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Call for participation in Audubon Core Task Group on controlled vocabularies for ac:subjectPart and ac:subjectOrientation
by Baskauf, Steven James 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

The TDWG Audubon Core Maintenance Group is exploring the possibility of chartering a Task Group to work on developing controlled vocabularies for ac:subjectPart (http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/subjectPart) and ac:subjectOrientation (http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/subjectOrientation). These controlled vocabularies would facilitate improved searching for particular views of live organism or specimen images, and would eventually become part of some TDWG standard (Audubon Core itself, or a related vocabulary). If you are interested in participating, please email Steve Baskauf at steve.baskauf(a)vanderbilt.edu with some brief information about your affiliation and reasons for interest. Also, please indicate whether you would be interested in participation as a core member (directly involved in the work of developing the vocabularies) or as a general participant (tracking what the group is doing, making suggestions, commenting, etc. but not participating in conference calls or meetings). Please feel free to share this call for participation with others who may not be on this mailing list. 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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us2ts 2019 early registration deadline approaching!
by Hilmar Lapp 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

( Apologies if you have seen this already. Early registration deadline is only days away. The program includes a session on semantics for biodiversity and environmental sciences: http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/program-session-vi.html ) =============================================== U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series March 11-13, 2019 Duke University in Durham, NC http://us2ts.org/ Early Registration Deadline: January 22, 2019 ================================================ The early registration deadline for the 2nd U.S Semantic Technologies Symposium is coming up on January 22, 2019! Register early to get the best registration rates: http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/registration.html We are also excited to announce two exceptional keynote speakers: Jim Hendler<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshendler/> (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Helena Deus<https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenadeus/> (Elsevier)! The program of the symposium is posted online: http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/program.html The detailed program for each session will be published next week. You still have a chance to make a contribution by submitting a lightning talk for one of the two plenary Lightning Talk sessions. The submission for Lightning Talks will be open next week on the US2TS Calls<http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/cfp.html> webpage (http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/cfp.html). The goal of the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium series is to bring together the U.S. Semantic Web community and begin forming such a research network. We achieve this by supporting communication across disciplinary, organizational, and geographical boundaries. The Symposium events provide a forum by which participants can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, develop community standards, and advance their science and education through communication and the sharing of ideas. To this end, the 2019 Symposium will be an informal gathering with plenty of time for discussion and breakout sessions. We encourage anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web, regardless of field, to attend. For all questions please contact the organizers at contact-us2ts2019(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:contact-us2ts2019@googlegroups.com>.

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Call for Registration - U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series (us2ts 2019)
by Hilmar Lapp 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Apologies for cross-posting. ============================================================ U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series US2TS Call for Registration <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us2ts.org_2019_&d=DwMFa…> http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/registration.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us2ts.org_2019_posts_re…> ============================================================ Registration -------------------------------------- Early Registration deadline: Jan 22, 2019. Registration link: http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/registration.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us2ts.org_2019_posts_re…> US2TS -------------------------------------- Semantic Web is an inherently multi-disciplinary field. With an ever-growing dependence on the Web and the continuously increasing importance of large-scale data sharing, integration, and reuse, natural science researchers, geoscience, biology, library science, health care, the humanities, just to name a few, have also taken an increasing interest in the Semantic Web. The U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS) series provide a forum to ease the division between computer science, natural science, and academia/government/industry. The list of program sessions is now available at http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/program.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us2ts.org_2019_posts_pr…> Contact -------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact-us2ts2019(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:contact-us2ts2019@googlegroups.com> Sponsors -------------------------------------- The following sponsors<http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/sponsor.html> have expressed their financial support for US2TS 2019: National Science Foundation<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nsf.gov_&d=DwMFaQ&c=im…>, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sloan.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=…> , Artificial Intelligence Journal<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.journals.elsevier.…> Platinum sponsors: Mobi<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mobi.inovexcorp.com_&d…>, Raytheon BBN<https://www.raytheon.com/ourcompany/bbn>, data.world<http://data.world/> Standard sponsors: IOS Press<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.iospress.nl_subjec…> [image.png] U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series March 11-13, 2019 at Duke University in Durham, NC http://us2ts.org/2019/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us2ts.org_2019_&d=DwMFa…>

