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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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DEADLINE EXTENSION to 12 June for DC-2017 submissions
by DCMI Announce 27 May '17

27 May '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* *DEADLINE EXTENSION: DC-2017 Call for Participation* *Advancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability* The deadline for submission has been extended for the DC-2017 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/> to be held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. *The revised submission deadline for all tracks is now 12 June 2017.* The revised Call for Participation is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp. Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen with its look towards the changing role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, DC-2017 will focus on technologies and practices that are advancing how we can create and manage good metadata. Interoperability and openness have been guiding principles of the DCMI community for over twenty years, and these principles have evolved through the development of Semantic Web standards and Linked Open Data. A deluge of new data sources is magnifying the perennial challenge of metadata quality but also inspiring the development of innovative tools, practices, and solutions, the focus of this year's conference. *Submission categories include:* - Peer reviewed Papers, Project Reports and Posters; - Presentations on Metadata; (without paper); - Panels (Special Sessions); - Post-conference Tutorials and workshops. Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, reports, presentations and poster are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment and maintenance: - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices - Curation, governance, and sustainability - Conceptual models and frameworks - Lessons from implementation - Interoperability and harmonization - Metadata quality and validation *Program Committee Chairs:* *Carol Jean Godby*, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research *Mike Lauruhn*, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs For more information, visit the Call for Participation on the DC-2017 website <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp>.

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DCMI Webinar: How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data
by DCMI Announce 19 May '17

19 May '17

********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** *How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *=====================================================* *:: Presenter:* Dave Clarke, Synaptica *:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Webinar-Clarke) *:: Date: *Wednesday, 14 June 2017 *:: Registration: *http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017clarke *=====================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* This webinar will demonstrate how to design and build rich end-user search and discovery applications using Linked Data. The Linked Open Data cloud is a rapidly growing collection of publicly accessible resources, which can be adopted and reused to enrich both internal enterprise projects and public-facing information systems. The webinar will use the Linked Canvas application as its primary use-case. Linked Canvas is an application designed by Synaptica for the cultural heritage community. It enables high-resolution images of artworks and artifacts to be catalogued and subject indexed using Linked Data. The talk will demonstrate how property fields and relational predicates can be adopted from open data ontologies and metadata schemes, such as DCMI, SKOS, IIIF and the Web Annotation Model. Selections of properties and predicates can then be recombined to create Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) customized for business applications. The demonstration will also illustrate how very-large-scale subject taxonomies and name authority files, such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, DBpedia, and the Getty Linked Open Data Vocabularies collection, can be used for content enrichment and indexing. There will be a brief discussion of the general principles of graph databases, RDF triple stores, and the SPARQL query language. This technical segment will discuss the pros and cons of accessing remote server endpoints versus cached copies of external Linked Data resources, as well as the challenge of providing high-performance full text search against graph databases. The webinar will conclude by providing a demonstration of Linked Canvas to illustrate various end-user experiences that can be created with Linked Data technology: faceted search across data collections; pinch and zoom navigation inside images; the exploration of concepts and ideas associated with specific points of interest; the discovery of conceptually related images; and the creation of guided tours with embedded audio-visual commentary. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* *Dave Clarke* is co-founder and CEO of the Synaptica® group of companies, providers of enterprise software solutions for knowledge organization and discovery. He served on the authoring committee responsible for the 2005 version of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19. Dave leads research and development at Synaptica, where is developing an extensive range of software solutions for ontology management, image management, Linked Data management, and text analytics. He is actively involved in educational outreach programs including LD4PE, the Linked Data for Professional Education initiative of DCMI. Synaptica software solutions have attracted numerous international awards including: Knowledge Management World magazine’s 100 Companies that Matter in KM and Trend Setting Product of the Year (multiple awards between 2011 and 2017). In 2016 Clarke was awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award by the Global Knowledge Management Congress. Dave is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and an Associate of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle. He is currently researching the impact of personalized search and social media on social polarization and post-truth politics.

