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DCMI/ASIS&T webinar about Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) on April 21
by DCMI Announce 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Date: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 Tim: 14:00 UTC (convert to your local timezone [1]) Presenters: - Jane Fry, Data Services Librarian, Carleton University - Arofan Gregory, Independent Consultant - Jared Lyle, Executive Director, DDI Alliance and Archivist, ICPSR, University of Michigan - Barry Radler, Distinguished Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison The webinar will discuss the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences, with an emphasis on DDI-Codebook and DDI-Lifecycle. DDI-Codebook is a light-weight version of the standard, intended primarily to document simple survey data. DDI-Lifecycle is designed to document and manage data across the entire life cycle, from conceptualization to data publication, analysis and beyond. It encompasses all of the DDI-Codebook specification and extends it to more complex, linked, and longitudinal data. Based on XML Schemas, DDI-Lifecycle is modular and extensible. The presentation will also briefly discuss the DDI Alliance organizational structure, as well as products currently under development. The learning objectives for the webinar are: - To understand DDI-Codebook, including when and how to use it. - To understand DDI-Lifecycle and an applied example. - To understand how the DDI Alliance organization maintains the DDI metadata standard. The webinar is free for DCMI members. For further information, including instructions on how to join as a DCMI member, see [2]. [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=DCMI+Webinar%3A+I… [2] https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/02-18-webinar-introduction-to-ddi/

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TDWG 2021 Program Committee - last day to apply
by Deborah Paul 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Hi All, RE: TDWG 2021 Program Committee Opportunity - Last Day to Apply If you're looking to help envision and design the 2021 Conference for Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG, please submit your application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPd9b3GDS5SFEapmi4ep1b1i1opZMK4w_…> for consideration by 10 February 2021 -- today ;-) Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPd9b3GDS5SFEapmi4ep1b1i1opZMK4w_… In 2021 anticipation, Deborah Paul, et al from TDWG Executive Committee -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics (BI) Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS) - University of Illinois -- BI Standards (TDWG) Chair (2021-2022) -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar new email: dlpaul(a)illinois.edu

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Fwd: Wednesday Feb 10 Webinar: KNIME Analytics Platform (DCMI)
by DCMI Announce 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

This Webinar will be hosted by ASIS&T. Registration for DCMI webinars is currently free of charge, but you will need to use the *discount code 'dcmi25' *when you register. Full details, including instructions for joining the webinar <https://associationforinformationscienceandtechnologyasist.growthzoneapp.co…> . About the webinar: https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/02-10-webinar-introduction-to-knime/ [image: Image] > > KNIME Analytics Platform (DCMI) > > > > *Magnus Pfeffer and Kai Eckert February 10, 11:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST* > > KNIME Analytics Platform is an open source software for working with all > kinds of data. It uses visual workflows that are created with an intuitive, > drag and drop style graphical interface, without the need for coding. The > webinar will give an introduction to KNIME and focus on data blending and > shaping. > > > > All data files and KNIME workflows used in the webinar will be made > available after the webinar, so participants can reproduce the demonstrated > steps on their own computers. > > > > 1) Attendees will be introduced to the KNIME Analytics Platform > > 2) Data cleaning techniques such as data blending and shaping will be > demonstrated. > > 3) Attendees will learn about machine learning models and their role in > optimizing workflow performance and application to validation metrics. > > > > Through the generosity of DCMI, this webinar is being offered > complimentary to all registrants who attend the live presentation. > > *Presenters* > [image: Image] > > > Dr. Kai Eckert is professor for web-based information systems at Stuttgart > Media University, Germany. His research interests include linked data, data > integration and enrichment, knowledge organization and data provenance. > > > > Magnus Pfeffer is professor for information management at Stuttgart Media > University, Germany. His research interests include linked data, metadata > integration, information retrieval in heterogeneous datasets and machine > learning. > REGISTER NOW > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassociati…> > This email was sent on behalf of Association for Information Science and > Technology | ASIS&T located at 8555 16th Street, Suite 850, Silver > Spring, MD 20910. To unsubscribe click here. > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassociati…> > If you have questions or comments concerning this email contact Association > for Information Science and Technology | ASIS&T . >

