June 2021 - tdwg-content - lists.tdwg.org

Public comment open for Regions of Interest proposals for Audubon Core
by Baskauf, Steven James 21 Jul '21

21 Jul '21

The Audubon Core Maintenance Group seeks public comment on a set of proposed term additions and changes designed to enable the designation of Regions of Interest (ROIs) within media items. These regions are defined using dimensions of space, time, and frequency and enable users to refer to particular parts of the media resource that are associated with occurrences of individual organisms. This proposal has been developed by the Maintenance Group through a series of meetings over the past year that examined existing approaches and solicited input from the community. The Maintenance Group now considers the proposal mature enough to move into the public review phase as described in section 3.3 of the Vocabulary Maintenance Specification (http://rs.tdwg.org/vms/doc/specification/#33-changes-to-vocabulary-terms). To see the proposed changes, view the four issues at https://github.com/tdwg/ac/milestone/4. The preferred method for commenting is to add a comment to a particular issue in the GitHub tracker. If you have problems using the GitHub system, you can also email comments to the convener at steve.baskauf(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu> and he will paste them into the tracker. If you would like to indicate support, you can state it in a comment or use the “thumbs up” reaction. The public comment period will commence on 23 June 2021 and will end on 23 July or 30 days after consensus is reached. Please share this announcement on your networks so that we can reach as large an audience as possible. Steve Baskauf Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener on behalf of the group

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A TDWG Darwin Core Hour: Darwin Core - a (Public) Review
by Deborah Paul 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Hey TDWG folks, Less than 17 hours till this webinar! Have you registered? RE: Webinar: Darwin Core - a (Public) Review RE: The Evolution of Biodiversity Information Standards, find out how your input matters and what the results of the latest review bring to Darwin Core. Please register (there's still time) for tomorrow's webinar (two options) See background and link to register https://www.tdwg.org/news/2021/darwin-core-maintenance-proposals-and-webina… 1a 22 June 2021 16:00 UTC (show in local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Darwin+Core%3A++a…>) 1b 23 June 2021 00:00 UTC (show in local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Darwin+Core%3A++a…>) See you there! Deborah Paul, Chair TDWG (2021-2022) Ely Wallis, Deputy Chair TDWG (2021-2022) -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics (BI) Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- BI Standards (TDWG) Chair -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Events https://speciesfilegroup.org -- iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar

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Invitation: Phase 2 of Global Consultation on Digital Extended Specimens
by Deborah Paul 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Greetings TDWG'ers, RE: You're invited to contribute to Phase 2 of the Global Consultation on Digital Extended Specimens RE2: Please sign up for an overview webinar <https://www.gbif.org/event/6FF3aaAHoIkD9JToJjN4Vw/digital-extended-specimen…> (two to choose from) RE3: Please note you can soon contribute in the online forum at GBIF for this six-week event. Background. Next week, the alliance for biodiversity knowledge will convene a follow up to the consultation <https://discourse.gbif.org/t/converging-digital-specimens-and-extended-spec…> that was held in February and March to converge the ideas behind two related but distinct concepts: - the Digital Specimen <https://dissco.tech/2020/03/31/what-is-a-digital-specimen/>, proposed by the Europe-based Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), - and the Extended Specimen <https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/BCoN/Extend…>, which emerged from the Biological Collections Network (BCoN). Phase 2 will focus on capturing the infrastructure capabilities needed to support Digital Extended Specimens. Similar to the first phase, a landing page for the second consultation <https://discourse.gbif.org/t/digital-extended-specimens-phase-2/2651> has been created and is now live on the GBIF community forum (links below) Consultation Format: Phase 2 of the virtual global consultation will involve two components: * Two opening webinar sessions on June 15, scheduled nine time zones apart at UTC 05:00 and UTC 15:00 to support wider global participation, to introduce the topics to be discussed. Pre-register for the introductory sessions here <https://www.gbif.org/event/6FF3aaAHoIkD9JToJjN4Vw/digital-extended-specimen…>. * An open, facilitated online consultation running between June 15 and July 27, 2021, consisting of multiple online discussion threads hosted on the GBIF community forum. Who should participate? Anyone with an interest in natural history collections can join the consultation as a contributor at any time and ensure that they receive regular updates on the process. We want to hear from you, especially if you: * Are a collections professional * Work with living, preserved, or geological specimens * Work for a data provider or aggregator * Participate in collections data management or data publishing * Are a researcher or end-user of collections data, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty * Are a bioinformatician or data scientist * Work for a standards organization * Work for a technology vendor or CMS developer * Work as an educator * Work for a publisher or journal * Possess expertise on legal, regulatory or ethical issues related to data management Phase 2 Consultation Topics: * Well-founded access points and data cyberinfrastructure alignment * Persistent identifier scheme(s) * Meeting legal, regulatory, ethical, and sensitive data obligations * Workforce capacity development and inclusion * Transactional mechanisms and provenance * Partnerships to collaborate more effectively GBIF, BCoN, ALA, DiSSCo, NSC Alliance, iDigBio, and TDWG, among others, invite you to contribute to this consultation <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__eur03.safelinks.protec…>, which aims to expand participation in the process, build support for further collaboration, identify key use cases, and develop an initial roadmap for community adoption and implementation. To read more about the background for this consultation click here <https://www.allianceforbio.org/post/digital-extended-specimens-a-second-com…>. In anticipation from your Chair, Deborah Paul Species File Group, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison on behalf of the Alliance for Biodiversity Knowledge, Consultation Phase 2 Team -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics (BI) Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Chair (2021-2022) -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Events https://speciesfilegroup.org