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DCMI Webinar: Me4MAP - A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles
by DCMI Announce 10 May '17

10 May '17

********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** Me4MAP: A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *=========================================================* *:: Presenter:* Mariana Curado Malta *:: Dates:* Wednesday, 24 May 2017 (EN) | Wednesday, 31 May 2017 (PT) *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT 24 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-EN) - English 31 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-PT) - Portuguese *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017Malta *=========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* A metadata application profile (MAP) is a construct that provides a semantic model for enhancing interoperability when publishing to the Web of Data. With a MAP, each property is defined as an RDF vocabulary term with the definition of domain, range, and cardinality. According to the DCMI document "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata", a MAP is a construct that enhances semantic interoperability. Therefore, when a community of practice agrees to follow a MAP's set of rules for publishing data as Linked Open Data, it makes it possible for such data published the LOD cloud to be processed automatically by software agents. A MAP is therefore a construct of great importance and the existence of a method for its development is essential to give MAP developers a common ground on which to work. The absence of such a method leads to a non-systematic set of MAP development activities that might result in MAPs with less quality. This Webinar will present Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata application profiles. Me4MAP was defined in the context of a PhD and is still now being tested and refined. It is a method that is approached through a software engineering perspective. With Me4MAP, we do not propose a universal solution; rather, our intention is to establish a starting point for the study and design of methods for the development of MAPs. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* Mariana Curado Malta is an Associate Professor at Polythecnic of Oporto, Portugal and a researcher in CEOS.PP, Portugal. Currently, she is on leave in the Laboratorio de Inovación en Humanidades Digitales in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. Her research work is framed in a project (POSTDATA), financed by a European Research Council Starting Grant that aims to publish poetry data (and related data) as Linked Open Data. In POSTDATA she is responsible for the semantic modelling. Her research interests are related to methods for the development of metadata application profiles and the quality of MAPs in particular and metadata in general. She is the co-author of Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata application profiles. Mariana Curado Malta has a PhD in Technologies and Information Systems from University of Minho, Portugal. She is the author of several research papers, book chapters, and recently co-edited the book “Developing metadata application profiles” published by IGI Global.

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Pl@ntNet post-doc position
by Alexis Joly 09 May '17

09 May '17

There is currently an opening for a post-doc position in machine learning applied to biodiversity informatics in Montpellier, France (see attached document). Kind regards, Alexis — Alexis Joly, PhD Inria, ZENITH team, LIRMM, rue saint Priest, Montpellier, France http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Alexis.Joly

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Second Call for DC-2017 Participation, Washington, D.C., October 26-29
by DCMI Announce 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* 2nd Call for DC-2017 Participation *Theme: Advancing Metadata Practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability* The deadline for submission is only one month away for the DC-2017 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/> to be held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. The Call for Participation is available at http://dcevents.dublincore. org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp. Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen with its look towards the changing role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, DC-2017 will focus on technologies and practices that are advancing how we can create and manage good metadata. Interoperability and openness have been guiding principles of the DCMI community for over twenty years, and these principles have evolved through the development of Semantic Web standards and Linked Open Data. A deluge of new data sources is magnifying the perennial challenge of metadata quality but also inspiring the development of innovative tools, practices, and solutions, the focus of this year's conference. Submission categories include: - Peer reviewed Papers, Project Reports and Posters; - Presentations on Metadata; (without paper); - Panels (Special Sessions); - Post-conference Tutorials and workshops. Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, reports, presentations and poster are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment and maintenance: - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices - Curation, governance, and sustainability - Conceptual models and frameworks - Lessons from implementation - Interoperability and harmonization - Metadata quality and validation *The Program Committee Chairs:* *Carol Jean Godby*, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research *Mike Lauruhn*, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs For more information, visit the *Call for Participation* on the DC-2017 website <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp>.

