Dear all
Just a reminder about the TDWG MIDS Task Group meeting today. We have been organising the work needed for the ratification of MIDS, deciding on some milestones and creating a schedule for some of the work. This are all being shared in the GitHub. Ideally, we will be using the MIDS Project part of the GitHub for this stage of working, everyone should now have access to this: https://github.com/orgs/tdwg/projects/4.
The Tasks that are currently in here are also visible in the Issues part of the GitHub: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues.
We will plan to use the first 30 minutes to discuss any issues, etc, and the second 30 minutes to tackle some of the work needed. As part of the plan to organise the work needed, we can prepare some agendas for future meetings so that there is a clearer focus for each meeting. Please let us know if there are key tasks that you would like us to look at on a particular week.
This week (depending on people present) we will be looking at the following Issues:
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Check access to MIDS Project: https://github.com/orgs/tdwg/projects/4/views/1
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Informative work
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Add information to Wiki: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/wiki
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Information mainly coming from Specification Development document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mc9sf8X8l8iSc-GO2ZFmgCoOiJNxKRhYeGq5OFm…
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Normative work
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MIDS Calculator/Checker functionality
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Generalise functionality in the MIDS calculator to handle any DWCA file #92 https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/92
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MIDS Checker - Create conditional calculations for disciplines #97 https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/97
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Elspeth
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Dear all
Just a reminder about the TDWG MIDS Task Group meeting today. We will aim to organise the work needed for the ratification of MIDS, deciding on some milestones and creating a schedule for some of the work. This will all be shared in the GitHub. Ideally, we will be using the MIDS Project part of the GitHub for this stage of working, but we have not yet been able to give everyone access to this: https://github.com/orgs/tdwg/projects/4.
However, the Tasks that are currently in here are also visible in the Issues part of the GitHub: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues.
We will plan to use the first 30 minutes to discuss any issues, etc, and the second 30 minutes to tackle some of the work needed. As part of the plan to organise the work needed, we can prepare some agendas for future meetings so that there is a clearer focus for each meeting. Please let us know if there are key tasks that you would like us to look at on a particular week.
Best wishes
Elspeth
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Dear all
Just a reminder that we will be meeting today at the usual time of 14:00 UTC with the aim to get the information elements in place.
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We have submitted a presentation for the TDWG/SPNHC conference which will be part of the following symposium https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/sessions/#sym17, organised by Wouter and Anton.
It would be good to also consider additional publications that we should be considering for MIDS to raise awareness.
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Hi all,
As trailed in a previous meeting, I've finished putting together and deploying a little web app which uses the GBIF API to calculate MIDS scores. You can access it here: https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc and the source is here: https://github.com/naturalhistorymuseum/gamc.
From the home page just search and select your GBIF occurrence dataset, the app then runs some calculations by querying the GBIF API a few (~25) times, and then you'll see a couple of charts showing your dataset's record counts against the 4 MIDS levels as well as a more detailed breakdown of record counts by MIDS element. For example, here's the NHM London's breakdown<https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/dashboard/7e380070-f762-11e1-a4…>.
For more info about how it works, check out the about page: https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/about. Specifically of interest to this group will be the how does it work<https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/about#how-does-it-work> section and the caveats<https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/gamc/about#caveats>.
Any and all feedback welcome, including suggestions for changes (particularly around the mapping where we are somewhat limited, again see the caveats). The primary goal of this tool at the moment is to help people understand and explore their own MIDS scores, but when GBIF implement MIDS in their systems I fully expect it to become redundant. Additionally, it may be worth exploring a GeoCASe API based version of this too (and it would be pretty trivial to add I expect), though this may have limited usefulness given the discussion we had in the last meeting about the general lack of availability of datasets that cover all earth science disciplines.
All the best,
Josh
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For information, we received this very positive e-mail from Cecilie confirming GBIF support for MIDS and interest in implementation.
Elspeth
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From: Cecilie Svenningsen <csvenningsen(a)gbif.org<mailto:csvenningsen@gbif.org>>
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To: Elspeth Haston <EHaston(a)rbge.org.uk<mailto:EHaston@rbge.org.uk>>
Cc: Tim Robertson <trobertson(a)gbif.org<mailto:trobertson@gbif.org>>; Marie Grosjean <mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>>
Subject: MIDS in GBIF - follow-up after TAG meeting
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Dear Elspeth,
Thank you for the presentation on the MIDS progress at the TDWG Technical Architecture Group meeting last week.
I wanted to follow up with you because you mentioned that GBIF had declared interest in implementing MIDS when ready, but I was not aware of the discussions at the time of the meeting and could not provide any feedback. I have now talked with people in the Secretariat who are more familiar with MIDS (cc in this email) and can confirm that GBIF would be interested in including MIDS to support community requests for the implementation. Specifically, we think it could be of value to implement in GRSciColl at the collection level. But before we can investigate implementing MIDS, we want to see a finalized specification of the calculation rules in place, that will be maintained externally to GBIF, and we hope TDWG can support those efforts.
I understand you will have some follow-up discussions with TDWG after the meeting, but can I ask what your impressions are of how the standardization process in TDWG is going for the MIDS task group outputs?
Kind regards
Cecilie
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Dear all
Just a reminder that we will be meeting today at the usual time of 14:00 UTC (about 15 minutes). We will aim to talk through the recent meeting with the TDWG TAG to determine the options for MIDS in light of the feedback.
Hope to see you there.
Best wishes
Elspeth
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