Hi TDWG'ers,

Darwin Core (DwC) Hour #4 is almost here: Evolution of DwC Terms and Extensions - two extant examples for community input. Go Here for Webinar Details and Meeting Link: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-evolution-darwin-core-terms...

ABSTRACT. Darwin Core Hour #4 shifts focus to understanding how the DwC standard terms and extensions evolve. Community input and implementation drive development of DwC. For this webinar, we selected dwc:preparations, dwc:occurrenceStatus, and dwc:establishmentMeans to show the broader community how the process works. In this way, we highlight the need for outside input - from those using TDWG standards to share biodiversity data. Two presenters, Andrew Bentley and Quentin Groom, invite you to join them and bring your TDWG expertise and insights to current issues surrounding these terms. Introduction by John Wieczorek.

Please bring or submit questions for open discussions in each webinar: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz

When: Tuesday 2 May 2017 5 PM CEST, 11 AM EDT, 10 AM CDT, 3 PM UTC Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room Please expect this DwC Hour to be 1.5 hours.

EXTRAs.

1. Explore the Darwin Core Questions & Answers wiki! https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki - where all Darwin Core Hour (DwC) materials can be found. 2. See which of your questions have been asked and answered so far https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues 3. Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a webinar on your darwin core topic: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz 4. Here's a list of terms for which DwC recommends use of a controlled vocabulary - note many are in the Location class. https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies 5. See what's inside some of the DwC fields that suggest using a controlled vocabulary (data from GBIF, iDigBio, VertNet, and soon ALA): https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data 6. Future DwC Hour webinars coming up feature discussions about the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and Darwin Core, and the locality terms and sharing georeferenced locality data.

See you soon!

Happy Darwin Core and Data Quality, :-) Deb, et al from the iDigBio Data Mgmt Interest Group and the Darwin Core Hour Team (please kindly excuse cross-postings!) Webinar series brought to you by the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI). We welcome input for this series from everyone worldwide. We plan to make this happen 1x month. We use Adobe Connect for our webinars. See https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing for hints on best experience (hint: use headsets!)