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W3 CSV efforts
by Bob Morris 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page especially see the Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web W3C Working Draft 10 July 2014 : http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-tabular-data-model-20140710/ -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.

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Join us at NCEAS' Open Science Code Fest
by Vieglais, David A. 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Are you a researcher with a coding project that needs some help? Are you developing software for the earth sciences and would like some feedback and collaboration from a diverse group of scientists? If so, check out the ¬Open Science Codefest 2014. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/emails/codefest-promo-email.ht…>. [Open Science Codefest - September 2-4, 2014 - Santa Barbara, CA] Are you a researcher with a coding project that needs some help? Are you developing software for the earth sciences and would like some feedback and collaboration from a diverse group of scientists? Open Science Codefest September 2-4, 2014 Santa Barbara, CA Open Science Codefest will gather researchers from ecology, biodiversity science, and other earth and environmental sciences with computer scientists, software engineers, and developers to collaborate on coding projects of mutual interest. [http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/emails/register.jpg]<http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/> Design. Code. Discuss. Learn more on the Codefest website: http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/ Inspired by hack-a-thons and organized in the participant-driven, unconference style, the Open Science Codefest is for anyone with an interesting problem, solution, or idea that intersects environmental science and computer programming. This is the conference where you will actually get stuff done -- whether that's coding up a new R module, developing an ontology, working on a data repository, creating data visualizations, dreaming up an interactive eco-game, discussing an idea, or any other concrete collaborative goal that interests a group of people. [http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/emails/email-santabarbara.jpg]<http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/> Open Science Codefest 2014 will be held in Santa Barbara on September 2-4, 2014 at the Fess Parker Santa Barbara Hotel. Registration is free. Register at http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest. Suggest a session topic or review proposed sessions in the Open Science Codefest Github project<https://github.com/NCEAS/open-science-codefest/issues?labels=&milestone=&pa…>. To suggest a session, create a "New Issue" and apply the "proposed session" label. Alternatively, email the Codefest team at codefest(a)nceas.ucsb.edu<mailto:codefest@nceas.ucsb.edu>. [http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/emails/share.png]Forward this invite and spread the word about Open Science Codefest 2014. People from a wide variety of disciplines, geographic regions, and skill levels are encouraged to attend! [http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/emails/twitter-logo.png]Follow us on Twitter #OSCodefest<https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23OSCodefest%2C%20OR%20%23oscodefe…> Contact Open Science Codefest at codefest(a)nceas.ucsb.edu<mailto:codefest@nceas.ucsb.edu>[http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/emails/email-footer.png]

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TDWG Standards page out of date about Audubon Core
by Bob Morris 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

(1.) http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ incorrectly claims that AC is still a draft standard. How can this be addressed? (2.) Nowhere (?) on http://www.tdwg.org does tell how to report serious issues like (1.) rather than bothering a mailing list. Bob -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.

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Is http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/history/dwctoabcd/ adopted as a standard?
by Bob Morris 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

(a) http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/history/dwctoabcd/ says it is a TDWG standard. (b) http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ does not list it. (?) Which is right? (Surely the dates in the documents lie in favor (a) being more plausible. -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.

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TAG meeting Sunday 27 October
by greg whitbread 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

To Conveners and TAG members coming to TDWG in Florence, For preliminary discussion, an agenda/outline for the TAG meeting on Sunday. I don't expect that the meeting will necessarily unfold this way - it is just a starting point. Tomorrow, I will find a more appropriate place to put it. greg Grand Mediterraneo 3pm Sunday 27 October TAG at TDWG - Scope of this meeting - Allocated time slot on Thursday - VoMaG report - Informal meetings during the week? TAG terms of reference (context & review) - Charter - Governance - More than a mail list? - Constitution - Documentation - Wiki - Issue management - Update TDWG TAG pages - Reporting A TDWG Architecture - Expression (vision) - (a) Development, interpretation and maintenance of principles for a biodiversity informatics architecture - WG governance, - standards interoperability, - collaboration, - cross group issues and networking - (or a+) Development (reuse) of a TDWG architecture - Building Blocks, - Common language - Domain Model? - How do we make it work? - Simple - Agile - Intentional vs emergent - Technology agnostic - How to test it? - Where do we start? - Status/review of current framework and standards - Existing and developing "Cores" - Plea around basisOfRecord - BCO - The TDWG "ontology" The TAG working group reports - DwC RDF - VoMaG -- Greg Whitbread Australian National Botanic Gardens Australian National Herbarium +61 2 62509482 ghw(a)anbg.gov.au