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Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core and dcterms:location
by Tim Robertson 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

Hi Kim, (moving our private discussion onto this list) Thanks for the links. As far as I can see the “custom” dublin_core.xsd existed in all DwC releases from 2009 up until 2013-10-23 where it was removed. In that removal, the references to the location were also commented out (I presume meaning the modified XSD was no longer needed) though. For you to still find references to it suggests you might be using an older version of the Darwin Core XSD – is that possible? John / Peter: Do you recall why it was removed? To save searching, the modification to the DC xsd appeared to contain only the following:  <xs:element name="Location" substitutionGroup="dwc:anyClass"> <xs:complexType> <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:element ref="dwc:anyIdentifier"/> <xs:element ref="dwc:anyLocationTerm"/> <xs:element ref="dwc:anyRecordLevelTerm"/> </xs:choice> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> The commented out reference in the DwC xsd:  (see https://dwc.tdwg.org/xml/tdwg_dwc_class_terms.xsd) From: tdwg-content <tdwg-content-bounces(a)lists.tdwg.org> on behalf of Kim Mortimer <K.Mortimer(a)dal.ca> Date: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 at 20.34 To: "tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org" <tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core and dcterms:location To the TDWG mailing list and whomever it may concern, Darwin Core uses a Dublin Core element, dcterms:location, in its definition of classes and elements. However, no current XSD files for Dublin Core (that I can find) define location as an element. For reference, the current Dublin Core XSD files that I am familiar with are available at http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/ Given that dcterms:location is therefore an undefined element, the Darwin Core XML is invalid. This is important to me, and my employer MERIDIAN, because we are implementing Darwin Core in a GeoNetwork metadata schema plugin for our repository. To allow other documents to be validated against our schema within GeoNetwork, the entire plugin XML (which for us includes the Darwin Core XML) must be valid. I previously sent an email about this in September but did not receive any useful advice at the time. Development on our metadata repository has progressed without this element since then, as we have been tracking down other errors in GeoNetwork, but this is the current 'blocking' problem for us. The Darwin Core XSD files reference a dublin_core.xsd in their comments, which is said to contain dcterms:location. My best guess at what this refers to is https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/2011-10-26/xsd/dublin_core.xsd - which is from a previous version of Darwin Core, and appears to be a custom version of http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2008/02/11/dcterms.xsd - so it unclear whether this is correct or not. Given that TDWG is responsible for Darwin Core, I am hopeful that someone will have a tip or solution. My alternative is to define dcterms:location myself as a custom insertion into Dublin Core, but based on the comments in Darwin Core files I believe some suitable XSD must exist. Thank you very much for your time, Kim Mortimer [mage removed by sender. MERIDIAN on blue circle containing many numbers,] Kim Mortimer Data Manager MERIDIAN - Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network Institute for Big Data Analytics, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Dalhousie University p: + 1 902 494 1812 m: +1 902 880 1863 a: 6050 University Ave, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada w: https://meridian.cs.dal.ca e: k.mortimer(a)dal.ca<mailto:k.mortimer@dal.ca>

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Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core and dcterms:location
by Kim Mortimer 12 Dec '18