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IG GBWG Genomic Biodiversity - Invitation to join mailing list
by Dröge, Gabriele 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Dear all, For the reshaped Interest Group "Genomic Biodiversity" we created a mailing list (tdwg-gbwg(a)lists.tdwg.org<mailto:tdwg-gbwg@lists.tdwg.org>) to be used for announcing meetings and IG related matters. You are welcome to join the mailing list (and our meetings), please subscribe at: http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-gbwg The main topic for the whole year will be environmental DNA and environmental sample data. Our next meeting will take place over Zoom at UTC 16:00 - 17:30 on Tuesday, 23rd March (=11am EST/5pm CET). If you want to learn more about the Interest Group please have a look at: https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/ https://github.com/tdwg/gbwg Best wishes, Katie Barker, John Deck and Gabi Droege (conveners) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gabi Droege Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Freie Universität Berlin Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8 14195 Berlin Germany +49 30 838 50 139 www.ggbn.org<http://www.ggbn.org> www.bgbm.org<http://www.bgbm.org>

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TG MIDS - General: Join mailing list and next meeting date
by Alex Hardisty 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Dear all, Mailing list We created a mailing list (tdwg-mids(a)lists.tdwg.org<mailto:tdwg-mids@lists.tdwg.org>) for the recently launched MIDS Task Group to develop a standard for Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS). We will use this to announce meeting details and other matters. To follow/contribute to the work, please join the mailing list. You can subscribe here: http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-mids. Next meeting The next meeting of the MIDS TG will take place by Zoom at UTC 15:00 - 16:30 on Thursday 7th January. Details will be announced on the new mailing list on 5th January. More detail To discover more information about the TG, see its charter here: https://www.tdwg.org/community/cd/mids/. To follow the work in progress see/join GitHub here: https://github.com/tdwg/mids. To read the current working draft of the specification, see it here: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/blob/working-draft/current-draft/MIDS-definiti… Kind regards -- Alex and Elspeth (TG convenors) Alex Hardisty Alex Hardisty Director of Informatics Projects Cyfarwyddwr y Prosiect Gwybodeg School of Computer Science and Informatics Yr Ysgol Cyfrifiadureg a Gwybodeg Cardiff University, Queens Buildings Prifysgol Caerdydd, Adeiladau'r Frenhines 5, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA 5, The Parade, Caerdydd CF24 3AA United Kingdom Y Deyrnas Unedig tel: +44 (0)29 2087 4861 ffôn : +44 (0)29 2087 4861 email: hardistyar(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:hardistyar@cardiff.ac.uk> ebost: hardistyar(a)caerdydd.ac.uk<mailto:hardistyar@caerdydd.ac.uk> skype: alex.hardisty skype: alex.hardisty orcid id: orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310>

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by Alex Hardisty 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

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CLEF2021: Call-for-Labs-Participation
by ajoly 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

