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Save the Date: BioDigiCon 2023
by Nelson,Gil 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

________________________________ [cid:d97151a7-7bdf-4cd7-8ff3-92625aac661a] Please save the date: iDigBio<https://www.idigbio.org/> is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually 19-20 September 2023. The 2023 event will focus on data generation and mobilization with special emphasis on presentations, hands-on workshops, and lively discussions that provide training, resource sharing, and workforce enhancement. Major topics will include digitization strategies for ensuring data quality, digitizing in support of the digital extended specimen, lightning talks by digitization practitioners from around the globe, updates from U.S. National Science Foundation-funded digitization projects, image and data storage, digitization workflows, and expanding biodiversity information through the digitization of trait data. BioDigiCon will address essential content for those working at the interface of physical specimens and the generation of digital data from those specimens. Open Call for Lightning Presentations from near and far to address innovative protocols, resources, tools, strategies, etc. TCN Representatives: Presentations will not be required this year, but they are encouraged. Abstract submission for all will open the week of July 10th. BioDigiCon is free to attend but registration is required. Stay tuned for updates and announcements in the coming weeks. If you have any questions, please contact Jill Goodwin, iDigBio Conference Manager at jgoodwin(a)floridamuseum.ufl.edu<mailto:jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu>. Jillian Goodwin iDigBio Conference Manager Florida Museum of Natural History 508-887-6043 www.idigbio.org<https://www.idigbio.org/>

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DCMI 2023 Submission Deadline Reminder - One Week Away
by DCMI Announce 27 May '23

27 May '23

Greetings, This is a friendly reminder that the poster, panel, tutorial, and student forum submission deadline for DCMI 2023 (Daegu, Korea) is one week away: June 2, 2023. For full details, please visit: www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/cfp Kyong Eun Oh Program Chair, DCMI 2023

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Denver: Science Data Administrator position
by Stan Blum 23 May '23

23 May '23

[ Cross-post from Taxacom. Original post by Frank-Thorsten Krell Senior Curator of Entomology, Editor-in-Chief Commissioner and Councillor, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Department of Zoology Denver Museum of Nature & Science ] The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is hiring a Science Data Administrator! Please share far and wide with your networks, and let me know if you have any questions. Closes 6/6, hiring range $80-$93,000 https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=DMNS&cws… Hiring Science Data Administrator, - Denver, CO< https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=DMNS&cws… > View job details and apply now phf.tbe.taleo.net I don't know enough about this position, but the link contains a comprehensive description. If you have questions, you might contact Melissa Bechhoefer Director of Integrative Collections melissa.bechhoefer(a)dmns.org Work 303.370.6401

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by Christy Semmens 14 May '23

14 May '23

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DCMI-2023 Conference: Call for Participation - Deadline Extended!
by DCMI Announce 09 May '23