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Darwin Core Public Review status
by John Wieczorek 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Dear all, The initial 30-day Darwin Core review (with a one-day bonus) is now over. The Darwin Core Maintenance Group has reviewed the proposals that were under consideration and has considered that consensus has been achieved on 30 issues ( https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/labels/Process%20-%20prepare%20for%20Executive%…), which will now be progressed towards ratification. Ten issues remain controversial. Of these, six have been recommended to go to task groups for resolution (occurrenceStatus, occurrenceStatus controlled vocabulary, preparations, disposition, associatedSequences, biome). The other four contentious issues (individualCount, verbatimLabel, identificationQualifier, subgenus) will remain open under public review for another 30 days in pursuit of consensus so as not to lose any momentum. None of these ten issues will be included in the release resulting from this public review, which will proceed with the changes embodied in the aforementioned 30 resolved issues. Preparations are now under way for a release candidate to be presented to the TDWG Executive Committee for approval with the assistance of the Technical Architecture Group. Once presented, the Executive Committee has 30 days within which to decide to ratify all, part, or none of the proposed release. Cheers, John

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Announcing the ARK Alliance (arks.org)
by John Kunze 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mw8Lf5M_WbJ2h2Djyl-DiZvqp4JQt4FFH45OLaYsw…] <https://arks.org/> <https://arks.org/> We are pleased to announce the formation of the ARK Alliance<https://arks.org/>, an open global community supporting Archival Resource Keys (ARKs). The ARK Alliance succeeds the ARKs-in-the-Open initiative<http://arksintheopen.org/>, begun in 2018. We invite you to visit us at our new website<https://arks.org/>, which contains guidance on how to get started with ARKs, resources, news, the community, and links to email forums for users in English and French. ARK users can receive news and updates from the ARK community by subscribing to the ARK Alliance newsletter<http://eepurl.com/hnpLi5> and following the ARK Alliance on Twitter<https://twitter.com/arks_org>. The ARK Alliance has three working groups and welcomes your participation, which can take many forms. Please visit the community<https://arks.org/community/> page to learn about ways to become involved. About ARKs: ARKs are used as “persistent identifiers”, which are stable, trusted references (names) for information objects. Among other things, they aim to be web addresses (URLs) that don’t return 404 Page Not Found errors. ARKs are similar to DOIs, URNs, and Handles. All of them ● were introduced over 20 years ago, ● exist in large numbers (8.2 billion ARKs, 240 million DOIs, etc.), ● start with a string to identify the name assigning authority, ● require the active updating of URL redirects, and ● support research and scholarship, appearing in the Data Citation Index, Wikipedia, ORCiD.org profiles, etc. In contrast, ARKs are cheaper, more flexible, and less centralized, letting you ● create unlimited identifiers without paying for the right to do so, ● add any kind of metadata, including no metadata, ● append extensions and query strings during resolution, ● link directly to an article, image, or spreadsheet that is immediately usable by people and software without making them first stop at a landing page, and ● make millions of ARKs resolvable by managing just one ARK, via a mechanism called suffix passthrough. Who uses ARKs: End users, especially researchers, rely on ARKs for long term access to the global scientific and cultural record, where by design they identify anything digital, physical, or abstract. [image.png] Some things that have ARKs — an article, violin, genealogy, painting, book, sports photo, and plant specimen — assigned by the Louvre, Smithsonian Institution, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, and FamilySearch. Over 770 organizations are registered to create ARKs, including libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, government agencies, and vendors. Additional organizations are signing on rapidly. [image.png]

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