You can't go yourself Stan? You're a lot closer to the
action.
I notice that Roger is listed as participant and Hilmar Lapp as
member
of the organizing committee so we do have a couple of
candidates
already.
greg
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:28, Blum,
Stan wrote:
> Kevin et al,
>
> Here is another event
that TDWG should be aware of -- the NESCent
> sponsored hackathon on
phylogenetic (database) interoperability.
> https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackathon
>
>
It would be nice if TDWG had someone there at least to observe, in
>
particular if this event could serve as a model for our own
>
hackathons.
>
> -Stan
>
>
______________________________________________________________________
>
From: tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org on behalf of Lee Belbin
> Sent: Tue
2009-02-17 10:23 PM
> To: 'Kevin Richards'; 'Technical Architecture Group
mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in
2009
>
>
>
> Hi
Kevin
>
>
>
> Sorry for the delay in responding.
Been distracted with submitted
> standards (a nice
distraction).
>
>
>
> The TAG should act as the
‘glue’ between the other TDWG groups. Is the
> key issue therefore the
vocabularies/ ontology?
>
>
>
> I like the idea of
a bunch of weasels. It would seem a good idea for
> the TAG to disseminate
a statement of intent as soon as your strategy
> crystallizes. This would
(hopefully) encourage the groups to aim in a
> productive
direction.
>
>
>
> I’m still working on recruiting
members of the Programme Committee.
> They should have a significant input
to the meeting. They will be the
> ones making a call to Conveners for
group activities including
> involvement across the
themes.
>
>
>
>
Lee
>
>
>
> Lee Belbin
>
> TDWG
Secretariat
>
>
>
>
> From:
tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org
> [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org]
On Behalf Of Kevin Richards
> Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 7:41
PM
> To: Technical Architecture Group mailing list
> Subject:
[tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009
>
>
>
>
> Hello
fellow TAGers,
>
>
>
>
>
> I like the
sound of Donald's mention of a "hackathon". If anyone else
> is keen
for such a thing at TDWG 2009, then let me
know.
>
>
>
>
>
> Some ideas that we
could work on:
>
>
> - Tapir tools, services,
enhancements
>
>
> - LSID tools, services,
enhancements
>
>
> - LSID vocabulary work - elaboration of the
vocabs, tools for working
> with the vocabs, ?
>
>
> -
mash ups
>
>
> - semantic web integration with tdwg
standards/tools
>
>
>
>
>
> Also had a
few thoughts about how TAG ought to influence the the other
> sub groups
and their discussions.
>
>
>
>
>
> A
snippet from an email to
Doanld...
>
>
>
>
>
> "I do like the
idea of concentrating more on the developing standards
>
etc.
>
>
> I feel we will have to be careful though not
to end up with different
> groups heading different directions, or
re-inventing wheels, because
> they are in separate discussions/sub
groups. One of the main concerns
> here is subgroups creating models
for data types that have been done
> elsewhere - ie the "reuse" of
existing schemas issue. I do have a
> cunning plan though that may
help (so cunning you could put a tail on
> it and call it a weasel
:)). As this "reuse" issue is really a major
> concern of the TAG
group, we could have members of the TAG group
> spreading themselves
through the different discussion, making sure
> they are heading the same
direction as other groups and reusing
> models, etc, where
appropriate. It may help to have a short TAG "plan
> of attack"
meeting before the main meeting to work out strategies for
>
this??"
>
>
>
>
>
> Any
thoughts?
>
>
>
>
>
>
Kevin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
______________________________________________________________________
>
>
From: tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On
>
Behalf Of Donald.Hobern@csiro.au [Donald.Hobern@csiro.au]
> Sent: Friday,
13 February 2009 5:27 p.m.
> To: tdwg@lists.tdwg.org
> Subject:
[tdwg] TDWG in 2009
>
>
> Dear TDWG Members and
Friends,
>
> TDWG 2009 will be help in Montpellier France from
November 9-13. I
> thought I would take this opportunity to outline the
activities I see
> as important for TDWG this year leading up to the
conference this
> November. There are many important things for us to be
doing in the
> lead up to the meeting.
>
> Consolidation of
past work
>
> We have made much progress over the last few years in
reworking our
> standards for greater interoperability. The LSID work and
the
> associated LSID vocabularies have been a major part of this.
