February 2013 - tdwg-content

iDigBio Train-the-Trainers Georeferencing Workshop Oct 8 - 12, 2012
by Deb Paul 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

** Hi Everyone, The Georeferencing Working Group at iDigBio is pleased to announce our first "Train-the-Trainers" Georeferencing Workshop for Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs) and others in engaged in the digitization of biological collections in the United States. See: https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbios-first-train-trainers-georeferencin… for details. Three slots are still available in this workshop that is designed to focus on training participants to teach others to georeference. If you are interested, please send an application describing the reason(s) for your interest in the workshop, the current and future projects that will benefit from your attendance, and any previous experience you have with georeferencing to iDigBio's Program Assistant, Cathy Bester, cbester(a)flmnh.ufl.edu What: Train-the-Trainers -- Georeferencing Workshop Where: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Who: Interested members of current TCNs and others in the biodiversity natural history collections community. When: October 8-12, 2012 Contact: Deborah Paul dpaul(a)fsu.edu for further information. Best, Deb and the iDigBio Georeferencing Working Group Deborah Paul User Services, iDigBio Institute for Digital Information, iDigInfo Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32308 850-644-6366

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Open Annotation Ontology Rollout
by Bob Morris 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

The W3C Open Annotation Community Group <http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/> is pleased to announce three public meetings introducing the Open Annotation Data Model Community Specification. The Open Annotation Core Data Model <http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/> specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the most common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web resource. These day-long public roll-outs, carried out in concert with the Annotation Ontology and the Open Annotation Collaboration, and made possible by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will inform digital humanities and sciences computing developers, curators of digital collections and scholars using digital content about the W3C Open Annotation Community Group’s work. Participants will learn about the data model's core features and advanced modules through tutorials, a showcase of existing implementations, Q&A sessions with community implementers and live demonstrations. Topics will include: * The Open Annotation Data Model * The W3C Open Annotation Community Group * Existing implementations * Developer tools & resources Rollout times and locations: * U.S. West Coast Rollout – 09 April 2013 at Stanford University Registration: <https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010270> * U.S. East Coast Rollout – 06 May 2013 at the University of Maryland Registration: <https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010271> * U.K. Rollout – 24 June 2013 at the University of Manchester Registration: <https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010272) There is no registration fee but RSVP (online) is required. RSVP for a rollout near you using one of the links above. For more information and individual agendas, see: <http://www.openannotation.org/RolloutInfo.html> -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.

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iDigBio Hackathon - Day 1 - Listen in 9AM - Noon CST
by Debbie Paul 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hi Everyone, Are you interested in digitization workflows for natural history museum collections that involve OCR, machine learning and natural language processing? iDigBio's first Hackathon starts this morning, Wednesday February 13th and begins with 10 minute lightning talks by participants sharing their results so far to parse OCR output. Participants will spend 2 days together sharing and tweaking algorithms aimed at making parsing OCR output better. Other big topics of the hackathon are image processing/segmentation/analysis and also the continued need for user-interface development for interacting with the OCR output (front-end human-in-the-loop and api interfaces). Tune in: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/augmentocr 9AM - to about noon CST. Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/aocrhackathonwiki Works better with Firefox (b/c of Flash). Headsets are a good idea for best sound. From all of us at the Hackathon, See you there. Deb

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