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2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv)
by Güntsch, Anton 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Dear All, (apologies for cross-posting). The Semantics for Biodiversity workshop may be of interest to TDWG members. Best wishes, Anton -- Anton Güntsch Freie Universität Berlin Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Research and Development Group Biodiversity Informatics Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 (30) 83850-166 Email: a.guentsch(a)bgbm.org<mailto:a.guentsch@bgbm.org> Web: http://www.bgbm.org/guentsch/ Skype: guentsch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv) http://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/s4biodiv2017/ co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 Workshop Description --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biodiversity research aims at comprehending the totality and variability of organisms, their morphology, genetics, life history, habitats and geographical ranges, it is usually used to refer to biological diversity at three levels: genetics, species, and ecology. Biodiversity is an outstanding domain that deals with heterogeneous datasets and concepts generated from a large number of disciplines in order to build a coherent picture of the extend of life on earth. The presence of such a myriad of data resources makes integrative biodiversity increasingly important in the life sciences research. However, it is severely strangled by the way data and information are made available. The Semantic Web approach enhances data exchange, discovery, and integration by providing common formats to achieve a formalized conceptual environment. This workshop aims to bring together computer scientists and biologists, working on Semantic Web approaches for biodiversity and related areas such as agriculture or agro-ecology. The goal is to exchange experiences, build a state of the art of realizations and challenges and reuse and adapt solutions that have been proposed in other domains. The workshop focuses on presenting challenging issues and solutions for the design of high quality biodiversity information systems based on Semantic Web techniques. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts due: July 14th, 2017 Workshop papers due: July 21st, 2017 Notification of acceptance: August 24th, 2017 Camera ready version: September 7th, 2017 Workshops held: October 22nd, 2017 Topics and application domains --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome topics related to the application and development of semantic technologies to support research in the biodiversity domain and related areas. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: + Applications of Semantic Web technologies for biodiversity + Semantic data integration + Development and design of domain specific ontologies + Ontology-based applications + Semantic annotation of biodiversity data + Semantic approaches for the discovery of biodiversity data + Semantic support for scientific workflows + Data provenance and reproducibility + Data lifecycle management + Knowledge extraction and text mining + Ontology learning + Standards for biodiversity Data + Linked Open biodiversity Data + Ontology development for biodiversity + Semantic representation of biodiversity data + Interoperability of biodiversity and earth observation data Application domains: + Biodiversity + Agronomy + Plant sciences + Agro-ecology Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages for long papers, 8 pages for position papers and 6 pages for short and system papers and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. Submissions will only be accepted in a PDF format. Papers must be submitted through the easychair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4biodiv2017 Proceedings of the workshop will be published online as a volume in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org<http://CEUR-WS.org>). Workshop Chairs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alsayed Algergawy (Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany) Naouel Karam (Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Friederike Klan (Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany) Clement Jonquet (LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France & Stanford University)) Programme Committee (to be completed) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Birgitta König-Ries (FSU Jena, Germany) Ramona Walls (University of Arizona, USA) Jens Kattge (FSU Jena, Germany) Claudia Müller-Birn (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Salima Benbernou (Université Paris 5, France) Harald Sack (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany) Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International) Isabelle Mougenot (University of Montpellier, France) Pierre Larmande (IRD) Manuel Ruiz (CIRAD) Pythagoras Karampiperis (AgroKnow) Konstantin Todorov, LIRMM (University of Montpellier, France) Caterina Caracciolo (Food & Agriculture Organisation) Brandon Whitehead (GISP, CABI) Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD) Pelin Yilmaz (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology) Robert Guralnick (Florida Museum of Natural History) Pier Luigi Buttigieg (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology) Mark Schildhauer (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) Dag Endresen (GBIF Norway, Natural History Museum in Oslo) Pascal Neveu (INRA) Aldo Gangemi (Paris Nord University) Katy Wolstencroft (LIACS, Leiden University)

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Planned outages of GBIF.org / TDWG.org
by Tim Robertson 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear all, Our apologies in advance, but we expect disruptions in both GBIF and TDWG services next week, Thursday and Friday, 22-23 June 2017. Partial outages may occur while we relocate the servers for GBIF's and TDWG's systems to a new data centre within the University of Copenhagen. During this move, we anticipate that GBIF.org, demo.GBIF.org and the GBIF API will continue to operate on temporary servers, though user account creation, dataset registration and dataset crawling will all be temporarily suspended. The TDWG website and all TDWG mailing lists are likely to remain offline throughout the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience and will strive to reduce the disruption and its duration as much as possible. Best wishes, Tim

