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Audubon Core Maintenance Group call on 2018-05-02 at 18:00 UTC
by Steve Baskauf 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

The AC Maintenance Group will hold a Google Hangout call on Wednesday, May 2 from 18:00 to 19:00 UTC. The meeting will focus primarily on two issues: looking at the issues in the tracker to decide which have the highest priority, and discussing how to move forward on cleaning up the Audubon Core documentation. The meeting is public and can be joined at this link: https://hangouts.google.com/call/087n5tWXz_8HsEtO0XW4AAEE The meeting time should correspond to 2 PM EDT (US UT-4), 8 PM CEST (Europe UT+2), and 4 AM Thursday, May 3 AEST (Australia UT+10). Check your favorite time zone converter for your local time. -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Principal Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: PMB 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/

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Timey-wimey stuff! 4/24 DwC Hour Webinar "The Problem of Time: Dealing with Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Specimens in Darwin Core!
by Deborah Paul 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Darwin Core (DwC) Hour #13 is almost here:The Problem of Time: Dealing with Paleontological and Zooarchaeological Specimens in Darwin Core <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_conten…>! /When/:*Tuesday, 24 April 2018* /Time/:*1pm Eastern / 5pm UTC* /Where/:https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.c…> The temporality of specimens is a quintessential piece of information that undeniably adds research value. Part of what makes specimens so invaluable is the fact that they represent life in a certain form at a particular place and time. However, there are some complications when it comes to reporting and comparing collection dates and the ages or chronology of ‘modern’ specimens to those from paleontological or zooarchaeological relevant time frames. This Darwin Core Hour aims to take a deeper look at some of these complexities, to begin community discussions of how these important data should be portrayed in Darwin Core, and to provide a starting point for these discussions by introducing the Chronometric extension for Darwin Core that is currently under development. However, there are some complications when it comes to reporting the collecting dates versus the ages or chronology of ‘modern’, paleontological, and zooarchaeological specimens, as well as making meaningful comparisons across represented time frames (e.g., modern, archaeological, paleontological). /Presenter/: Laura Brenskelle, University of Florida/Florida Museum of Natural History Please bring or submit questions for open discussions in each webinar:https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_zja2muz&d=…> EXTRAS: * Explore the Darwin Core Questions & Answers wiki:https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_tdwg_dwc-2D…> * See which of your questions have been asked and answered so far:https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_tdwg_dwc-2D…> * Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a webinar on a DwC topic:https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinyurl.com_zja2muz&d=…> * See what terms DwC recommends using a controlled vocabulary for:https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_tdwg_dwc-2D…> * Compare the above to what's actually inside some of the DwC fields that suggest using a controlled vocabulary (data from GBIF, iDigBio, VertNet, and soon ALA):https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_tdwg_dwc-2D…> Happy Darwin Core and Data Quality, and hope to see you soon! - Deborah Paul, et al from the***Darwin Core Hour Team* /(please kindly excuse cross-postings!) DwC Hour is a regular webinar series brought to you by the Darwin Core Hour Team and members of the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI). We welcome input for this series from everyone worldwide. We use Adobe Connect for our webinars. Seehttps://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_i…>for hints on best experience (hint: use headsets!)/ -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member SPNHC Liaison, Member-At-Large and Member International Relations Committee SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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