09 May '23

DCMI 2023 Conference: Call for Participation - Deadline Extended! https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/cfp November 6-10, Daegu, Korea Metadata Innovation: Enabling Knowledge in a Data-Intensive World ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DEADLINES (EXTENDED) Papers (full and short): May 19, 2023, 11:59pm (AoE) Posters, Panels, Tutorials, and Student Forum: June 2, 2023, 11:59pm (AoE) Best Practices and Talks are by invitation ------------------------------------------------------------ For more than two decades, the Dublin Core community has been a fertile ground for researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers to exchange and share ideas, knowledge, experience, and innovative projects on metadata. After three years of pandemic conditions and three all-virtual conferences, many of us look forward to meeting again in person, so we are planning for an in-person meeting in early November, in Daegu, Korea. DCMI 2023, the twenty-first International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will embrace the whole spectrum of innovation in metadata design, implementation, and best practices, with a special focus on challenges and opportunities in a data-intensive world. Today's data-driven, data-dependent, and data-intensive environment requires metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), which is the underpinning of data and knowledge ecosystems. Metadata has never been more crucial than today. Trending fields related to digital transformation such as connected data catalogs, collaboration and remote work, artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital history and ethics, and open science depend on high-quality metadata. The parallel growth of data and metadata challenges the metadata community to rethink its research and practices in order to stay ahead of emerging trends. DCMI 2023 is a venue for discussing "innovative practice" - new solutions to practical problems. It draws participants from universities, research institutions, and LAMs (libraries, archives, museums), as well as corporations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. The organizers of DCMI 2023 seek inspirational submissions on innovative ideas, practices, and solutions that are built on theoretical models, empirical evidence, and ethical and just foundations of metadata. Submissions in the form of papers (long and short), posters, panels, tutorials, and student forums are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment, and best practices: * Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices * Curation, governance, resilience, and sustainability * Metadata quality and validation * Metadata analytics * Conceptual models and frameworks * Entity modeling and management * Metadata vocabularies * Interoperability and harmonization * Metadata automation, AI, and knowledge graphs * Lessons learned from research and implementation * Metadata and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) * Metadata history and ethics * Metadata for operational and research data * Metadata in digital humanities, open science, and business communications * Metadata and government * Metadata and commerce ** Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------------------------------ * At least one author of an accepted submission must be physically present at the conference to present the work in person (*with an exception of the student forum). * Submissions must follow the guidelines for one of the categories enumerated below. * All submissions must be in English. * All submissions must be made via the Submission System, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcmi2023 * Submissions must be a single Portable Document Format (PDF) along with the document's source. * The source file should be Open Office (.odf) Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), or LaTeX files in a single compressed zip file (.zip). ** Templates ------------------------------------------------------------ * Templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX are provided at the DCPapers template repository (https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates) . * All templates can be directly downloaded as a zip file ( https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/archive/refs/heads/main.zip) . * A template for Overleaf is provided at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/dcmi-2023/nvctyvrbcrmx * For queries and to report issues related to the templates, use only GitHub issues. https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/issues ** Formatting Guidelines ------------------------------------------------------------ * Page size: ISO A4 (8.27 in x 11.69 in / 21 cm x 29.69 cm) * Top and bottom margins: 1.18 in / 3 cm * Left margin: 1.14 in / 2.9 cm * Right margin: 1.13 in / 2.87 cm * Header from top: .5 in /1.27 cm ** Submission Categories ------------------------------------------------------------ Note: * The open-access conference proceedings are indexed by Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, ACM, and Crossref. Online proceedings will be available before the start of the conference. * Presentation slides, poster slide images, and student forum extended abstracts will be published on the DCMI website. ** Full Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Full papers either describe innovative work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practices. * 8-10 pages, single-spaced, plus references ** Short Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Short papers are narrower in scope than full papers and may be either a description of work in progress, or a project report that concisely describes a specific model, application, or activity. * 4-5 pages, single-spaced, plus references ** Posters ------------------------------------------------------------ Posters are for the presentation of projects, research under development, or late-breaking results. * 2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references ** Panels ------------------------------------------------------------ Panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata. Each panel serves as a focused exchange regarding the latest research and/or best practice in the area. * 1-2 page abstract with panelists' bios of 100-150 words each ** Tutorials ------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials introduce specific topics of current interest in metadata practice, optionally including hands-on practice. Proposals for tutorials must include: * 2-3 page proposal including: * Title of tutorial and topic to be covered (2-3 paragraphs) * Target audience and expected learning outcomes * Tutorial style: lecture, demonstration, hands-on practice, etc. * Any prior knowledge required (e.g., RDF, programming languages) * Whether participants must (or should) bring laptops or install software beforehand * Presenter bios (100-150 words each) ** Student Forum ------------------------------------------------------------ The student forum aims at providing an opportunity for master's and doctoral students to share their experiences and exchange ideas of best practices, research in progress, and findings in areas related to metadata innovation. * Student forum will be in a hybrid format. In-person participation is encouraged with the option of virtual. * Less than 1500 words plus references * All presenters at the student forum will receive free registration for the conference * All presenters attending the in-person conference will be automatically eligible for the Student Forum Award competition. The Student Forum Committee will select the winner who will receive a $500 prize to cover the travel costs ** Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ * Notification to authors: July 14, 2023 * Final copy due: August 4, 2023 Kyong Eun Oh Program Chair, DCMI 2023 https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/

