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Hiring: Biodiversity Data Coordinator
by Killion, Alexander 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

New Position Available: Biodiversity Data Coordinator, Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change The Biodiversity Data Coordinator will join a team of researchers and informaticians at the Center for Biodiversity and Global Change<https://bgc.yale.edu/> at Yale University to manage, build, and analyze geospatial biodiversity datasets to support conservation science and decision-making. They will prepare global, regional, national, and local geospatial species and environmental data for external partners. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining rigorous data standards, FAIR data practices, and scientific integrity. They will work closely with other team members to ensure science products are delivered to partners and will be responsible for establishing new workflows, standardizing metadata, and maintaining taxonomies. ‍ The Center for Biodiversity and Global Change at Yale University is home to Map of Life (MOL.org<http://mol.org/>), which supports effective global biodiversity education, monitoring, research, and decision-making by assembling and integrating a wide range of knowledge about species distributions and their dynamics over time. Our team also leads the data integration and mapping efforts of the Half-Earth Project to identify and prioritize target areas for global biodiversity conservation. We work to support decision-making to conserve biodiversity using the best available science. ‍ The Biodiversity Data Coordinator will provide data and GIS support to existing and prospective partnerships spanning many sectors (e.g., national governments, international and local conservation NGOs, business, finance, academia, etc.). We are proud of our long-term relationships, for example with NASA, Esri, Google, the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network, and the Field Museum who have facilitated many more local and regional engagements. Visit here<https://bgc.yale.edu/jobs/biodiversity-data-coordinator> for more information and to apply. Please email alexander.killion(a)yale.edu<mailto:alexander.killion@yale.edu>with any questions.

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Fwd: Fulbright distinguished award at USP Brazil, on Planetary health
by Stan Blum 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

For US subscribers; please be aware of and share this opportunity for a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Sao Paulo. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: António Mauro Saraiva <saraiva(a)usp.br> Date: Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 3:23 PM Subject: Fulbright distinguished award at USP Brazil, on Planetary health To: Dear colleagues, how are you doing? There is an open call from Fulbright, for an US researcher to come to Brazil, to my University, to work on Planetary Health. https://fulbright.org.br/awards-for-us-citizens/distinguished-scholar-award… Can you advertise it in all possible ways, please? Interested parties may also contact me, Antonio Saraiva, Head - Planetary Health Brazil, Institute of Advanced Studies, IEA-USP, saraiva(a)usp.br thank you very much Best regards António António Mauro Saraiva Full Professor, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Escola Politécnica (EP) Head - Planetary Health Brazil , Institute of Advanced Studies, IEA-USP Center for Artificial Intelligence, C4AI-AgriBio, USP/IBM/FAPESP NIST Fight to Hunger (INCT - Combate à Fome) saraiva(a)usp.br saudeplanetaria.iea.usp.br c4ai.inova.usp.br

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DCMI 2024: Call for Participation – Deadline Extended
by DCMI Announce 23 May '24

23 May '24

DCMI 2024: Call for Participation – Deadline Extended Metadata Innovation: Trust, Transformation, and Humanity October 20-23, University of Toronto, Canada https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2024/cfp/ Submission Deadlines (Extended): Papers (full and short), Panel, Workshop: April 29, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE) -> deadline passed, no more submission Posters, Project Reports, Student Forum, and Tutorials: June 10th, 2024, 23:59 (AoE) Notification for authors: July 8, 2024, 23:59 (AoE) Final copy: July 22, 2024, 23:59 (AoE) Registration is Open! You can secure your place at the DCMI 2024 Annual Conference by registering today. The early bird rates are available until September 19, 2024. Register here: https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2024/registration/ DCMI 2024, the twenty-second International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, invites researchers, practitioners, and experts from diverse domains to explore the dynamic landscape of metadata in the theme of Trust, Transformation, and Humanity. The fast-paced advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create new research fronts for metadata. While AI can bring benefits to research, learning, and society at large, it has also supercharged deepfake contents that are used for nefarious purposes. Ensuring trustworthy AI and applications is the first line in responsible metadata research and practice and in fighting the misinformation, disinformation, and deepfake contents. Metadata is quickly expanding its role in providing transparent, trustworthy, and effective representation of data, information, and knowledge in the transformation from “data about data” to data-underpinned knowledge. In this expansion of metadata roles, we strive to bring innovative metadata ideas, projects, and practices together to foster and protect humanity. DCMI 2024 serves as a unique platform for the discussion of "innovative research and practice" - presenting visions for future metadata development and solutions to practical metadata problems. Join researchers, practitioners, and experts from a wide range of sectors in a collaborative exploration of metadata's evolving role through your papers, posters, panel discussions, best practice reports, designathon/hackathon, workshops, and more. DCMI 2024 will feature exclusively in-person meetings. For full details about key topics and submission guidelines, please visit: https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2024/cfp/