[Apologies for multiple postings] CLEF 2021 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visualization 21 - 24 September 2021, Bucharest - Romania *** CALL FOR LAB PARTICIPATION *** Conference website: http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/ <http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/> CLEF 2021 is the 12th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems. It consists of a peer-reviewed conference (see the separate call for papers) and a set of 12 Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems: 1. ARQMath: Answer Retrieval for Questions on Math 2. BioASQ: Large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering 3. CheckThat!: Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News 4. ChEMU: Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University lab 5. CLEF eHealth: medical content retrieval to support decision making 6. eRisk: Early Risk prediction on the Internet 7. ImageCLEF: Multimedia Retrieval Challenge in CLEF 8. LifeCLEF: Multimedia Life Species Identification 9. LiLAS: Living Labs for Academic Search 10. PAN: Digital Text Forensics and Stylometry 11. SimpleText-202: (Re)Telling right scientific stories to non-specialists via text simplification 12. Touché: Argument Retrieval *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Lab Registration Opens: 16 November 2020 Registration closes: 30 April 2021 End Evaluation Cycle: 7 May 2021 Working Notes papers due: 28 May 2021 Camera Ready Copy: 2 July 2021 *** PARTICIPATION *** Lab participants must register for the Labs via the CLEF website: http://clef2021-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ <http://clef2021-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/> *** LABS *** 1. ARQMath: Answer Retrieval for Questions on Math ARQMath aims to advance math-aware search and the semantic analysis of mathematical notation and texts. Task 1 - Answer Retrieval: Given a math question post, return relevant answer posts. Task 2 - Formula Search: Given a formula in a math question post, return relevant formulas from both question and answer posts. Lab Coordination: Richard Zanibbi (Rochester Institute of Technology), Douglas Oard (University of Maryland), Anurag Agarwal (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Lab Website: https://www.cs.rit.edu/~dprl/ARQMath <https://www.cs.rit.edu/~dprl/ARQMath> Twitter: @ARQMath1 2. BioASQ: Large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering The aim of the BioASQ Lab is to push the research frontier towards systems that use the diverse and voluminous information available online to respond directly to the information needs of biomedical scientists. Task 1 - Task A: Large-Scale Online Biomedical Semantic Indexing. Task 2 - Task B: Biomedical Semantic Question Answering. Task 3 - Task MESINESP: Medical Semantic Indexing In Spanish. Task 4 - Task Synergy: Question Answering for COVID-19. Lab Coordination: Anastasia Krithara (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"), Anastasios Nentidis (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), George Paliouras (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"), Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), and Marta Villegas (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Lab Website: http://www.bioasq.org/workshop2021 <http://www.bioasq.org/workshop2021> Twitter: @BioASQ 3. CheckThat!: Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News The CheckThat! Lab aims at fighting misinformation and disinformation in social media, in political debates, and in the news, with focus on three tasks (in English, Arabic, German and Spanish): check-worthiness estimation, detecting previously fact-checked claims, and fake news detection. Task 1 - Check-worthiness estimation: given a piece of text, detect whether it is worth fact-checking. Task 2 - Detecting previously fact-checked claims: given a check-worthy claim in the form of a tweet, and a set of previously-checked claims, determine whether the claim has been previously fact-checked. Task 3 - Fake new detection: this task has two subtasks: multi-class fake news detection, and domain identification of fake news articles. Lab Coordination: Preslav Nakov, Giovanni da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barron-Cedeno,Ruben Miguez, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Nikolay Babulkov, Alex Nikolov, Thomas Mandl, Julia Maria Struß, Gautam Kishore Shahi, and Sandip Modha Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clef2021-checkthat <https://sites.google.com/view/clef2021-checkthat> 4. ChEMU: Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University lab ChEMU (Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University) lab aims to advance the state-of-the-arts in information extraction over chemical patents, and provide the opportunity to address the fundamental NLP task - anaphora resolution in the context of chemical patents. Task 1 - Chemical Reaction Reference Resolution: given a description of a chemical reaction, the task requires identification of other chemical reactions or general conditions that it refers to. Task 2 - Anaphora Resolution: this task focuses on expression-level references, and requires identification of reference resolution between expressions in chemical patents. Lab Coordination: Karin Verspoor (The University of Melbourne), Tim Baldwin (The University of Melbourne), Trevor Cohn (The University of Melbourne), Saber Akhondi (Elsevier), Jiayuan He (The University of Melbourne), Christian Druckenbrodt (Elsevier), Camilo Thorne (Elsevier), Biaoyan Fang (The University of Melbourne), Hiyori Yoshikawa (The University of Melbourne), and Zenan Zhai (The University of Melbourne) Lab Website: http://chemu.