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NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation
by DCMI Announce 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* *NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation* The 11th U.S. *Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop* will take place on Saturday, October 28 as part of DC-2017 <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/> in Crystal City, VA (Washington, D.C.). Proposals are invited for *Presentations* and *Demos*. *Important Dates:* *Submission deadline:* Friday, June 30, 2017 *Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, August 15, 2017 *Submission:* For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit the NKOS Call for Participation at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/nkosCall on the DC-2017 website. *Workshop Themes:* *Research Data Management (RDM).* NKOS welcomes presentations that focus on the knowledge organization issues related to controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy, and other KOS to enable access to collections, e.g., in order to be able to replicate scientific results. What are the KOS requirements related to data storage and preservation; and communication, coordination and collaboration to support librarian and researcher needs? *Aggregation.* The objective of linked open data is to provide distributed access to vocabularies and content that uses vocabularies. Actually using vocabularies to aggregate distributed content is a special case that reconstructs collections that are now dispersed. Examples include Renaissance artist sketchbooks, natural history collections from enlightenment humanists, etc. *Metadata Enrichment.* This theme relates to reusing existing metadata sources and adding additional controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy, and other KOS to create new resources. E.g., building a new data resource based on selecting content from the Code of Federal Regulations and enriching the collection by adding new vocabularies. *Authority Control.* How does authority control work in a global linked data community? What agencies should and are willing to be responsible for the names of public agencies, companies, subsidiaries, brands and trademarks, and artists who constitute a national group based on birth place and/or area of activity. *Metrics and Quality.* How are controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy and other KOS quantified and qualified? What are the appropriate dimensions of use and validation. Does Google Analytics have a role? Are there other methods and practical applications? *Life Cycle Management.* What is the common lifecycle of terms within controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy and other KOS? What are the downstream impacts and best practices for handling of vocabulary changes? *NKOS Program Committee:* *Joseph Busch,* Taxonomy Strategies *Jane Greenberg,* Drexel University *Diane Hillman,* Metadata Management Associates *Gail Hodge,* Information International Associates *Kathryn La Barre,* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne *Jian Qin,* Syracuse University *Dagobert Soergel,* University at Buffalo *Joseph Tennis,* University of Washington *Diane Vizine-Goetz,* OCLC Research *Marcia Zeng,* Kent State University

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Webinar: Nailing Jello to a Wall: Metrics, Frameworks, & Existing Work for Metadata Assessment
by DCMI Announce 15 Apr '17

15 Apr '17

********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** *Nailing Jello to a Wall: Metrics, Frameworks, & Existing Work for Metadata Assessment* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *with **Christina Harlow**, Cornell University Library* *===================================================* *:: Presenter:* Christina Harlow *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Harlow-2017) *:: Date: *Thursday, 27 April 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017harlow *===================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* With the increasing number of repositories, standards and resources we manage for digital libraries, there is a growing need to assess, validate and analyze our metadata - beyond our traditional approaches such as writing XSD or generating CSVs for manual review. Being able to further analyze and determine measures of metadata quality helps us better manage our data and data-driven development, particularly with the shift to Linked Open Data leading many institutions to large-scale migrations. Yet, the semantically-rich metadata desired by many Cultural Heritage Institutions, and the granular expectations of some of our data models, makes performing assessment, much less going on to determine quality or performing validation, that much trickier. How do we handle analysis of the rich understandings we have built into our Cultural Heritage Institutions' metadata and enable ourselves to perform this analysis with the systems and resources we have? This webinar sets up this question and proposes some guidelines, best practices, tools and workflows around the evaluation of metadata used by and for digital libraries and Cultural Heritage Institution repositories. What metrics have other researchers or practitioners applied to measure their definition of quality? How do these metrics or definitions for quality compare across examples – from the large and aggregation-focused, like Europeana, to the relatively small and project-focused, like Cornell University Library's own SharedShelf instance? Do any metadata assessment frameworks exist, and how do they compare to the proposed approaches in core literature in this area, such as Thomas Bruce and Diane Hillmann's 2004 article, "The Continuum of Metadata Quality"? The Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group (or DLF AIG) has a Metadata Working Group that has been attempting to build a framework that can be used broadly for digital repository metadata assessment - the state of this work, and the issues it has raised, will be discussed in this webinar as well. Finally, how does one begin to approach this metadata assessment – what tools, applications, or efforts for performing assessment exist for common digital repository applications or data publication mechanisms? This webinar hopes to provide some solutions to these questions within existing literature, work, and examples of metadata assessment happening 'on the ground'. The goal is for webinar participants to walk away prepared to handle their own metadata assessment needs by using the existing work outlined and being better aware of the open questions in this domain. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* *Christina Harlow* works on metadata operations for the Cornell University Library. This work involves building out data infrastructure, ETL (extract transform load) functions, and Linked Open Data usage in service of distributed metadata management for Cornell's library repositories and systems.

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