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Abstract Deadline: Digital Data Conference Workshops Announced
by Nelson,Gil 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Abstract Deadline (April 26) is quickly approaching! Register Now<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-resear…> for the Hybrid 2023 Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference<https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2023-leveraging-digital-data-s…>, 5-7 June! [cid:e3388f57-fb91-4be9-9916-d1b0a5824333] See below for the newly announced workshops and plenary speakers! Event dates: June 5-7, 2023 Registration now open!<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-resear…> Abstract submission deadline: April 26 Event location: The 2023 conference will be held at Arizona State University, Tempe and virtually via Zoom. The local sponsor is ASU’s Global Futures Laboratory. Registration fees: In-person, Non-student Registration (including virtual participation): $100 In-person, Student Registration (including virtual participation): $50 Virtual Participation Only: Optional New Announced Speaker and Workshops! Newly Added Plenary Speaker: Makenzie Mabry, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Crop Wild Relatives and the Role of Herbaria in Future Food Crop Security In-person Workshops: Symbiota Skillshare and Capacity Building Workshop Symbiota portals–including the SEINet Network, the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria, the Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria, and many more–include a variety of features that enable efficient data management, access, and curation. This workshop will provide hands-on training in using Symbiota tools that allow users to, for example, upload data, manage annotations, manage loans, print label data, crowdsource data transcription, and create checklists. Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center The collections community is in the midst of a series of webinars, workshops, and focus groups focusing on Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center as proposed in the recent NASEM report and authorized by the U.S. Congress. This in-person focus/discussion group during this year's Digital Data Conference will address conversations to date and broaden the input into the Action Center concept. Addressing Roadblocks and Envisioning Solutions of the Digital Extended Specimen Concept This two-hour workshop and discussion session will bring together biodiversity informatics and data experts from throughout our community to address some of the possibilities and challenges implementing the Digital Extended Specimen concept. This session will address solutions to date and additionally look to the community for input and discussion. Open discussion: the NEON Biorepository infrastructure model This discussion session is offered to complement the opportunity to visit the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON Biorepository, in person during Digital Data 2023 at Arizona State University. The NEON project involves a structured, long-term plan to sample new, diverse, prioritized specimens across distributed sites of the North American subcontinent, process and store them a both intermediary peripheral facilities and a permanent centralized location, transform them into Darwin Core occurrences and published extended specimens, and actively make both samples and data available for loan to enable question-driven ecological and evolutionary research. Additional details and updates including the current draft agenda can be found on the conference wiki page: https://idigb.io/7 Jillian Goodwin iDigBio Conference Manager Florida Museum of Natural History 508-887-6043 www.idigbio.org

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DCMI 2023: One Month Left to Submit Your Papers - Don't Miss the Deadline!
by DCMI Announce 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Greetings, This is a friendly reminder that the paper submission deadline for DCMI 2023 (Daegu, Korea) is one month away: May 5, 2023. For full details, please visit: www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/cfp Kyong Eun Oh Program Chair, DCMI 2023

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DCMI 2023: Call for Participation
by DCMI Announce 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

