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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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Status of Darwin Core Public Review
by John Wieczorek 20 May '21

20 May '21

Dear all, We are now almost 20 days into the minimum 30-day review period for the 40 changes to Darwin Core proposed on 2021-05-01 (see https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/milestone/14). If this public review is new to you, please refer to https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/wiki/Darwin-Core-Maintenance-Frequently-Asked-Q… . Of the 40 proposals, one (biome - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/38) will certainly be deferred to a Task Group for further development. There is currently consensus on 34 of the proposals, and each of these will be recommended for ratification if no indication of dissent arises through the rest of the review period. The status of two proposals (identificationQualifier - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/244, and the nameUsageIDs - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105) is unclear until verification that consensus has been reached. The remaining four proposals (recordedByID - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/102, occurrenceStatus - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 and its controlled vocabulary - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/342, and verbatimLabel - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32) are controversial. If no evidence of consensus can be reached by the 30-day minimum review period, the controversial proposals will be deferred for later consideration. If it appears that consensus can be reached on any of the controversial proposals, the review period will be extended for an additional 30 days from the time apparent consensus is established (everyone participating in the discussion expresses their satisfaction with the proposed solution). During any extension, all proposals will remain open for commentary. The current status of proposals to date is shown in the table below. Thank you on behalf of the Darwin Core Maintenance Group Term Issue Action Nature Status bibliographicCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/336 change non-normative consensus references https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/335 change non-normative consensus recordedByID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/102 new normative controversial individualCount https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/285 change non-normative consensus organismQuantity https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/338 change non-normative consensus lifeStage https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/321 change non-normative consensus occurrenceStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/342 new vocabulary normative controversial occurrenceStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 change normative controversial preparations https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/346 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339> change non-normative consensus disposition https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/347 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339> change non-normative consensus associatedMedia https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/337 change non-normative consensus associatedReferences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/334 change non-normative consensus associatedSequences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/332 change normative consensus associatedTaxa https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/331 change non-normative consensus associatedOccurrences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/324 change non-normative consensus associatedOrganisms https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/330 change non-normative consensus verbatimLabel https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32 new normative controversial samplingProtocol https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/322 change normative consensus biome https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/38 new normative task group country https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/340 change non-normative consensus locality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/315 change non-normative consensus verbatimLocality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/323 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329> change non-normative consensus verticalDatum https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/246 new normative consensus coordinateUncertaintyInMeters https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/309 change non-normative consensus footprintSRS https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/122 change normative consensus georeferenceVerificationStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/268 change normative consensus identificationQualifier https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/244 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101> change non-normative unclear verbatimIdentification https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/181 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101> new normative consensus identifiedByID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101 new normative consensus acceptedNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative unclear parentNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative unclear originalNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative unclear subfamily https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/44 new normative consensus genericName https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/29 new normative consensus subgenus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/320 change normative consensus infragenericEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/30 new normative consensus infraspecificEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/241 change non-normative consensus cultivarEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/41 new normative consensus relationshipOfResourceID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/283 new normative consensus retationshipOfResource https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/194 change non-normative consensus measurementValue https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/175 new normative consensus MaterialCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329 new normative consensus

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Re: [tdwg-content] tdwg-content Digest, Vol 124, Issue 2
by Ramona Walls 11 May '21

11 May '21

Congratulations and good work, chronometric age group! ------------------------------------------------------ Ramona L. Walls, Ph.D. Data Scientist, Ontologies, Semantics, and Metadata, Critical Path Institute Assistant Research Professor, Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona Part-time artist (https://www.instagram.com/omnivoresgratitutude/) On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 5:00 AM <tdwg-content-request(a)lists.tdwg.org> wrote: > Send tdwg-content mailing list submissions to > tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tdwg-content-request(a)lists.tdwg.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tdwg-content-owner(a)lists.tdwg.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tdwg-content digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. ChronometricAge Extension ready for prime time ;-) > (John Wieczorek) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 15:19:46 -0300 > From: John Wieczorek <tuco(a)berkeley.edu> > To: TDWG Content Mailing List <tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org> > Subject: [tdwg-content] ChronometricAge Extension ready for prime time > ;-) > Message-ID: > <CAHwKGGeZ1nNC1HSEDk5AUn3on9XBMoV3Fq3ucn57ereY=sb= > HQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear all, > > On behalf of the ChronometricAge Extension Task Group, it is with great > pleasure and a sigh of relief to announce the finalization of the > ChronometricAge Extension to Darwin Core and closure of the Task Group. > Everything, including the normative term list document ( > https://tdwg.github.io/chrono/list/), Quick Reference Guide ( > https://tdwg.github.io/chrono/terms/), and GBIF extension ( > > https://tools.gbif.org/dwca-validator/extension.do?id=http://rs.tdwg.org/ch… > ) > is now in production. The latter is available for immediate use in Darwin > Core Archives, and can be mapped in any instance of the Integrated > Publishing Toolkit that is enabled to use the extension. > > John >