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Free Dublin Core Webinar on Metadata & Disinformation with Amelia Acker - June 13, 2024
by DCMI Announce 16 May '24

16 May '24

Join our free Dublin Core, ASIS&T Webinar with Amelia Acker to explore how metadata is exploited to craft deceptive narratives on social media. Learn about tactics used by bad actors and the importance of responsible data management. Register for free with code DCMI25 On the Duality of Metadata: Potential Uses and Abuses of Provenance Information June 13, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT) https://www.dublincore.org/webinars/2024/duality-of-provenance-metadata/ In the past decade, critical internet studies scholars and disinformation researchers have discovered how metadata can be exploited to craft deceptive narratives and influence public discourse on platforms. This talk explores some tactics used by bad actors to manipulate social media platforms and evade content moderation by obfuscating provenance information; highlighting the importance of metadata in identifying disinformation and current responses managing the risks of deceptive content spread across platforms. Provenance information serves as the foundation for responsible data management, data exchange and reuse. But as platforms evolve, this same metadata can be manipulated by bad actors to craft deceptive narratives and spread disinformation. This is a DCMI Webinar organized by the Dublin Core Education Committee and moderated by Education Committee co-chair Karen Wickett. For free registration use the registration code DCMI25. Speaker: Amelia Acker – University of Texas at Austin (https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/people-details?PersonID=302) Dr. Amelia Acker is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information, where she directs the MSIS program and leads the Critical Data Studies Lab. Currently, Acker is a Fellow of the Governor Bill Daniel Professorship in Archival Enterprise and a recipient of the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship for 2024-2025. Her research on data archives and preservation has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Acker’s current research agenda focuses on cultures of mobile computing, emerging digital preservation models, data literacy, personal information management, and metadata standards for scientific data management. Visit https://www.dublincore.org/webinars/2024/duality-of-provenance-metadata/ to register for the webinar. DCMI Education Committee Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

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LAST Chance: TaxonWorks Together 2024 -- starts tomorrow! 7 May
by Deborah Paul 06 May '24

06 May '24

Greetings Everyone, Our 5th annual TaxonWorks Together starts -- in <gulp> 14 hours! It's your opportunity to learn more about us, our collaborators and adopters, and our chance to learn from you. * Agenda and Registration for TaxonWorks Together *https://together.taxonworks.org/ <ttps://together.taxonworks.org/> Over 170 folks registered now from 29 countries. Some session topics that may pique your interests and the interests of your collaborators, colleagues and students: * Your TaxonWorks Adventure Begins (Demos and Tours) * The Latest from TaxonWorks and the Species File Group at INHS * Our New and Experienced TaxonWorks Adopters Share Their Experiences * Managing Natural History Collections in TaxonWorks: Perspectives, Tips, and Highlights of New Digitization Workflows * Vision: Integrating the TaxonWorks Experience Into a Taxonomy Course * Generating an Illustrated Catalog of Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) with TaxonWorks and TaxonPages * Growing Taxonomic Communities * From Plazi to TaxonWorks * A Data Quality Round Table Conversation with GBIF, iDigBio, The Paleo Data Working Group, Robert Mesibov, Collection Managers, and the SFG * Balancing Global Agency and Local Precision. Roundtrip your feedback. * A Look Inside One’s (TaxonWorks) Data * Managing (and Growing) a Community of Code * Investigating Biological Associations and Relationships Using the UCD@TW API * Show and Tell - Wrapping biodiversity-from OpenRefine to R, Ruby and Python libraries wrapping APIs See you there! We have opportunities for you to share your insights also, built into the program (see 3 Minutes 1 Slide). Debbie, for the SFG and TaxonWorks Together 2024 -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Past Chair 2021-2022 -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org

