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 (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
that was held in February and March to converge the ideas behind two
related but distinct concepts:
- the Digital
Specimen, proposed by the Europe-based Distributed System of
Scientific Collections (DiSSCo),
- and the Extended
Specimen, 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 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.
- 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,
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.
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