These
> changes make it much easier to reuse TDWG standards with
different
> technologies, to embed TDWG data elements in other structures,
and to
> map other data formats into forms which can be interpreted
as
> TDWG-compliant data. However this work is still incomplete. We need
to
> formalise the vocabularies as an agreed high-level ontology or
data
> model to support cross-project data integration. Many of our
projects
> are awaiting a clear lead in this area. Please contact me if
you are
> interested in leading some of this work or contributing to
the
> discussion.
>
> One obvious example of the importance of
this work comes from Annie
> Simpson's comments during her presentation in
Perth. It should not be
> difficult for a group like GISIN to adopt TDWG
standards and be able
> quickly to build a network to share data using
those standards. I
> reiterate the challenge for us to solve this problem
this year, using
> GISIN's requirements as a benchmark.
>
> It
is encouraging to see that NCD nears the end of its public review
> and
that TAPIR has just been submitted to the TDWG standards track. It
> would
appear that the submission of Darwin Core is not far off either.
> Please
help to ensure that we end up with effective standards that can
> be
easily adopted by a wide audience.
>
> e-Biosphere
2009
>
> The e-Biosphere 2009 conference (http://www.e-biosphere09.org/)
will
> take place in London in June. This goals of this conference are
to:
>
> * Present and discuss
the extraordinary progress made
in
> Biodiversity
Informatics over the past
decade,
> * Provide participants
with demonstrations of
current
> capabilities in
this field, and
> * Bring
stakeholders together to create a roadmap for the
next
>
decade.
>
>
> The main meeting (1-3 June) has a programme of
invited speakers who
> will provide an overview of what is happening in
biodiversity
> informatics and promote a vision for the importance of this
work.
> These sessions will address the first and second of the goals
above.
> At the end of the week, there will be a smaller two-day workshop
with
> representatives from a range of biodiversity informatics
projects
> discussing synergies and efficient collaboration (the third
goal).
>
> e-Biosphere is significant to TDWG for several
reasons:
>
> 1. The opening session on
2 June will present the benefits
of
> data standards and
integration, and we expect that many of
the
> other sessions will
directly or indirectly highlight
TDWG
> work. We are also
organising a booth to publicise the work
of
> TDWG and hope that
this will be an opportunity to
demonstrate
> the value of
our role to a wider audience.
> 2. The
e-Biosphere organisers have established an
"Online
> Conference
Community" (http://forum.e-biosphere09.org/)
to
> engage the wider
community in pre-conference discussions.
One
> of the categories
(to be added soon) will be on the role
of
> standards and tools
in biodiversity informatics. We
encourage
> TDWG members
to contribute to this and to the other
conference
>
discussions.
> 3. TDWG will be
represented in the roadmap discussions on
4-5
> June. We trust
that this session will help us all to
clarify
> priorities for
the next few years and will feed
into
> discussions at TDWG
2009 and beyond.
>
>
> TDWG
2009
>
>
>
>
>
> In recent years TDWG
conferences have moved away from their earlier
> format, with significant
emphasis on working group meetings, to become
> more of a reporting
conference on the activities of TDWG-related
> projects. This has
had some benefits, but has also in some ways
> weakened the organisation
by reducing our focus on the core activity
> of developing and promoting
standards. The vitality of our working
> groups in large measure
depends on the conference providing a focus
> for their
activity.
>
>
>
>
>
> For this reason,
TDWG 2009 will be structured differently. Monday and
> Friday of the
conference have been reserved for plenary sessions, but
> for the rest of
the conference we plan to run three parallel (and, I
> hope, intersecting)
streams of activities. One of these will be on
> the use of
biodiversity informatics to support agriculture and crop
>
diversity. Another stream will be for TDWG to initiate activity in
>
response to the roadmap developed at e-Biosphere 2009. The third
>
stream is still be be selected. Each stream will include a range
of
> activities (e.g. symposia, seminars, task group sessions,
hackathons)
> planned to address key issues and to result in real
deliverables to
> progress biodiversity informatics in the
area.
>
>
>
>
>
> We are establishing
a Program Committee to plan the conference in
> detail and will keep you
informed of progress.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best
wishes,
>
>
>
>
>
>
Donald
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of
> Living Australia
>
> CSIRO
Entomology, GPO Box 1700,
> Canberra, ACT 2601
>
> Phone: (02)
62464352 Mobile:
> 0437990208
>
> Email:
Donald.Hobern@csiro.au
>
> Web: http://www.ala.org.au/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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>
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