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Geospatial Peeps! TaxonWorks Together 2024: Our Collective Geospatial Future
by Deborah Paul 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Greetings Everyone, RE: Our Collective Geospatial Future -- topic at TaxonWorks Together 2024 We hope you can join us for this open discussion about Our Collective Geospatial Future <https://docs.google.com/document/d/14fRWiDS-djGBzr7fKp8YWUI90qIsh7EnxpRMVP9…>. /We do ask that you share widely with others you know who might be interested and have a stake in these matters./ We've put together some possible talking points (in that link above) for you to peruse so you can get a feel for the scope and scale of what we'd like to talk about. This session is Thursday 9 May at 15:30 UTC (1030 CDT). Registration (FREE) and Full Agenda for TWT2024 <https://together.taxonworks.org/> Thanks very much for */your participation/* and */for sharing this with colleagues!/* Debbie, for SFG and TWT2024 -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Past Chair 2021-2022 -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org

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You're Invited: TaxonWorks Together 2024 ... with an Eye on the Future
by Deborah Paul 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Greetings TDWG Folks, RE: TaxonWorks Together 2024 - You're Invited - May 7 - 9 The details and to register, see https://together.taxonworks.org/ Bring your perspectives on how to "Describe Life" to the 5th annual event on TaxonWorks, its community, and the broader world of biodiversity informatics. Check out the agenda to see our guests (from aggregators to researchers to data and collection managers and developers and you). Some key topics to pique your particular interests: * Everyone Can Develop: contributing to and using community-centric open-source endeavours * Our New and Experienced TaxonWorks Adopters Share Their Experiences * Geospatial tools in biodiversity informatics, an open discussion on where we might head * Balancing Global Agency and Local Precision. Roundtrip your feedback. o If you think about the extended specimen and wonder how we can help collections and individuals get recognized for their efforts, if you wonder about your agency, please check out this session. * From Plazi to TaxonWorks * Managing Natural History Collections in TaxonWorks: Perspectives, Tips, and Highlights of New Digitization Workflows o Hear from those actively managing their collections and publishing their data using TaxonWorks * Growing Taxonomic Communities * Your TaxonWorks Adventure Begins (Demos and Tours) * A (Biodiversity) Data Quality Round Table Conversation o From data quality (e. g. completeness, consistency, compliance), to data management, expect an in-depth congenial local-to-global conversation. From the data aggregator, to the working group, the researcher, the collection / data manager, and the data analyst, what do we each experience, what do we dream of? How is data-quality an outcome of processes? Looking for alignment opportunities and ways to realize the extended specimen. * Vision: Integrating the TaxonWorks Experience Into a Taxonomy Course Some activities will be highly-guided, some information style, and some unconference style. Zoom space may be limited, please don't wait! Questions welcome. Please see agenda for details <https://together.taxonworks.org/> and to register. In anticipation, Debbie, for the Species File Group /PS definitely cross-posting far-and-wide/ -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Past Chair 2021-2022 -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org

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by Christy Semmens 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

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Digital Data Conference: Agenda Posted
by Nelson,Gil 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

[cid:1b13c91b-c8e3-4817-a742-2c809efd8afd] Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference Hybrid Event May 29-31, 2024 Hosted by University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Important Announcements: The draft Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference<https://digitaldata2024.sched.com/> agenda has been posted. We are excited to share the great line-up of presentations and workshops that will be available. Abstract Submission Extension: We are continuing to receive requests so are extending the abstract submission deadline to this Friday, April 19th. If you are still interested in presenting, please contact Kit Lewers ASAP. (kristen.lewers(a)ufl.edu) Limited space is still available for the eDNA GBIF workshop on Friday, May 31st (In-person only). If you are interested in participating, please register here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbgpGZcOw-UMXGiIdcNZGv082xRCnUwhs…>. Ticket, logistic, and agenda information can all be found on the conference website: https://digitaldata2024.sched.com/ Jillian Goodwin iDigBio Conference Manager Florida Museum of Natural History 508-887-6043 www.idigbio.org

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DCMI 2024: Call for Participation – Deadline Extended
by DCMI Announce 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

