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
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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
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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: mailto:Donald.Hobern@csiro.au Donald.Hobern@csiro.au
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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_Hackatho... https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackatho n
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 mailto:Donald.Hobern@csiro.au
________________________________
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Hi guys,
As another example of these type of events, the OSGeo mob (Open Source GIS software) have run 'code sprints' for quite some time around their conferences. The next OSGeo conference, FOSS4G, is being held in Sydney in October of this year, and some of my team are going along to participate. I'm happy to get the guys to give a brief description of how that was organized and how it went, although timing wise it's not far from the TDWG 2009 conference. I might be able to get the FOSS4G organizers in Sydney to give us some info on how they organize it if you guys think it's worthwhile.
Now I suppose I better start getting distracted by submitted standards too...
Piers
From: tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Blum, Stan Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 3:29 PM To: Lee Belbin; Kevin Richards; Technical Architecture Group mailing list Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009
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_Hack athon https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hac kathon
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 mailto:Donald.Hobern@csiro.au
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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_Hackatho...
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
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I wasn't aware that Roger is planning to go. I am really happy to have Hilmar participating in TDWG, but I'm also glad to see that Roger will be there with his longer experience of TDWG and as someone who is fully immersed in biodiversity and systematics.
I wish I could go myself, but I don't think it's possible.
-Stan
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From: Greg Whitbread [mailto:ghw@anbg.gov.au] Sent: Tue 2009-02-17 11:08 PM To: Blum, Stan Cc: Lee Belbin; Kevin Richards; Technical Architecture Group mailing list Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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_Hackatho...
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
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Email: Donald.Hobern@csiro.au
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Breaking 2 minute rule but ... Some authoritative comment on NeXML and CDAO re SDD and TDWG ontology anyone?
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_Hackatho...
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
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On 18 Feb 2009, at 07:22, Greg Whitbread wrote:
Some authoritative comment on NeXML and CDAO re SDD and TDWG ontology anyone?
The main reason I am going is to be able to give some authoritative comment on the relationships of all these things so maybe ask me again a the end of March!
All the best,
Roger
I am very sad that we never managed to get into a deeper discussion with the Nexus community.
I met Wayne Maddison once and presented SDD (which tried to include NEXUS in the analysis, and contains several aspects specifically for phylogenetics), but I can understand that given their rather separate phylogenetic group, they find it easier to build very closely on the existing Nexus rather than searching for a combined view of DELTA and taxonomic descriptions.
If there is any chance getting involved I might try to invest time into it, but Hilmar Lapps email was the first time I heard about NexML being at such a stage at all. I just do not cope following with all the development.
Gregor
2009/2/18 Roger Hyam rogerhyam@mac.com:
On 18 Feb 2009, at 07:22, Greg Whitbread wrote:
Some authoritative comment on NeXML and CDAO re SDD and TDWG ontology anyone?
The main reason I am going is to be able to give some authoritative comment on the relationships of all these things so maybe ask me again a the end of March!
All the best,
Roger
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