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TOMORROW: DwC Hour 5: DwC Standards in Practice: Introduction to Sharing Data Using the GBIF IPT
by Motz, Gary 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Hi all, The iDigBio Data Management Interest Group is pleased to bring you the fifth installment of our DarwinCore (DwC) Hour webinar series. TOMORROW’s webinar is almost here: DwC Standards in Practice: Introduction to Sharing Data Using the GBIF IPT. Go Here for Webinar Details and Meeting Link: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-dwc-standards-practice-int… <https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-dwc-standards-practice-int…> ABSTRACT. This webinar introduces the GBIF IPT, the most widely used tool to publish and share biodiversity data through the GBIF network. Demonstrating how to publish a species occurrence dataset, special emphasis will be given to how to properly map fields to DwC terms while complying with vocabularies and making sure to satisfy GBIF’s required and recommended terms. It will end with a brief look at the tool’s roadmap, with some essential information all IPT administrators need to be made aware of. Please bring or submit questions for open discussions in each webinar: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz <https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz> When: Tuesday, June 13th, 10 AM EDT, 9AM CDT, 4 PM CEST Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room <https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room> Presenters: Kyle Braak - IPT Product Manager for GBIF, Laura Russell - Program Officer for Participation and Engagement at GBIF, Carole Sinou - Research Officer in Biodiversity for Canadensys. Moderators: Gary Motz, Erica Krimmel EXTRAS: Explore the Darwin Core Questions & Answers wiki! https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki> - where all DwC Hour materials can be found. See which of your questions have been asked and answered so far https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues> Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a webinar on your DwC topic: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz <https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz> Here's a list of terms for which DwC recommends use of a controlled vocabulary - note many are in the Location class. https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Controlled-Vocabularies> See what's inside some of the DwC fields that suggest using a controlled vocabulary (data from GBIF, iDigBio, VertNet, and soon ALA): https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data <https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/tree/master/data> Future DwC Hour webinars coming up feature discussions about Darwin Core locality terms and sharing georeferenced locality data, and aggregators sharing how they process data provided by the community. See you soon! Gary, et al. from the iDigBio Data Mgmt Interest Group and the Darwin Core Hour Team (please kindly excuse cross-postings!) Webinar series brought to you by the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI). We welcome input for this series from everyone worldwide. We plan to make this happen 1x month. We use Adobe Connect for our webinars. See https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing <https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing> for hints on best experience (hint: use headsets!)

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Call for Tender: TDWG Website Development
by Stanley Blum 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Call for Tender: Website Development TDWG seek a contract with a motivated and experienced web developer to revise the TDWG.org website. TDWG needs a website to communicate and support its outputs and activities. One that 1) provides a clear overview of what TDWG does, 2) welcomes new members, and 3) can be easily maintained by its volunteer membership. None of this is provided effectively by the current website at www.tdwg.org, which contains over 300 (outdated) pages and relies on a complex and undocumented set of tools to maintain it. As result of which is a lot of fragility and the majority of the membership unable to contribute to the website in fear of breaking things. Following a review by the TDWG Infrastructure Committee we envisage a new, simplified system built using a static site generator for the main components of the site and a sensible adoption of tools to manage membership and the annual conference registration. The TDWG organization depends heavily on GitHub services, which we anticipate will serve as a good repository and editing environment for content pages authored in Markdown. We seek a developer to work with us on a contracted basis to undertake this development and migration. The phases of this process we envisage and the scope are documented in the *TDWG Website Roadmap* <http://www.tdwg.org/fileadmin/tdwg/TDWG_Website_Roadmap.pdf> [PDF]. We invite parties to submit expressions of interest to secretariat(a)tdwg.org before June 12th 2017. In doing so, please briefly document 1) your vision for the TDWG site, 2) the process you would propose and 3) provide details of your rates and availability. TDWG recognize that the complete scope of this work is not fully specified and will adjust the priorities within the budget available. A good working relationship with the contractor is therefore necessary and knowledge of the existing TDWG processes will be highly recognized in selecting the successful candidate. Contract size - *€18,000.00* (excluding VAT if applicable) Contract administration and oversightAdministration The contract will be administered by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat (GBIFS) or the newly founded TDWG legal entity, subject to agreement with the selected contractor. Monitoring responsibility The TDWG Infrastructure Functional Subcommittee (FS) will be responsible for overseeing the progression of work and will report back to the TDWG executive committee. The TDWG Infrastructure FS would also be responsible for the timely provision of content material to the contractor. Payment mode Contract payments will be made by the contract administrator directly to the contractor pending approval by the TDWG executive committee of the satisfactory progression of work. And according to the table below Work ProgressPercentage of contract value released to contractor 0% 25% (initial payment) 25% 40% 50% 55% 75% 70% 100% 100% Completion date Delivery of product (as defined below) shall be completed not more than 12 months after the contract signing.

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