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ <http://chemu.eng.unimelb.edu.au/> 5. CLEF eHealth: medical content retrieval to support decision making This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making. Task 1 - Information Extraction from Noisy Text: participants will identify and classify Named Entities in written ultrasonography reports, containing misspellings and inconsistencies, from a major public hospital in Argentina. Task 2 - Consumer Health Search: participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient’s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information credibility, quality, and suitability. Lab Coordination: Laura Alonso Alemany (Univ. Nacional de Córdoba), Viviana Cotik (Univ. de Buenos Aires), Lorraine Goeuriot (Univ. J.Fourier), Liadh Kelly (Maynooth University), Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca), and Hanna Suominen (Australian National Univ.) Lab Website: https://clefehealth.imag.fr/ <https://clefehealth.imag.fr/> Twitter: @clefhealth 6. eRisk: Early Risk prediction on the Internet The main purpose of eRisk is to explore issues of evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and other processes related to early risk detection. Task 1 - Early detection of pathological gambling: this task will pursue early detection models for emitting alerts on users starting to develop this mental health problem. Task 2 - Early detection of self-harm: this task will pursue early detection models for emitting alerts on users starting to develop this mental health problem. Task 3 - Depression-level estimation: in this task, participants are expected to develop models to automatically fill a standard depression questionnaire based on the user's writings. Lab Coordination: Javier Parapar (Universidade da Coruña), Patricia Martín-Rodilla (Universidade da Coruña), David E. Losada (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), and Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano) Lab Website: https://erisk.irlab.org/ <https://erisk.irlab.org/> Twitter: @earlyrisk 7. ImageCLEF: Multimedia Retrieval Challenge in CLEF ImageCLEF 2021, the Multimedia Retrieval Challenge in CLEF, is set to promote the evaluation of technologies for annotation, indexing, classification and retrieval of multi-modal data, with the objective of providing information access to large collections of images in various usage scenarios and domains. Task 1 - ImageCLEFmedical: participants will be requested to develop solutions for automatically identifying individual components from which captions are composed in Radiology Objects in COntext images and to combine natural language processing and computer vision for answering a medical question based on a visual image content. Task 2 - ImageCLEFcoral: requires participants to automatically segment and label a collection of coral images that can be used in combination to create 3-dimensional models of an underwater environment. Task 3 - ImageCLEFdrawnUI: requires participants to detect rectangular bounding boxes corresponding to website User Interface elements from hand-drawn and real-world images. Task 4 - ImageCLEFaware: participants are required to provide automatic rankings of photographic user profiles in a series of real-life situations such as searching for a job, accommodation, insurance, bank loans, etc. Lab Coordination: Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland), and Renaud Péteri (University of La Rochelle) Lab Website: https://www.imageclef.org/2021 <https://www.imageclef.org/2021> Twitter: @imageclef 8. LifeCLEF: Multimedia Life Species Identification LifeCLEF lab aims at boosting research on the identification and prediction of living organisms in order to solve the taxonomic gap and improve our knowledge of biodiversity. Task 1 - PlantCLEF: image-based plant species identification from herbarium sheets. Task 2 - BirdCLEF: bird species identification from bird calls and songs in audio soundscapes. Task 3 - GeoLifeCLEF: location-based species prediction based on environmental and occurrence data. Task 4 - SnakeCLEF: image-based and location-based snake identification. Lab Coordination: Alexis Joly (Inria, LIRMM), Henning Müller (HES-SO), and Hervé Goëau (CIRAD UMR AMAP) Lab Website: https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2021 <https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2021> 9. LiLAS: Living Labs for Academic Search In the LiLAS lab, we would like to bring together IR researchers interested in the online evaluation of academic search systems. The goal is to foster knowledge on improving the search for academic resources like literature, research data, and the interlinking between these resources. Task 1 - Ad-hoc Search Ranking: the participants get access to the LIVIVO corpus