DCMI 2024: Call for Participation – Deadline Extended Metadata Innovation: Trust, Transformation, and Humanity October 20-23, University of Toronto, Canada https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2024/cfp/ ------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadlines (Extended) ------------------------------- - Papers (full and short), Panel, Workshop: April 29, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE) - Posters, Project Reports, Student Forum, and Tutorials: May 27th, 2024, 23:59 (AoE) - Best Practices and Talks are by invitation DCMI 2024, the twenty-second International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, invites researchers, practitioners, and experts from diverse domains to explore the dynamic landscape of metadata in the theme of Trust, Transformation, and Humanity. The fast-paced advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create new research fronts for metadata. While AI can bring benefits to research, learning, and society at large, it has also supercharged deepfake contents that are used for nefarious purposes. Ensuring trustworthy AI and applications is the first line in responsible metadata research and practice and in fighting the misinformation, disinformation, and deepfake contents. Metadata is quickly expanding its role in providing transparent, trustworthy, and effective representation of data, information, and knowledge in the transformation from “data about data’’ to data-underpinned knowledge. In this expansion of metadata roles, we strive to bring innovative metadata ideas, projects, and practices together to foster and protect humanity. DCMI 2024 serves as a unique platform for the discussion of “innovative research and practice” - presenting visions for future metadata development and solutions to practical metadata problems. Join researchers, practitioners, and experts from a wide range of sectors in a collaborative exploration of metadata’s evolving role through your papers, posters, panel discussions, best practice reports, designathon/hackathon, workshops, and more. DCMI 2024 will feature exclusively in-person meetings. Key areas: ~~~~~~~~~~ Under the conference theme Metadata Innovation: Trust, Transformation, and Humanity, the DCMI 2024 conference welcomes submissions on the following topics broadly related to metadata design, deployment, and best practices (but not limited to): - Data Integrity and Reliability: Innovative metadata research and practices that ensure data integrity, accuracy, and reliability. - Ethics and Metadata: Addressing ethical considerations in metadata creation and management to build trust. - Adaptation to Emerging Technologies: Transforming metadata constructs and systems to enable the full utilization of technologies in AI, linked data, and knowledge bases. - Metadata and Data Science: Application of data science theories and methods in developing linked, intelligent metadata to facilitate transformation. - Metadata for the Public Good: The implications and significance of metadata in trustworthy AI; the role of metadata in supporting the fight against nefarious deepfakes, misinformation, and disinformation; open data, open science, and open metadata. - Cultural and Social Dimensions of Metadata: Digital humanities and metadata, semantic and computational metadata for cultural heritage objects, equitable metadata representation for historical materials, and critical study of metadata theories, practices, standards, and tools. - Interoperability and Reusability: Solutions and practices in creating FAIR metadata, case studies of data reusability fostered by metadata, and new data structures and models supporting metadata interoperability. Submission Guidelines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - At least one author of an accepted submission must be physically present at the conference to present the work in person (\*with an exception of the student forum). - Submissions must follow the guidelines for one of the categories enumerated below. - All submissions must be in English. - All submissions must be made via the Submission System, ` <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcmi2023>`__\ https://go.dublincore.org/dcmi-2024/submission-portal - Submissions must be a single Portable Document Format (PDF) along with the document’s source. - The source file should be Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), or LaTeX files in a single compressed zip file (.zip). - Authors are required to include their ORCID in their submissions. Templates ~~~~~~~~~ - .. rubric:: All submissions must use the official DCPapers template for DCMI conference proceedings. :name: all-submissions-must-use-the-official-dcpapers-template-for-dcmi-conference-proceedings. - .. rubric:: Templates for both Microsoft Word and LaTeX are available in the DCPapers template repository. Template files can be downloaded from https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/releases/latest :name: templates-for-both-microsoft-word-and-latex-are-available-in-the-dcpapers-template-repository.