12 Dec '18

To the TDWG mailing list and whomever it may concern, Darwin Core uses a Dublin Core element, dcterms:location, in its definition of classes and elements. However, no current XSD files for Dublin Core (that I can find) define location as an element. For reference, the current Dublin Core XSD files that I am familiar with are available at http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/ Given that dcterms:location is therefore an undefined element, the Darwin Core XML is invalid. This is important to me, and my employer MERIDIAN, because we are implementing Darwin Core in a GeoNetwork metadata schema plugin for our repository. To allow other documents to be validated against our schema within GeoNetwork, the entire plugin XML (which for us includes the Darwin Core XML) must be valid. I previously sent an email about this in September but did not receive any useful advice at the time. Development on our metadata repository has progressed without this element since then, as we have been tracking down other errors in GeoNetwork, but this is the current 'blocking' problem for us. The Darwin Core XSD files reference a dublin_core.xsd in their comments, which is said to contain dcterms:location. My best guess at what this refers to is https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/2011-10-26/xsd/dublin_core.xsd - which is from a previous version of Darwin Core, and appears to be a custom version of http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2008/02/11/dcterms.xsd - so it unclear whether this is correct or not. Given that TDWG is responsible for Darwin Core, I am hopeful that someone will have a tip or solution. My alternative is to define dcterms:location myself as a custom insertion into Dublin Core, but based on the comments in Darwin Core files I believe some suitable XSD must exist. Thank you very much for your time, Kim Mortimer [MERIDIAN on blue circle containing many numbers, with an orange wave pulse to the right.] Kim Mortimer Data Manager MERIDIAN - Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network Institute for Big Data Analytics, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Dalhousie University p: + 1 902 494 1812 m: +1 902 880 1863 a: 6050 University Ave, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada w: https://meridian.cs.dal.ca e: k.mortimer(a)dal.ca<mailto:k.mortimer@dal.ca>

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I am seeking speakers for a proposed Biodiversity Next symposium
by Simpson, Annie 06 Dec '18

06 Dec '18

Hello, TDWG list members, I've submitted the following abstract to Biodiversity Next and would like to know if any of you would like to give a talk? I've requested a 90-minute slot. If you are interested, please email me with your name, affiliation, title, and 300 word (or less) abstract, and we will see where this goes. How can specialized databases integrate information and work better together? Is following Darwin Core enough? Invasive species databases and other specialized biodiversity information systems are being called more and more to share their information with one another (Zeller et al. 2005; Holdren 2013). Because of differences in data content and database purpose, much information from smaller datasets can be lost during the integration process into larger databases such as BISON, iDigBio, GBIF, and others (Costello et al. 2013). The effort required for cross-walking data fields and for modifying database structure to accommodate new information is significant (Diepenbroek et al. 2014). Darwin Core extensions have been, and continue to be, created to facilitate the sharing of specialized datasets (Byrd 2018). However, following the guidelines set out in these extensions can be insufficient when their structure leans toward the flexible vs. requiring the use of controlled terms. Participants in this symposium will be encouraged to share examples -- both challenges and successes -- they have encountered during their efforts to combine specialized datasets. - Byrd C (2018) Adaptation of Darwin Core Standards and Development of New Standards for Geologic Specimens. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e25929. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25929 - Costello MJ, Michener MK, Gahegan M, Zhang ZQ, Bourne PE (2013) Biodiversity data should be published, cited, and peer reviewed. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.002 - Diepenbroek M, Glöckner FO, Grobe P, Güntsch A, Huber R, König-Ries B, Kostadinov I, Nieschulze J, Seeger B, Tolksdorf R, Triebel D, (2014) Towards an integrated biodiversity and ecological research data management and archiving platform: the German federation for the curation of biological data (GFBio). In: Plödereder E, Grunske L, Schneider E, Ull, D (Eds.), Informatik 2014. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. p1711-1721. https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/2782 - Holdren JP (2013) Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research. Office of Science and Technology Policy Memorandum, United States Government, Washington, DC. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/os… - Zeller D, Froese R, and Paulya D (2005) On losing and recovering fisheries and marine science data. Marine Policy 29(1):69-73. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X04000193 *Annie Simpson, biologist & information scientist* asimpson(a)usgs.gov +1 703 648 4281 desk http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8338-5134 *BISON project (http://bison.usgs.gov <http://bison.usgs.gov>)* EcoScience Synthesis Branch *Science Analytics and Synthesis Program* *U.S. Geological Survey, MS 30212201 Sunrise Valley DriveReston, Virginia 20192*

