Dear all,

Thank you all for the productive meeting and please excuse the delay in sending this summary around.

Our next meeting will be today, on March 30th at 4 pm UTC, following our fortnightly rhythm. As you know the time change in some regions has occurred. The UTC time of our meeting stays the same, which will translate to an additional hour later for Europe (6 pm CEST). If the changed time should not work for you, please contact me privately and we’ll try to reschedule future meetings.

Below, please find sections with a summary of our last meeting and next steps.

== SUMMARY ==

For extended notes please see our running notes document [1].

We discussed some key aspects of this TG:

The scope of this TG includes

mapping of DwC terms to MIxS core terms
developing an extension for sequence information to DwC with MIxS IRIs
testing TG outputs in the implementation space (Related Issue: Issue 53)
capturing notes and recommendations in our report about any additional aspects
option to extend this TG or convene a new one to capture MIxS environmental terms

The sustainability of our work in part relies on our ability to reliably track and detect new releases of the standards. DwC is using GitHub releases coupled with a backup on Zenodo, which we could leverage for this. A similar process is being discussed for MIxS. (Related issue: GSC Issue 120)

Recommendations to be added to our report:

MIxS environmental packages

MD had previously passed through the environmental packages and identified one potential mapping. We will capture the scarcity of potential mappings in our report (Related issue: Issue 52).
We have also identified environmental package terms that could be captured in the DwC measurement of fact extension and will note this in our report.
Additionally, we may add recommendations on possible other community vocabularies appropriate for capturing environmental parameter (e.g., NERC vocabularies)

Licensing information

Need for licensing information in the metadata as a requirement for FAIR data, recommend to use DC term (Related Issue: Issue 32).

Further outputs:

We may include a mapping of the upcoming biome term in DwC with controlled vocabulary (Related Issue: DwC Issue 38).

Based on input from CM, we’ve started to update the SSSOM spreadsheet to more closely follow the standard and add functionality (Related issues: Issue 54, SSSOM issue 22).

== NEXT STEPS ==

In preparation for our next meeting, please

add syntax predicates to the newly added columns in our SSSOM mapping spreadsheet
review the existing mappings to see if any should be updated in response to the major outcomes of this meeting. Please capture any suggestions on our issue tracker.

Thank you and best wishes,

Raïssa and Pier

[1] Running notes document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1569Q7D0Tm03vRQmu2L2WykI63Uk8Aa20GJBC7kUnMZ4/edit#heading=h.h1e3u14gjm5p

[2] DwC-MIxS mapping spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k6Xe1OREUVISLjw1XLrtLqWsE7QgvWf7lSIXEbqXDpA/edit?usp=sharing

[3] Issue tracker https://github.com/tdwg/gbwg/issues

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