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JAXB and Simple DwC woes
by Bob Morris 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Under eclipse Kepler Java EE edition, I am using JAXB to generate unmarshalling classes from a local copy of the simple dwc schema tdwg_dwc_simple.xsd That schema and various imports seem to assume that their dependencies are on the local file system, and I ended up checking out the entirety of trunk/2011-10-26/xsd/, which was simpler than chasing down the dependencies one at a time, especially since I am not sure what other aspects of dwc I might later need. Should I feel aggrieved that the dwc schemas assume that their dependencies are in local files? Had they not been, would recent versions of JAXB have come to my rescue automagically? Was there something simpler to do? Thanks Bob -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.

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TDWG 2013: "Semantics for Biodiversity" symposia
by Mark Schildhauer 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

Hello folks, We want to bring to your attention a recently approved TDWG proposal for a set of 3 symposia on the "Semantics for Biodiversity", planned for the upcoming TDWG meeting in Florence, Oct. 28-Nov. 1. Due to the short time frame involved, we want to bring to your immediate attention these special aspects: *Details and instructions about symposia: http://semantics4biodiversity.nceas.ucsb.edu (linked from the TDWG site under the symposium announcement) *Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4bdtdwg2013 (i.e., not the TDWG site) *Accelerated submission deadline" of SEP 4 *Accelerated review process, with acceptance notifications: SEP 11 (as courtesy to those needing approved submissions to attend) We are hoping this "mega-symposium" will bring together at TDWG 2013 many of the exciting and important efforts currently underway in advancing biodiversity semantics. There is also an upcoming opportunity worth noting, viz. a planned special issue of the /Semantic Web Journal/ on "Semantics for Biodiversity": *http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-semantics-biodiversity We anticipate that many of the TDWG contributions could be suitable for elaborating into a full paper submission for this special issue, on which several of the co-organizers of this TDWG effort are also involved as guest editors. These papers are, thankfully, not due until January 31, 2014. Please spread the word! Many thanks for your submissions, and hoping to see you at TDWG 2013! (Sorry for the cross-posting, but we wanted to get the word out broadly...) Sincerely, Mark Schildhauer, John Deck, Ben Adams, Nico Franz, Rob Guralnick, Ramona Walls (on behalf of additional co-organizers: Stan Blum, Steve Baskauf, Bob Morris, Norman Morrison, Evangelos Pafilis, Joel Sachs, Pelin Yilmaz) ==================================== *Semantics for Biodiversity Symposium -- Call for Abstracts *http://semantics4biodiversity.nceas.ucsb.edu <http://semantics4biodiversity.nceas.ucsb.edu/> at TDWG Conference 2013 October 28 - November 1, 2013 - Florence, Italy. *Symposium Description and Scope * This Symposium includes a series of three, 90 minute sessions at TDWG that together constitute a "Semantics for Biodiversity" track, focused on -- Ontologies and formal models Technologies, Reasoning and Annotation methods Interoperability with genomic and ecological semantics These sessions are not parallel tracked and they are placed on separate days to avoid saturation on the topic. Additionally, there will be an initial "primer/tutorial" session of 60 minutes, to provide basic background for TDWG participants about semantic technologies, and how these can help inform biodiversity research. The conveners of this Symposium will be soliciting participation from diverse communities, including those from the biodiversity informatics and standards-development community per se, but also researchers interested in knowledge modeling and semantic application development in the biodiversity sciences, including relevant linkages to investigations in the ecological, genomic and phylogenetic sciences. These thematic areas recommend a stronger-than-usual outreach to the computer science community, as researchers in that community will be particularly attracted by the prospects of reporting their work in a planned (and approved) special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on "Semantics for Biodiversity". Multiple groups of informaticians and technologists are currently developing semantic technologies to enhance discovery, interpretation, and interoperability of biodiversity data, so the upcoming meeting will provide a signal opportunity to present and discuss these activities in a coordinated fashion before perhaps the most relevant community who can inform, critique, and contribute to these efforts. Further, it's anticipated that these sessions will significantly raise awareness among computer scientists and engineers relative to the informatics challenges confronting the biodiversity community, particularly among those developing generalized knowledge representation and reasoning technologies, and machine-learning approaches. *Important Dates * Submission due: September 4, 2013 Acceptance Notification: September 11, 2013 Symposium dates: October 29 - November 1, 2013 *Symposium Format and Submissions* We invite abstract submissions (500 words maximum) for the three sessions, which will be dedicated to short presentations on the topics described in abstracts. We anticipate presentations will be for 20 minutes, with the possibility that these times will change depending on the number of quality submissions. Please visit http://semantics4biodiversity.nceas.ucsb.edu <http://semantics4biodiversity.nceas.ucsb.edu/> for additional information on each of the sessions. Questions for the organizers can be directed to semantics4biodiversity(a)nceas.ucsb.edu <mailto:semantics4biodiversity@nceas.ucsb.edu> Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4bdtdwg2013 -- Mark Schildhauer, Ph.D. 735 State St., Suite 300 Director of Computing, NCEAS Santa Barbara CA USA 93101 Email: schild(a)nceas.ucsb.edu Skype: mark.schildhauer Phone: 805-892-2509 FAX: 805-892-2510 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu