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Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core classes and dcterms:location
by Tim Robertson 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Hi Kim I’d expect the following: DC terms: http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/2008/02/11/dcterms.xsd DC elements: http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/qdc/dc.xsd Where are you finding your Darwin Core xsd please? I hope this helps, Tim From: tdwg-content <tdwg-content-bounces(a)lists.tdwg.org> on behalf of Kim Mortimer <K.Mortimer(a)dal.ca> Date: Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 21.54 To: "tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org" <tdwg-content(a)lists.tdwg.org> Subject: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core classes and dcterms:location Hi there, I am working on a profile of Darwin Core for a metadata repository, and am trying to add mandatory elements to the location class. However, because it is a Dublin Core class, the Darwin Core xsd points me to a file titled "dublin_core.xsd". I cannot seem to find this file, despite digging through what I can find of available Dublin Core xsd files. Although I'm not the most technical, I also believe this will be necessary for adding these changes to our repository (based on GeoNetwork). I was wondering whether someone could send this file to me or otherwise point me in the correct direction? Thanks very much, Kim Mortimer [mage removed by sender. MERIDIAN on blue circle containing many numbers,] Kim Mortimer Data Manager MERIDIAN - Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network Institute for Big Data Analytics, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Dalhousie University p: + 1 902 494 1812 m: +1 902 880 1863 a: 6050 University Ave, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada w: https://meridian.cs.dal.ca e: k.mortimer(a)dal.ca<mailto:k.mortimer@dal.ca>

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Darwin Core classes and dcterms:location
by Kim Mortimer 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi there, I am working on a profile of Darwin Core for a metadata repository, and am trying to add mandatory elements to the location class. However, because it is a Dublin Core class, the Darwin Core xsd points me to a file titled "dublin_core.xsd". I cannot seem to find this file, despite digging through what I can find of available Dublin Core xsd files. Although I'm not the most technical, I also believe this will be necessary for adding these changes to our repository (based on GeoNetwork). I was wondering whether someone could send this file to me or otherwise point me in the correct direction? Thanks very much, Kim Mortimer [MERIDIAN on blue circle containing many numbers, with an orange wave pulse to the right.] Kim Mortimer Data Manager MERIDIAN - Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network Institute for Big Data Analytics, Faculty of Computer Sciences, Dalhousie University p: + 1 902 494 1812 m: +1 902 880 1863 a: 6050 University Ave, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada w: https://meridian.cs.dal.ca e: k.mortimer(a)dal.ca<mailto:k.mortimer@dal.ca>

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Questionnaires: Integrating Changes into Collections Databases: Challenges and Opportunities
by Deborah Paul 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

*Surveys: Integrating Changes into Collections Databases: Challenges and Opportunities* The purpose of these surveys are to gather information from the collections community regarding your experience incorporating changes into your local collections databases. Our goals are to compile and sharefindings at /SPNHC-TDWG 2018/ <https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26003>//as part of the SPNHC symposium <https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26003>: Challenges for Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback: synthesizing the community experience. Our interests are in the skills, processes, and resources needed (or missing) when collections staff work to integrate data from aggregators and/or crowd-sourced transcriptions back into their local databases. We plan to share the critical information collected in these surveys to help current and future programs design and implement improved data integration and data quality efforts.Many changes might need to be integrated into collection databases. These two surveys focus on : * data quality feedback suggestions from aggregators, and * information provided by crowdsourcing efforts (e.g., online transcription platforms), Please take either questionnaire, or both, as is appropriate. Each survey is estimated to take a maximum of 5 to 10 minutes. /Results will be shared at //SPNHC-TDWG 2018/ <https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26003>/and with you as well if you provide contact information. / Survey 1: Integrating Data Quality Feedback from Aggregators into Collection Databases http://bit.ly/integrateDQ Survey 2: Integrating Crowdsourced Data into Collection Databases http://bit.ly/integrateCrowdData Thanks very much.In anticipation, Deb Paul (iDigBio) & Nicole Fisher (CSIRO) /please excuse cross-postings - aiming for worldwide reach - please share!/ *Nicole Fisher* Digital Collections and Informatics National Research Collections Australia (NRCA) CSIRO *E*nicole.fisher(a)csiro.au <mailto:nicole.fisher@csiro.au> *T*+61 2 6246 4261 *M*+61 (0) 475 972 827 Address : GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.csiro.au_en_Researc…> -- -- 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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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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