that consists of about 80 million documents from more than 50 data sources in multiple languages from the Life Sciences. Task 2 - Research Data Recommendations: the goal is to provide recommendations of research data that are relevant and related to the publication the user is currently viewing. The data for this task is taken from the academic search system GESIS Search from the Social Sciences. Lab Coordination: Philipp Schaer (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences), Johann Schaible (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), and Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences) Lab Website: https://clef-lilas.github.io <https://clef-lilas.github.io/> 10. PAN: Digital Text Forensics and Stylometry PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics and stylometry, studying how to quantify writing style and improve authorship technology. Task 1 - Cross-domain Authorship Verification: given two texts, determine if they are written by the same author. Task 2 - Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis: given a text written by two or more authors, find all positions of writing style change. Task 3 - Profiling Haters on Twitter: given a user's Twitter timeline, determine if they spread hate speech. Lab Coordination: Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València), Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean), and Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Lab Website: https://pan.webis.de/ <https://pan.webis.de/> Twitter: @webis_de 11. SimpleText-202: (Re)Telling right scientific stories to non-specialists via text simplification SimpleText aims at contributing to making science more open & accessible via automatic generation of simplified summaries of scientific documents. Pilot Task 1 - Searching for background information: given a scientific text, provide background information from an external source to help a user to understand it (definitions, context,…). Pilot Task 2 - Text Simplification: given a short scientific text (e.g. abstract), generate its simplified version. Lab Coordination: Liana Ermakova, Patrice Bellot, Pavel Braslavski, Jaap Kamps, Josiane Mothe, Diana Nurbakova, and Eric San-Juan Lab Website: https://www.irit.fr/simpleText/ <https://www.irit.fr/simpleText/> Twitter: @SimpletextW 12. Touché: Argument Retrieval Touché has been designed with the goal to establish a collaborative platform for researchers in the field of argument retrieval and to provide tools for developing and evaluating argument retrieval approaches. Task 1 - Conversational Argument Retrieval: given a query on a controversial topic, the task is to retrieve relevant arguments from a focused crawl of online debate portals. Task 2 - Comparative Argument Retrieval: given a comparative question, the task is to retrieve and rank documents from the ClueWeb12 that help to answer the comparative question with arguments and help to make an informed decision. Lab Coordination: Alexander Bondarenko (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Lukas Gienapp (Leipzig University), Maik Fröbe (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Meriem Beloucif (Universität Hamburg), Yamen Ajjour (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Alexander Panchenko (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), Chris Biemann (Universität Hamburg), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Henning Wachsmuth (Paderborn University), Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), and Matthias Hagen (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Lab Website: https://touche.webis.de <https://touche.webis.de/> Twitter: @webis_de *** ORGANIZERS *** * General Chairs * Bogdan Ionescu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA * Program Chairs * Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Birger Larsen, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Evaluation Lab Chairs * Alexis Joly, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Maria Maistro, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Florina Piroi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Publicity Chairs * Liviu Ștefan Daniel, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania Mihai Dogariu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Outreach Program Chairs * Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University, China - Asian Liaison Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Mexico - Central American Liaison Fabio A. Gonzalez, National University of Colombia, Colombia - South American Liaison Ben Herbst, Praelexis, South Africa - African Liaison Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada - North American Liaison * Industry & Sponsorship Chairs * Șeila Abdulamit, Vodafone, Romania Mihai-Gabriel Constantin, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania Bogdan Boteanu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Website & Social Media Chairs * Denisa Ionașcu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Finance Chair * Ion Marghescu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Proceedings Chairs * Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padua, Italy Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Ital -- Alexis Joly

