Hi all!
It's been a minute since the days of weekly meetings, but now that we're into the second half of the year I thought it might be time to revisit the Humboldt extension manuscrip https://docs.google.com/document/d/171Blq1BDza_psrIQtBH-USIBzRuJAz-KQ4vS-xYnG3M/edit?usp=sharingt. We haven't made much progress since the Task Group disbanded, and I know everyone is busy with other commitments, but I think it would be nice if we could have a working draft ready to submit for review before the end of the year (and a solid working draft by TDWG would be amazing). Does that sound feasible to everyone?
For anyone interested in taking part in the writing, I'm happy to organize a quick zoom planning session to get back into the groove of things -- just give me an idea of your availability for the near future. A simple agenda could include:
- confirming our target journal (Ecography) so as to be able to research and follow author guidelines from the start - identify references for citation - draft a working outline with figure concepts - assign sections to people for initial drafting
On a totally different topic, I did not forget that I was working on a GBIF version of the Humboldt guide. Over the recent months, that concept has morphed into a more general guide for mapping survey and monitoring data as DwC Event core including use of the Humboldt extension. The aim is to have it general enough that ecologists and data publishers outside the DwC and GBIF community can easily understand why and what to do in standardizing their data with DwC. it's still in progress, but I will share it later this summer for comments.
I hope everyone is doing well! Hope to hear from you soon.
Best, Kate