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Public Review of Material Sample Task Group proposals initiated
by John Wieczorek 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

Hi folks, I just made an announcement <https://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2023-June/003824.html> via the tdwg-content listserv and a separate message to the TDWG Executive Committee to initiate the public review of the 30 proposals set forth by the Material Sample Task Group. The Executive Committee should see to the announcement on the TDWG website, plus follow up with announcements via social media. Feel free to do the same. Thanks to everyone for your persistence and to Teresa for her fearless leadership to get us to this point. Fingers crossed for good outcomes in a timely fashion. Cheers, John

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Re: [dwc-material-sample] MaterialSample Task Group Term addition/change package review
by Christian Bölling 05 May '23

05 May '23

Dear Teresa and all, I had a look at the material in the package and apart from the discussions on how the quality of being a Sample or a Specimen is reflected in the definitions and alignment of the existing NTR for dwc:MaterialEntity wit the review package I think I would give the proposal within the chosen scope of activity a thumbs up. I would like to suggest though, to consistently include as Demand Justification in the Term Requests simply the following phrase: Material Sample Task Group <https://www.tdwg.org/community/osr/material-sample/>, which includes representatives of over 10 organizations. On the linked Task Group page, all organizations implicated in the group will be visible. Thank you Teresa for putting up the review package! Best Christian *Von:* dwc-material-sample <dwc-material-sample-bounces(a)lists.tdwg.org> *Im Auftrag von *Teresa Mayfield-Meyer *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2023 02:19 *An:* dwc-material-sample(a)lists.tdwg.org *Betreff:* [EXT] [dwc-material-sample] MaterialSample Task Group Term addition/change package review MaterialSample Task Group Member, We had set a goal to put a review package together by May 1 and although we are behind, we are close! Please review the currently proposed package <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/tree/main/review%20package>. Each term has an associated issue linked at the top of the document. Add comments in the issues if you think anything needs further discussion/revision. Although I have proposed changes to FossilSpecimen, LivingSpecimen and PreservedSpecimen, I am prepared to drop those if they are going to hold up the proposal of this package for public review. We have meetings scheduled for May 17 and my current goal is to finalize the package at those meetings, then submit the results to the main TDWG repo. We are close to accomplishing something! I appreciate all of your time and effort on this Task Group and hope that we can wrap this up shortly. Adios, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos <https://arctosdb.org/> Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044>* It's not dead if it has data!

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MaterialSample Task Group Term addition/change package review
by Teresa Mayfield-Meyer 04 May '23

04 May '23

MaterialSample Task Group Member, We had set a goal to put a review package together by May 1 and although we are behind, we are close! Please review the currently proposed package <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/tree/main/review%20package>. Each term has an associated issue linked at the top of the document. Add comments in the issues if you think anything needs further discussion/revision. Although I have proposed changes to FossilSpecimen, LivingSpecimen and PreservedSpecimen, I am prepared to drop those if they are going to hold up the proposal of this package for public review. We have meetings scheduled for May 17 and my current goal is to finalize the package at those meetings, then submit the results to the main TDWG repo. We are close to accomplishing something! I appreciate all of your time and effort on this Task Group and hope that we can wrap this up shortly. Adios, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos <https://arctosdb.org/> Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044>* It's not dead if it has data!

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Progress
by Teresa Mayfield-Meyer 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

MaterialSample Task Group, We had a pretty productive meeting today. Continuing our work, the next steps are to evaluate preparations <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/7> and associated sequences <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/9> as properties of MaterialEntity. Please visit the GitHub issues and discuss them there. A reminder that we have given ourselves a deadline of May 1 to develop a package to submit for review <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/milestone/1>, this means we have one more meeting (April 19, 2023) to round this up. I hope to see many of you next month but I hope to see all of you participating in the GitHub issues. Thank you for the time you give to this effort! Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos <https://arctosdb.org/> Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044>* It's not dead if it has data!

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MaterialEntity
by Teresa Mayfield-Meyer 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

TDWG MS Task Group, February 12 is fast approaching - please go to https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/34#issuecomment-1424362216 and make your opinions known. I suggest that we select from these two options and move forward. Please comment in Github rather than discussing in an email thread. Thank you! Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos <https://arctosdb.org/> Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044>* It's not dead if it has data!