DCMI 2023: Call for Participation https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/cfp November 6-10, Daegu, Korea Metadata Innovation: Enabling Knowledge in a Data-Intensive World ------------------------------------------------------------ For more than two decades, the Dublin Core community has been a fertile ground for researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers to exchange and share ideas, knowledge, experience, and innovative projects on metadata. After three years of pandemic conditions and three all-virtual conferences, many of us look forward to meeting again in person, so we are planning for an in-person meeting in early November, in Daegu, Korea. DCMI 2023, the twenty-first International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will embrace the whole spectrum of innovation in metadata design, implementation, and best practices, with a special focus on challenges and opportunities in a data-intensive world. Today's data-driven, data-dependent, and data-intensive environment requires metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), which is the underpinning of data and knowledge ecosystems. Metadata has never been more crucial than today. Trending fields related to digital transformation such as connected data catalogs, collaboration and remote work, artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital history and ethics, and open science depend on high-quality metadata. The parallel growth of data and metadata challenges the metadata community to rethink its research and practices in order to stay ahead of emerging trends. DCMI 2023 is a venue for discussing "innovative practice" - new solutions to practical problems. It draws participants from universities, research institutions, and LAMs (libraries, archives, museums), as well as corporations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. The organizers of DCMI 2023 seek inspirational submissions on innovative ideas, practices, and solutions that are built on theoretical models, empirical evidence, and ethical and just foundations of metadata. Submissions in the form of papers (long and short), posters, panels, tutorials, and student forums are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment, and best practices: * Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices * Curation, governance, resilience, and sustainability * Metadata quality and validation * Metadata analytics * Conceptual models and frameworks * Entity modeling and management * Metadata vocabularies * Interoperability and harmonization * Metadata automation, AI, and knowledge graphs * Lessons learned from research and implementation * Metadata and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) * Metadata history and ethics * Metadata for operational and research data * Metadata in digital humanities, open science, and business communications * Metadata and government * Metadata and commerce ** Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------------------------------ * At least one author of an accepted submission must be physically present at the conference to present the work in person (*with an exception of the student forum). * Submissions must follow the guidelines for one of the categories enumerated below. * All submissions must be in English. * All submissions must be made via the Submission System, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcmi2023 * Submissions must be a single Portable Document Format (PDF) along with the document's source. * The source file should be Open Office (.odf) Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), or LaTeX files in a single compressed zip file (.zip). ** Templates ------------------------------------------------------------ * Templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX are provided at the DCPapers template repository (https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates) . * All templates can be directly downloaded as a zip file ( https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/archive/refs/heads/main.zip) . * A template for Overleaf is provided at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/dcmi-2023/nvctyvrbcrmx * For queries and to report issues related to the templates, use only GitHub issues. https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/issues ** Formatting Guidelines ------------------------------------------------------------ * Page size: ISO A4 (8.27 in x 11.69 in / 21 cm x 29.69 cm) * Top and bottom margins: 1.18 in / 3 cm * Left margin: 1.14 in / 2.9 cm * Right margin: 1.13 in / 2.87 cm * Header from top: .5 in /1.27 cm ** Submission Categories ------------------------------------------------------------ Note: * The open-access conference proceedings are indexed by Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, ACM, and Crossref. Online proceedings will be available before the start of the conference. * Presentation slides, poster slide images, and student forum extended abstracts will be published on the DCMI website. ** Full Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Full papers either describe innovative work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practices. * 8-10 pages, single-spaced, plus references ** Short Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Short papers are narrower in scope than full papers and may be either a description of work in progress, or a project report that concisely describes a specific model, application, or activity. * 4-5 pages, single-spaced, plus references ** Posters ------------------------------------------------------------ Posters are for the presentation of projects, research under development, or late-breaking results. * 2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references ** Panels ------------------------------------------------------------ Panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata. Each panel serves as a focused exchange regarding the latest research and/or best practice in the area. * 1-2 page abstract with panelists' bios of 100-150 words each ** Tutorials ------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials introduce specific topics of current interest in metadata practice, optionally including hands-on practice. Proposals for tutorials must include: * 2-3 page proposal including: * Title of tutorial and topic to be covered (2-3 paragraphs) * Target audience and expected learning outcomes * Tutorial style: lecture, demonstration, hands-on practice, etc. * Any prior knowledge required (e.g., RDF, programming languages) * Whether participants must (or should) bring laptops or install software beforehand * Presenter bios (100-150 words each) ** Student Forum ------------------------------------------------------------ The student forum aims at providing an opportunity for master's and doctoral students to share their experiences and exchange ideas of best practices, research in progress, and findings in areas related to metadata innovation. * Student forum will be in a hybrid format. In-person participation is encouraged with the option of virtual. * Less than 1500 words plus references * All presenters at the student forum will receive free registration for the conference * All presenters attending the in-person conference will be automatically eligible for the Student Forum Award competition. The Student Forum Committee will select the winner who will receive a $500 prize to cover the travel costs ** Submission Deadlines ------------------------------------------------------------ * Papers (full and short): May 5th, 2023, 11:59pm (AoE) * Posters, Panels, Tutorials, and Student Forum: May 26th, 2023, 11:59pm (AoE) * Best Practices and Talks are by invitation ** Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ * Notification to authors: July 14, 2023 * Final copy due: August 4, 2023 Kyong Eun Oh Program Chair, DCMI 2023 https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/

