Hi all, I've put some time into thinking about how to this table could be translated into the form required for a controlled vocabulary that's part of a TDWG standard (i.e. SKOS). I've put some material up on GitHub at https://github.com/baskaufs/msc/tree/master/survey_cv . If I could have some time at the meeting to talk about this, it might inform subsequent discussion.

The point of using SKOS is to facilitate building of multilingual applications that guide a human user to select the correct concept (in this case, type of survey) from possible options. The end result is either direct input into the application (in the form of a unique identifier for the concept) or providing the user with the correct controlled value string to put in a table or spreadsheet. The JSON that encodes the SKOS is not seen by end users -- it is made available to application developers to develop the applications. Providing this JSON to developers does not preclude also making the data available in tabular form.

The key bits are:

* a diagram https://github.com/baskaufs/msc/blob/master/survey_cv/diagram.jpg * a machine-readable JSON-LD file that encodes the hierarchical relationships in the diagram and provides multilingual labels and definitions https://github.com/baskaufs/msc/blob/master/survey_cv/survey.json * modifications to the existing table needed to generate the JSON

There's also a Jupyter notebook that I used to generate the JSON from the table, but it isn't necessary to look at that.

Missing from here are possible concept collections that would also be encoded in JSON and used to screen the concepts. (see https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/#seccollections for background.) The concept collections group the concepts by categories -- on a web form they could be represented by radio buttons to be selected by users to screen concepts that are appropriate for a certain category (animals, for example).

More on this tomorrow. Steve

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From: tdwg-humboldt tdwg-humboldt-bounces@lists.tdwg.org on behalf of "Brenton, Peter (NCMI, Black Mountain)" Peter.Brenton@csiro.au Reply-To: Humboldt Core TG tdwg-humboldt@lists.tdwg.org Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 2:18 PM To: Humboldt Core TG tdwg-humboldt@lists.tdwg.org, rdstevenson10 rdstevenson10@gmail.com Subject: Re: [tdwg-humboldt] Humboldt Core Task Group Meeting Wed 6 Jan 8am EST

Hi team,

I have also been working on the list of methods in this doc - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ojS1gRk5MJZ5OWYuaXaGt0oFn3J-JPvpHT-0...https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1ojS1gRk5MJZ5OWYuaXaGt0oFn3J-JPvpHT-0JkUNwZA%2Fedit%23gid%3D0&data=04%7C01%7Csteve.baskauf%40vanderbilt.edu%7C1cfa97360a5a44b6ec1108d8b1b70750%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637454746959594127%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=74GTQ7rl7581TgZoWAYshgsuUmokY%2FZ3jVnR%2FmPIGAI%3D&reserved=0.

* There are still plenty of gaps in it and I’d like to particularly discuss the taxonomy of the nested structure for classifying and naming methods (first 4 columns). The first 3 columns should have controlled vocabularies and it would be good to also discuss these. * I have also taken up Tim’s suggestion to parse out effort type into separate columns (F – I) and also added column K, which I think will be useful as a search/filter parameter. These too should have controlled vocabularies which we should discuss.

Please feel free to jump in and help fill out the gaps in the table.

Best,

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From: tdwg-humboldt tdwg-humboldt-bounces@lists.tdwg.org On Behalf Of Yanina Sica Sent: Wednesday, 6 January 2021 4:18 AM To: tdwg-humboldt@lists.tdwg.org Subject: [tdwg-humboldt] Humboldt Core Task Group Meeting Wed 6 Jan 8am EST

Hi all!

I hope 2021 brought happiness and health to all of you!

I am sorry for sending this email so close to the meeting time but I am still a bit slow in this first week of the year!

The plan was to meet (Wed 6 Jan) to talk about the work done by John and Tim and discuss next steps.

This is the link for the meeting tomorrow: https://yale.zoom.us/j/96750659891https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyale.zoom.us%2Fj%2F96750659891&data=04%7C01%7Csteve.baskauf%40vanderbilt.edu%7C1cfa97360a5a44b6ec1108d8b1b70750%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637454746959604117%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=zB%2BS97syQuf4YKJ%2F2oV9Kc9p8uSr4m6U1%2BukA%2F53%2FIo%3D&reserved=0

Hope you can make it, All the best!

Yanina V. Sica, PhD Data Manager | Map of Life Yale University pronouns: she/her/hers