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Re: [dwc-material-sample] Finalize new term request for material entities top-level term
by Bölling, Christian 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear all, The current draft for the term request for `dwc:MaterialEntity` including all incremental contributions ("commits") is visible for inspection at this URL: https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/blob/ntr-material-entity/primary_de… Thank you for the contributions so far - these go nicely together in my view. Please add any further comments regarding the proposal for the New Term Request for `dwc:MaterialEntity` until tomorrow 1pm UTC to either the dedicated discussion thread for the draft [1] ("the pull request" in git parlance) or the original discussion thread in the task group's repo [2]. Unless something controversial comes up, I will then pull the draft into the canonical version of this Task Group's repo. I also understand that the consensus view is to then use the draft and formulate an NTR in Dwc's main repo, which I offer to do right after merging. If you prefer a different course of action, please come forward and let us know also by tomorrow 1pm UTC. Best Christian [1] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/pull/32 [2] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/31 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Bölling, Christian Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2023 18:46 An: dwc-material-sample(a)lists.tdwg.org Betreff: Finalize new term request for material entities top-level term Dear all, following the task group's discussion and recommendation from January 18 I created a draft new term request (NTR) using the NTR template in the task group's repository [1]. The draft builds on the previous discussion in the task group [2] and the previous proposal to import dcterms:PhysicalResource to implement the top-level term [3] Significant parts of the draft NTR have been taken from the previous term request proposed by Steve Baskaufs. I took the liberty of re-using parts of it as many aspects of the two proposals are identical - they differ in how the top-level term is implemented, not in its intended role. The stability justification of the NTR makes reference to dwc:MaterialSample, dwc:PreservedSpecimen, dwc:LivingSpecimen, dwc:FossilSpecimen as existing terms in DwC which would be regarded as subclasses of the new term. While I think that what is contained in this section is correct, I wonder if information should be added regarding the addition of dwc:materialEntityType with an extensible list of corresponding values and if this means that the other terms need to be deprecated after all (I don't think they should - my understanding is that schema information (subclasses etc) and possibly other semantic information is easiest to complement the base terminology as additional layers if all relevant terms are actually included as individual elements in the terminology). Please advise. Please also review the usage notes and the examples in the NTR in particular. I know that the placement of dwc:Organism is contentious. The current examples reflect my understanding of the new term. Contributing to and Finalizing the draft: I added the NTR draft [1] to our workspace (i.e. the Material Sample repo) as a new file (materialentity.md) in a provisional copy of the repo (a "branch") intended to finalize the former. This is accompanied by an associated discussion thread (a "pull request") [4] collecting all contributions until the final version of the NTR (and possibly complementary material, if any) can be incorporated into the canonical version of the repo (the "base branch"). Feel free to add to / change the material in the new branch and/or comment in the corresponding pull request [4]. Alternatively, feel free to comment in the main issue in our repo [2] where the discussion has taken place so far (informing the draft NTR and associated pull request). After finalizing the NTR draft, the actual NTR would be made in DwC's main repo. I hope this procedure is in keeping with TDWG processes. Let's try to finalize this by the 9th of February so it can be incorporated in the public review. --- Christian [1] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/blob/ntr-material-entity/primary_de… [2] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/31 [3] https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/421# [4] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/pull/32 _____________________________ Dr. Christian Bölling Research Data Management Data Integration and Curation Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Invalidenstraße 43 10115 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 889140 - 8327 Email: christian.boelling(a)mfn.berlin

