if you use or provide open data or FAIR data or if you are interested in using semantic metadata to improve the usability of your data.
The survey is estimated to take 15-20 minutes to complete, and it is available at the following link:https://uregina.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2ryvDaooieWaAjY
Your responses will provide invaluable insights into the state of the open data community in 2025. You may choose to answer as open data user or provider if one of those roles dominates your time or both if they make equal demands of your attention. Please help to improve the power of the survey by sharing this invitation to participate widely within your networks. However, there is no obligation for you to pass along this invitation, and there will be no penalty to you if you do not share it.
You can read more about the survey at: https://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/projects/open-data/community-survey-202…
Data from the study will be posted as open data at these locations:
* https://<https://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/projects/open-data/community-survey-202…>www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/projects/open-data/community-survey-2025<https://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/projects/open-data/community-survey-202…>
* https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/heptingd<https://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/projects/open-data/community-survey-202…>/
The survey has been approved by the Research Ethics Board at the University of Regina in Regina, Canada. Funding for this survey has been provided by the DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) Alliance, an international collaboration dedicated to developing metadata standards and semantic products for describing social science data, data covering human activity, and other data based on observational methods.
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Please note that there are inherent security issues when using email as a communication tool. By default, emails are not encrypted and are vulnerable to interception by outside sources or someone may see that you are involved in this research if you leave your browser open. We will use the phrase “Meeting Reminder” in the subject-line of all email correspondence so you will know the email is from us and recommend you submit any email queries using the same term.
Daryl Hepting, Ph.D.
daryl.hepting(a)uregina.ca<mailto:daryl.hepting@uregina.ca>
Alain Maubert Crotte
alain.maubertcrotte(a)uregina.ca<mailto:alain.maubertcrotte@uregina.ca>
Greetings Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG'ers,
RE: Just TWO Days till TaxonWorks Together 2025
<https://together.taxonworks.org/> - Registration open and free! May 6 -
8 online. Please remember to share this with colleagues and students not
on the TDWG listserv so they don't miss out. Thanks!
This year's #TWT2025 offers a wide variety of topics. Perhaps of
special interest to the TDWG community:
* Building biodiversity informatics tools with the AI-lephant in the room
* geoBoundaries: Challenges to curating (and using) global gazetteers
- a conversation with Dan Runfola
* Stories of (Data) Transition in the Realm of Biodiversity Informatics
* Exploring emerging practical informatics needs surrounding the
rapidly expanding use of eDNA
* Adapting our biodiversity informatics infrastructure to keep pace
with the evolution of what we think a taxon is - a conversation with
Wayne Maddison
* Natural History Collections in TaxonWorks: Entering a Community
Consensus Phase
Why TaxonWorks as digitization software? Status and vision.
Opportunity for questions focusing on digitization functionality.
Announcement of *a year-long working group on SpecimenPages*,
facilitated by the SFG.
* Informatics opportunities integrating field stations and
collections, with special reference to the practical needs and
opportunities at the Illinois Natural History Survey - a panel with
Field Station and Collection Managers: Auriel Fournier, James Lamer,
Arianna Kuhn, Enrique Santoyo Brito, and Jamie Minneart-Grote
* Why are the Earth's scientific collections important? Perspectives
from a catalyzed series of events emerging during COVID 19 - with
guests Pam Soltis and Cody Thompson
Most sessions are moderated discussions with opportunities for your
input. Hear from people that inspire us, and add your voice to the
conversation. Check the agenda for more session time and date details
<https://together.taxonworks.org/>. We welcome everyone and look forward
to your participation and insights.
In anticipation,
Debbie, for the SFG and TWT2025
/PS -- *please (please) share with your colleagues and students far and
wide, thanks!*
PPS -- yes there is cross-posting :-)/
--
- Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison
- Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois
-- Natural History Collections and Museomics NHCM Editor-in-Chiefhttps://nhcm.pensoft.net
-- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Past Chair 2021-2022
-- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment
-- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org