-template-files-can-be-downloaded-from-httpsgithub.comdcmidcpapers-templatesreleaseslatest - .. rubric:: Any modification to the template, including but not limited to adjustments in margins, typeface sizes, line spacing, paragraphs, and list definitions, is discouraged. :name: any-modification-to-the-template-including-but-not-limited-to-adjustments-in-margins-typeface-sizes-line-spacing-paragraphs-and-list-definitions-is-discouraged. - .. rubric:: Users of Microsoft Word are required to install the Libertinus font family on their computer. The DOCX template contains detailed installation instructions. :name: users-of-microsoft-word-are-required-to-install-the-libertinus-font-family-on-their-computer.-the-docx-template-contains-detailed-installation-instructions. - .. rubric:: Users familiar with LaTeX should prefer the LaTeX template. :name: users-familiar-with-latex-should-prefer-the-latex-template. - .. rubric:: An Overleaf template is available at https://go.dublincore.org/dcmi-2024/overleaf-template :name: an-overleaf-template-is-available-at-httpsgo.dublincore.orgdcmi-2024overleaf-template - .. rubric:: Please use GitHub issues exclusively for inquiries and reporting template-related issues at https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/issues :name: please-use-github-issues-exclusively-for-inquiries-and-reporting-template-related-issues-at-httpsgithub.comdcmidcpapers-templatesissues - .. rubric:: Detailed formatting guidelines are included in both the DOCX and LaTeX templates :name: detailed-formatting-guidelines-are-included-in-both-the-docx-and-latex-templates - .. rubric:: Authors are required to add their ORCID in the submission as indicated in the templates. :name: authors-are-required-to-add-their-orcid-in-the-submission-as-indicated-in-the-templates. Submission categories ===================== Note: - The open-access conference proceedings are indexed by Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, ACM, and Crossref. Online proceedings will be available before the start of the conference. - Presentation slides, poster slide images, and student forum extended abstracts will be published on the DCMI website. Full papers ~~~~~~~~~~~ Full papers either describe innovative work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practices. - 8-10 pages, single-spaced, plus references Short papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Short papers are narrower in scope than full papers and may be either a description of work in progress, or a project report that concisely describes a specific model, application, or activity. - 4-5 pages, single-spaced, plus references Panels ~~~~~~ Panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata. Each panel serves as a focused exchange regarding the latest research and/or best practice in the area. - 1-2 page abstract with panelists’ bios of 100-150 words each Workshops Workshops engage participants in active work to address one or more well-defined problems or issues. The style of workshops may vary depending on the organizers, and may include presentation/discussion-based or problem-solving-based activities. - 3-4 hours (half-day) or 6-8 hours (full-day) - 1-2 pages of descriptions - Objectives - Format - Names of organizers - Event plan (Agenda or Activities) - Descriptions will be included in the online Proceedings - Conference registration is required (Full registration or one-day registration). Project reports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Project reports are for the presentation, demonstration, and evaluation of work-in-progress related to metadata best practices. - 2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references Posters ~~~~~~~ Posters are for the presentation of projects, research under development, or late-breaking results. - 2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references Tutorials ~~~~~~~~~ Tutorials introduce specific topics of current interest in metadata practice, optionally including hands-on practice. Proposals for tutorials must include: - 2-3 page proposal including: - Title of tutorial and topic to be covered (2-3 paragraphs) - Target audience and expected learning outcomes - Tutorial style: lecture, demonstration, hands-on practice, etc. - Any prior knowledge required (e.g., RDF, programming languages) - Whether participants must (or should) bring laptops or install software beforehand - Presenter bios (100-150 words each) Student Forum ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The student forum aims at providing an opportunity for master’s and doctoral students to share their experiences and exchange ideas of best practices, research in progress, and findings in areas related to metadata innovation. - Less than 1500 words plus references - All presenters at the student forum will receive free registration for the conference - All presenters participating in the Student Forum will automatically qualify for the Student Forum Award competition. Winners will be chosen by the Student Forum Committee, and they will receive prizes of $300 for first place and $200 for second place to assist with travel expenses. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadlines (Extended): - Papers (full and short), Panel, and Workshop: April 29th, 2024, 23:59 (AoE) - Posters, Project Reports, Student Forum, and Tutorials: May 27th, 2024, 23:59 (AoE) - Best Practices and Talks are by invitation Notification to authors: - Paper, Panel, and Workshop: June 17, 2024 - Poster, Project Reports, Student Forum and Tutorials: June 24, 2024 Final copy of papers due: July 8, 2024

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