September 2019 - tdwg-content

Proposal to revise Audubon Core Usage guidelines for dc:type and dcterms:type
by Baskauf, Steven James 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

In its 2019-08-29 meeting, the Audubon Core Maintenance Group approved moving forward on a proposal to revise the Usage notes for the terms dc:type and dcterms:type in Audubon Core. This email is to announce the beginning of a 30 day public comment period on that proposal. To read and comment on the proposal, see https://github.com/tdwg/ac/issues/144 The public comment period is scheduled to end on 2019-10-24. Steve Baskauf Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener on behalf of the group -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. Data Science and Data Curation Specialist Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235, USA Office: Eskind Biomedical Library, EMB 111 Phone: (615) 343-4582 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/

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Request for use cases for views controlled vocabularies
by Baskauf, Steven James 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

The Views Controlled Vocabularies Task Group has been tasked by the Audubon Core Maintenance Group to develop controlled vocabularies for the terms ac:subjectPart and ac:subjectOrientation. In order to determine the requirements for the controlled vocabularies, the Task Group is collecting use cases from the community. If you have used or would like to use either of these two properties of a media item that describe what is being viewed and how, we would love to have your input. To submit one or more use cases, use the form at https://forms.gle/R8b329g5y12ybT347 . For additional information and to see use case examples, visit this page at the Task Group Github site: https://github.com/tdwg/ac/blob/master/views/use-case-examples.md . If you have questions, please email me at steve.baskauf(a)vanderbilt.edu or any of the other core members listed on the Task Group home page: https://github.com/tdwg/ac/tree/master/views Use cases will be accepted through 2019-11-01. Steve Baskauf on behalf of the Views Controlled Vocabularies Task Group -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. Data Science and Data Curation Specialist Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235, USA Office: Eskind Biomedical Library, EMB 111 Phone: (615) 343-4582 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/

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Proposal to add the ac:ServiceAccessPoint class to Audubon Core
by Baskauf, Steven James 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

In its 2019-08-29 meeting, the Audubon Core Maintenance Group approved moving the proposal to add the class ac:ServiceAccessPoint to public comment. To read about the proposed term and the justification for adding it, and to comment on the proposal, see this issue: https://github.com/tdwg/ac/issues/137 Steve Baskauf Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener on behalf of the group -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. Data Science and Data Curation Specialist Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235, USA Office: Eskind Biomedical Library, EMB 111 Phone: (615) 343-4582 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/

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Proposal to remove layers property from Audubon Core
by Baskauf, Steven James 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

In its 2019-08-29 meeting, the Audubon Core Maintenance Group approved moving forward on a proposal to remove the "layers" property from all terms in Audubon Core. This email is to announce the beginning of a 30 day public comment period on that proposal. To read the proposal, see https://github.com/tdwg/ac/blob/master/historical/remove-layers-proposal-20… To comment on the proposal, make comments on this issue: https://github.com/tdwg/ac/issues/143 Steve Baskauf Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener on behalf of the group -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. Data Science and Data Curation Specialist Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235, USA Office: Eskind Biomedical Library, EMB 111 Phone: (615) 343-4582 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/baskauf/

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