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Webinar - Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology (DCAT)
by announce＠dublincore.net 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

[apologies for cross-posting] DCMI is pleased to announce a new webinar, scheduled for Thursday November 12th 2020. Peter Winstanley will talk about the history of DCAT and its underlying philosophy. The W3C Data Catalogue ontology (DCAT) is a recommendation for how to publish data catalogues on the web. It can be used by itself, of form the basis of a richer application profile. Although originally focusing on open government data, the ontology and application profiles are now seeing use in a wider set of uses. Peter is an ontologist with Semantic Arts and co-Chair of the W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group The webinar will take place on November 12th 2020, 16:00 UTC Full details, including a time-zone converter and instructions on how to join the webinar: https://bit.ly/3mHPAnq Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)

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Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections
by Austin 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear Colleagues, iDigBio is pleased to announce a 7-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course. Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators. All collection types (insects, birds, fish, fossils, plants, etc.), collection settings (natural history museums, universities, field stations, government agencies, etc.), and locations on Earth are welcome to apply, though the scheduled time might make it difficult for people in some locations to participate. Discussions and presentations will be in English. If you are part of a herbarium, you might like to wait to take the “Strategic Planning for Herbaria” course that we will offer in spring 2021 in collaboration with the Society of Herbarium Curators. However, those from herbaria are also welcome to apply for this course, which will have a more diverse set of collections in attendance. The “Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” course will occur on Mondays from 3:00–4:00 Eastern Time from November 2–December 14, 2020. We anticipate that the course will require 3–5 hours of work per week, including the 1 hour in-class. The goal is to produce a short (5–10 pages) strategic plan for each represented biodiversity collection. Each plan will address vision, mission, stakeholders, strategies, goals, objectives, evaluation, and sustainability, among other things. The process is at least as valuable as the product, and you might find that the exercises benefit your organization in unexpected ways. We have previously worked on strategic planning with over 90 biodiversity collections. The course will be capped at a size to ensure adequate opportunities to participate in discussions. We are looking for creative, committed participants who can help us to build momentum for this as an annual event. If multiple individuals from a biodiversity collection are interested in participating in the course, we ask that one formally apply and the others participate in the out-of-class exercises and brainstorming sessions. A draft syllabus of the course is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKx33ieVCBeZISqw8zg4r7iRKG6dVnsOJebmK1q… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKx33ieVCBeZISqw8zg4r7iRKG6dVnsOJebmK1q…> To apply, please fill out this short Google Form (https://forms.gle/HK4nQUXMWCi8kqnDA <https://forms.gle/HK4nQUXMWCi8kqnDA>) by October 26. Admission decisions will be made shortly thereafter. Please share this announcement with relevant communities. With best regards, David Jennings (iDigBio’s Project Manager) and Austin Mast (Director of iDigBio’s Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science Domain) Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 · amast(a)bio.fsu.edu · he/him

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Share your thoughts: Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections
by Austin 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

We are pleased to announce the development of a new, twice monthly event: Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections. The goal of the event is to catalyze excellence in all forms of citizen science involving biodiversity collections by scheduling engaging speakers on high priority topics with time for group discussion. The biodiversity collections community includes those organizations (natural history museums, universities, field stations, government agencies, etc.) curating such resources as insects on pins, plants on sheets, fish in jars, and fossils in drawers. Topics could include online engagement tools, ethical considerations, the future of the field, data validation, resources from citizen science associations, citizen science in formal education settings, and much more. All participants are welcomed, whatever their location on Earth, institutional setting, career stage, or credentials. However, speakers will be asked to pitch their talk to an audience that has some affiliation with, or deep interest in, biodiversity collections. And talks and conversations are likely to be in English. Register your interest and express your priorities and preferences for this event at https://forms.gle/MsQgyQ2xfTtjJTxQ6 <https://forms.gle/MsQgyQ2xfTtjJTxQ6> While completing the survey you can express an interest in joining the organizing committee. The event is being initiated by iDigBio, the US National Science Foundation's National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections. And feel free to share this announcement with others. With best regards, Austin Mast (Florida State University) and Libby Elwood (University of Florida), co-organizers Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 · amast(a)bio.fsu.edu · he/him

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