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determination histories: informal survey of specimen management systems
by Bob Morris 15 May '13

15 May '13

For a paper on taxonomic data annotation, I'm trying to get a rough idea of what is the extent of systems in use that can't keep a determination history of the specimens it manages. If this is your circumstance, I would appreciate hearing from you the name of the software and, if you know it, the back end database if there is one. Please answer directly so as not to bother the list. If you've already answered James Macklin asking this question on another list, or if your specimen system does manage a history, please don't bother to reply. Thanks Bob Morris -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.

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joining the TDWG vocabulary management task group
by Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF] 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Apologies for any cross postings. At its recent conference in Beijing, the TDWG Executive/TAG approved the formation of a task group on vocabulary management. It goes by the acronym VoMaG (Vocabulary MAnagement Group). A revised charter (http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/28812/vocabulary-management-group-vo mag-charter-v1), outlining the goals and mode of working of the group is available on the GBIF community site (http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/vocabulary-management/). In the absence of a functioning TDWG site, we intend to use this site as the meeting place for discussions, sharing docs, etc. Please consider joining VoMaG as a core member. You should email me and also register on the GBIF community site. You can log in using OpenID if you have a Google or Yahoo account. Once the core group is established, we can proceed with developing a work programme/timeline to achieve our goals. With regards, Éamonn Ó Tuama ____________________________________________________ Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (eotuama(a)gbif.org), Senior Programme Officer, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480

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Page updated on VoMaG Task Group site
by Steve Baskauf 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I have posted some simmary information on the status of the TDWG Ontologies and Darwin Core on the VoMaG Group's Wiki at http://community.gbif.org/pg/pages/view/29079/a-review-of-the-tdwg-ontologi… There is a link to a discussion thread on the site. This is somewhat untested technology but Éamonn thinks the Group Discussion pages may be the most effective way to conduct discussions for the VoMaG group. Steve -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: VU Station B 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 343-6707 http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu

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