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Finalize new term request for material entities top-level term
by Bölling, Christian 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Dear all, following the task group's discussion and recommendation from January 18 I created a draft new term request (NTR) using the NTR template in the task group's repository [1]. The draft builds on the previous discussion in the task group [2] and the previous proposal to import dcterms:PhysicalResource to implement the top-level term [3] Significant parts of the draft NTR have been taken from the previous term request proposed by Steve Baskaufs. I took the liberty of re-using parts of it as many aspects of the two proposals are identical - they differ in how the top-level term is implemented, not in its intended role. The stability justification of the NTR makes reference to dwc:MaterialSample, dwc:PreservedSpecimen, dwc:LivingSpecimen, dwc:FossilSpecimen as existing terms in DwC which would be regarded as subclasses of the new term. While I think that what is contained in this section is correct, I wonder if information should be added regarding the addition of dwc:materialEntityType with an extensible list of corresponding values and if this means that the other terms need to be deprecated after all (I don't think they should - my understanding is that schema information (subclasses etc) and possibly other semantic information is easiest to complement the base terminology as additional layers if all relevant terms are actually included as individual elements in the terminology). Please advise. Please also review the usage notes and the examples in the NTR in particular. I know that the placement of dwc:Organism is contentious. The current examples reflect my understanding of the new term. Contributing to and Finalizing the draft: I added the NTR draft [1] to our workspace (i.e. the Material Sample repo) as a new file (materialentity.md) in a provisional copy of the repo (a "branch") intended to finalize the former. This is accompanied by an associated discussion thread (a "pull request") [4] collecting all contributions until the final version of the NTR (and possibly complementary material, if any) can be incorporated into the canonical version of the repo (the "base branch"). Feel free to add to / change the material in the new branch and/or comment in the corresponding pull request [4]. Alternatively, feel free to comment in the main issue in our repo [2] where the discussion has taken place so far (informing the draft NTR and associated pull request). After finalizing the NTR draft, the actual NTR would be made in DwC's main repo. I hope this procedure is in keeping with TDWG processes. Let's try to finalize this by the 9th of February so it can be incorporated in the public review. --- Christian [1] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/blob/ntr-material-entity/primary_de… [2] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/31 [3] https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/421# [4] https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/pull/32 _____________________________ Dr. Christian Bölling Research Data Management Data Integration and Curation Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Invalidenstraße 43 10115 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 889140 - 8327 Email: christian.boelling(a)mfn.berlin

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Adding a top-level term for material resources in Darwin Core - evaluating the alternatives
by Teresa Mayfield-Meyer 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Material Sample Task Group Member, If you are not already aware, a proposal was made by one of our members in the main Darwin Core repository to add a top-level term for material resources <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/421>. I agreed to this proposal after our Group's Working Session in November and I still believe it is the right path to keep information about material moving forward. However, some alternatives to the proposed value and definition have been raised and there is a very clear write up of them by another of our Task Group members here <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/31>. We discussed this write up and the pros and cons of the alternative terms/definitions at the Task Group meetings yesterday and those in the meeting would like everyone in the Task Group to read through the summary and think about which path for creating this term would be best. - importing dcterms:PhysicalResource to Darwin Core from Dublin Core - importing bfo:MaterialEntity to Darwin Core from BFO - creating dwc:MaterialEntity in Darwin Core Our plan is to decide at the early January meeting (January 18, 2023 10AM Denver) which path the Task Group prefers and report back to the initial proposal with our preference. Feel free to discuss the options in the TDWG_MS Github issue <https://github.com/tdwg/material-sample/issues/31>, but please try to keep discussions focused on this single question. Essentially, should we adopt a term from Dublin Core, adopt a term from BFO, or develop a separate term in Darwin Core. I hope that everyone has time with family and friends as 2022 winds down and I look forward to getting some material things done in 2023! Adios, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos <https://arctosdb.org/> Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044>* It's not dead if it has data!

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GBIF North America Update
by Teresa Mayfield-Meyer 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Material Sample Task Force Member, I just wanted to make everyone aware that I have been asked to give a brief (less than 5 minutes) update on our work at the GBIF North America Quarterly Meeting on November 10. I have co-opted slides from the TDWG update and want to make sure there are no glaring issues. You can review the slides here <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VxOrC1PCXuOFuWYTqapy4vjwHO14BaIy30A…>. Please leave any comments before November 2nd so that I have time to get the slides to the GBIF North America Steering Committee for review. Adios, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos <https://arctosdb.org/> Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1970-7044>* It's not dead if it has data!

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Invitation: TDWG MaterialSample Update @ Sat Nov 12, 2022 3pm - 4pm (MST) (dwc-material-sample@lists.tdwg.org)
by jegelewicz66＠gmail.com 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

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