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GeoLifeCLEF 2023 - Deep Species Distribution Modeling challenge
by Alexis Joly 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Dear all, We would like to invite you to participate in GeoLifeCLEF 2023, a machine learning competition that aims at predicting plant species composition in space and time. The competition is designed to support biodiversity management and conservation and to improve species identification and inventory tools. The primary objective is to predict the set of plant species present at a given location and time using Sentinel-2 satellite images and Landsat time-series, as well as other rasterized environmental data like land-cover, human footprint, bioclimatic, and soil variables. The challenge presents several difficulties, including multi-label learning from single positive labels, strong class imbalance, multi-modal learning, and large-scale data. We provide a large-scale training set of approximately 5 million plant occurrences in Europe (single-label data) belonging to 10,000 different species, thus covering a large proportion of the European flora. Unlike in previous years, in which occurrence data was also used for evaluation, we provide presence-absence data, thus multi-label, for 5,000 validation and 20,000 test plots. The competition will be hosted by Kaggle and a summary of the results will be presented at the FGVC workshop at CVPR 2023 in Vancouver and at ImageCLEF 2023 in Thessaloniki. Give it a try! More details can be found in: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/geolifeclef-2023-lifeclef-2023-x-fgvc10… Best regards, The GeoLifeCLEF23 organizers

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DCMI 2023: Call for Participation
by DCMI Announce 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

DCMI 2023: Call for Participation November 6-10, Daegu, Korea DCMI 2023, the twenty-first International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications will be held as an in-person conference on November 6-10, in Daegu, South Korea. The organizers of DCMI 2023 seek inspirational submissions on innovative ideas, practices, and solutions that are built on theoretical models, empirical evidence, and ethical and just foundations of metadata. Submissions in the form of papers (full and short), posters, panels, tutorials, and student forums are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment, and best practices: * Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices * Curation, governance, resilience, and sustainability * Metadata quality and validation * Metadata analytics * Conceptual models and frameworks * Entity modeling and management * Metadata vocabularies * Interoperability and harmonization * Metadata automation, AI, and knowledge graphs * Lessons learned from research and implementation * Metadata and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) * Metadata history and ethics * Metadata for operational and research data * Metadata in digital humanities, open science, and business communications * Metadata and government * Metadata and commerce SUBMISSION CATEGORIES The template for submissions will be published on the conference website shortly. Please check []( https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2023/)[https://www.dublincore.org/co…) for updates. FULL PAPERS Full papers either describe innovative work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practices. 8-10 pages, single-spaced, plus references SHORT PAPERS Short papers are narrower in scope than full papers and may be either a description of work in progress, or a project report that concisely describes a specific model, application, or activity. (4-5 pages, single-spaced, plus references) POSTERS Posters are for the presentation of projects, research under development, or late-breaking results. (2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references) PANELS Panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata. Each panel serves as a focused exchange regarding the latest research and/or best practice in the area. (1-2 page abstract with panelist bios of 100-150 words each) TUTORIALS Tutorials introduce specific topics of current interest in metadata practice, optionally including hands-on practice. (2-3 page proposal) STUDENT FORUM The DCMI Student Forum aims at providing an opportunity to master's and doctoral students to share their experiences and exchange ideas of best practices, research in progress, and findings in areas related to metadata innovation. \* Student forum will be in a hybrid format. In-person participation is encouraged with the option of virtual. (Less than 1500 words plus references) SUBMISSION DEADLINES * Papers (full and short): May 5th, 2023 * Posters, Panels, Tutorials, and Student forum: May 26th, 2023 NOTE * Peer-reviewed papers will be assigned DOIs and published online in the conference proceedings. Papers will be available before the start of the conference. The papers are indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM, and Crossref. * At least one author of an accepted submission must be physically present at the conference to present the work in person (\*with the exception of the student forum). * More detailed information and guidelines for submissions will be available in early March. Kyong Eun Oh Program Chair, DCMI 2023

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