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ChronometricAge Extension ready for prime time ;-)
by John Wieczorek 10 May '21

10 May '21

Dear all, On behalf of the ChronometricAge Extension Task Group, it is with great pleasure and a sigh of relief to announce the finalization of the ChronometricAge Extension to Darwin Core and closure of the Task Group. Everything, including the normative term list document ( https://tdwg.github.io/chrono/list/), Quick Reference Guide ( https://tdwg.github.io/chrono/terms/), and GBIF extension ( https://tools.gbif.org/dwca-validator/extension.do?id=http://rs.tdwg.org/ch…) is now in production. The latter is available for immediate use in Darwin Core Archives, and can be mapped in any instance of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit that is enabled to use the extension. John

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Public Review of proposed changes to the Darwin Core standard
by John Wieczorek 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Dear all, We’re happy to announce the opening of a minimum 30-day period for public review for the following set of proposed changes to Darwin Core. Please refer to the documentation we have provided on the review process and the maintenance of the Darwin Core standard in general at https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/wiki/Darwin-Core-Maintenance-Frequently-Asked-Q… . For your reference and convenience we are providing a table with links to the proposed changes, organized in keeping with the order in the Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide (https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/). The relevant issues are also listed in the following milestone: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/milestone/14. Your comments are welcome and important for the evolution of the Darwin Core standard. Thank you The Darwin Core Maintenance Team Category Term Issue Action Nature Record-level bibliographicCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/336 change non-normative Record-level references https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/335 change non-normative Occurrence recordedByID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/102 new normative Occurrence individualCount https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/285 change non-normative Occurrence organismQuantity https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/338 change non-normative Occurrence lifeStage https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/321 change non-normative Occurrence occurrenceStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/342 new vocabulary normative Occurrence occurrenceStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 change normative Occurrence preparations https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/346 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339> change non-normative Occurrence disposition https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/347 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339> change non-normative Occurrence associatedMedia https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/337 change non-normative Occurrence associatedReferences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/334 change non-normative Occurrence associatedSequenes https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/332 change normative Occurrence associatedTaxa https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/331 change non-normative Organism associatedOccurrences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/324 change non-normative Organism associatedOrganisms https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/330 change non-normative MaterialSample verbatimLabel https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32 new normative Event samplingProtocol https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/322 change normative Event biome https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/38 new normative Location country https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/340 change non-normative Location locality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/315 change non-normative Location verbatimLocality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/323 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329> change non-normative Location verticalDatum https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/246 new normative Location coordinateUncertaintyInMeters https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/309 change non-normative Location footprintSRS https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/122 change normative Location georeferenceVerificationStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/268 change normative Identification identificationQualifier https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/244 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101> change non-normative Identification verbatimIdentification https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/181 <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101> new normative Identification identifiedByID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101 new normative Taxon acceptedNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative Taxon parentNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative Taxon originalNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative Taxon subfamily https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/44 new normative Taxon genericName https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/29 new normative Taxon subgenus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/320 change normative Taxon infragenericEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/30 new normative Taxon infraspecificEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/241 change non-normative Taxon cultivarEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/41 new normative ResourceRelationship relationshipOfResourceID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/283 new normative ResourceRelationship retationshipOfResource https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/194 change non-normative DwCIRI measurementValue https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/175 new normative MaterialCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329 new normative

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Public Review of Chronometric Age Extension to Darwin Core open
by John Wieczorek 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

The Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group ( https://www.tdwg.org/community/dwc/) is pleased to announce that the ChronometricAge Task Group (https://www.tdwg.org/community/esp/chrono/) of the Earth Sciences and Paleontology Interest Group ( https://www.tdwg.org/community/esp/) has prepared a vocabulary enhancement for Darwin Core consisting of a ChronometricAge class and its properties. A minimum 30-day period for public comment is now open (2020-11-21). To view the proposal and/or engage in the review, visit https://github.com/tdwg/chrono/issues/15, which will provide further guidance and the means to comment. If you are unable to create GitHub comments, you can reply to this message or send comments to the ChronometricAge Task Group convenor at gtuco.btuco(a)gmail.com. In the absence of objections or substantive amendment requests, the review will close on 2020-12-21. John Wieczorek Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group convenor on behalf of the Task Group

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Re: [tdwg-content] Public Review of Chronometric Age Extension to
by Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

FYI there is an ontology for the geological timescale here https://github.com/CGI-IUGS/timescale-ont and a dataset representing the international chronostratigraphic chart nearby https://github.com/CGI-IUGS/timescale-data The International Commission on Stratigraphy are planning to adopt this as the point-of-truth for the standard geological timescale. This is possibly of overlapping scope with the DWC requirements. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:51:26 -0300 From: John Wieczorek <tuco(a)berkeley.edu> To: TDWG Content Mailing List <tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org> Subject: [tdwg-content] Public Review of Chronometric Age Extension to Darwin Core open Message-ID: <CAHwKGGeaOoovkWPYd8+Ug=knHVJqcKOeZkBNhUd42VomZ85Bpg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group ( https://www.tdwg.org/community/dwc/) is pleased to announce that the ChronometricAge Task Group (https://www.tdwg.org/community/esp/chrono/) of the Earth Sciences and Paleontology Interest Group ( https://www.tdwg.org/community/esp/) has prepared a vocabulary enhancement for Darwin Core consisting of a ChronometricAge class and its properties. A minimum 30-day period for public comment is now open (2020-11-21). To view the proposal and/or engage in the review, visit https://github.com/tdwg/chrono/issues/15, which will provide further guidance and the means to comment. If you are unable to create GitHub comments, you can reply to this message or send comments to the ChronometricAge Task Group convenor at gtuco.btuco(a)gmail.com. In the absence of objections or substantive amendment requests, the review will close on 2020-12-21. John Wieczorek Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group convenor on behalf of the Task Group

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Inviting You to #TaxonWorks Together 2020 - Nov 30 - Dec 4th
by Deborah Paul 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Greetings TDWG folk, RE: #TaxonWorks Together 2020 If you would like to find out more about TaxonWorks, and get together to contribute your ideas, and maybe even some code, please join us for a variety of events next week (Nov 30 - Dec 4). It's an opportunity to be part of fostering collaboration across software development efforts of our biodiversity informatics communities. Please peruse our plans: Details and to register (it's free), see https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks_together_2020 <https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks_together_2020> Do join us for all or at least some of the planned activities. Also feel free to forward to potentially interested parties.In addition, we're hosting the second "TaxonWorks at Nite" session during the week, a very chill session to just hang out with folks thinking in the veins of what we are trying to do. NOTE: if you're keen to install TaxonWorks on your local machine, there's a special session this Tuesday (Nov 24th) devoted to getting that done before next week. See you there! Debbie Paul and Matt Yoder (cc'd) -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics (BI) Community Liaison -/The Species File Group/ https://speciesfilegroup.org/ - University of Illinois -- BI Standards (TDWG) Deputy Chair and (BISS) Managing Editor -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar new email: dlpaul(a)illinois.edu

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New controlled vocabularies and terms added to Audubon Core
by Baskauf, Steven James 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

On 2020-10-13, the Executive Committee approved three new Audubon Core terms: ac:freqHigh, ac:freqLow, and the imported term mo:sample_rate. These terms will allow Audubon Core to better express terms related to sound recordings. Three new controlled vocabularies were also approved at that time. They were controlled vocabularies for ac:variant, ac:subtype, and dcterms:format (as well as their literal valued analogs). These controlled vocabularies should allow media producers and consumers to more unambiguously express the nature of the content they provide/consume. To view these new terms and vocabularies, visit the following list of terms documents: http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/doc/termlist/ http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/doc/subtype/ http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/doc/variant/ http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/doc/format/ One of our goals for the near future is to make translations of the controlled vocabularies available to the community. If you have the technical knowledge to translate any of these controlled vocabularies into any non-English language, please contact me to talk about how to make that happen. Thanks to the Audubon Core Maintenance Group for its work to make these changes a reality! Steve Baskauf Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener -- 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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