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Webinar - Wikiproject COVID-19
by announce＠dublincore.net 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

[apologies for cross-posting] DCMI is pleased to announce the first in a new series of webinars! Tiago Lubiana will talk about the Wikiproject COVID-19. This project is working to curate and organization information about COVID-19 on Wikidata and Wikipedia. The scale and pace of a global pandemic have highlighted issues around the consistent structuring of information, such as the scope of geographically-bound statements and the time period of outbreaks, along with challenges for quickly updating information on pages across multiple languages. The Wikiproject collaboration has created data models for relevant concepts, using ShEx entity schemas that can be validated via SPARQL queries. This webinar will introduce the Wikiproject and show examples of the data models at work. Tiago Lubiana is a PhD candidate in bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo and curator at Mee (an information startup in São Paulo). The webinar will take place on June 25, 2020, 11:00 UTC Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join the webinar: https://www.dublincore.org/news/2020/05-29-webinar-wikiproject-covid-19/ Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)

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Mini workshop: Building Next-Generation Data Infrastructure for Plant Phenology
by Stan Blum 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Mini workshop: Building Next-Generation Data Infrastructure for Plant Phenology Workshop overview What new software tools would you like to see for plant phenological data and research? Are there data resources you wish you could access or use but are not sure how (or that don’t even exist yet)? What frontiers in phenological research could new data and software support? Our team[1] has been developing methods and tools for integrating, mobilizing, and analyzing plant phenological data, such as the Plant Phenology Ontology <https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00517> and a prototype data portal <https://plantphenology.org/> that integrates various in-situ and historical datasets from around the globe. We are also investigating methods for generating and integrating new phenological data from digital herbarium records and community scientists’ photographs from BudBurst <https://budburst.org/> and iNaturalist <https://www.inaturalist.org/>. Now, we would value your thoughts about 1) how to make plant phenological data more accessible and easier to use; 2) which high-value phenological datasets are still missing; 3) what kinds of analyses you wish you could do with phenological data; and 4) what barriers are limiting large-scale plant phenological research. We will be hosting a virtual, 90-minute, mini-workshop on Wednesday, June 17, from 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (see in your local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phenology+mini-wo…>), and we would love to hear what you think about these issues. Your feedback will help guide efforts to develop a next generation of phenological data and tools. We welcome participants from outside of North America, too, and we recognize that 3:00 PM in the eastern U.S. might not be a great time for researchers from other continents. Therefore, if we have sufficient international registrants, we will hold one or more additional workshops at alternative times to better accommodate work schedules in other parts of the world. Even if you cannot attend the virtual workshop but you would still like to share your thoughts with us, you can instead choose to complete a brief survey to let us know what you think. So, if these issues are of interest to you, please complete the short registration form and get in touch! Afterwards, we will generate a report summarizing the results of the workshop and share it with all participants. Registration To register for the workshop or to let us know you’d like to complete a brief survey instead, please fill out the short registration form: https://forms.gle/tCy7eSQq33KjyuMF6. Tentative agenda Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Time: 3:00-4:30 PM EDT (2:00 PM CDT, 1:00 PM MDT, 12:00 PM PDT, see in your local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phenology+mini-wo…> ) 3:00 PM Introductory remarks, workshop overview and scope. 3:10 PM Current landscape of plant phenological data, tools, and use cases; survey interests of attendees. 3:40 Breakout group session 1: Discuss key issues in small groups of no more than six participants. 3:00 Breakout group session 2. 4:20 PM Reconvene as a full group, wrap up. [1] Brian Stucky, Rob Guralnick and Daijiang Li (Florida Museum of Natural History); Ramona Walls (University of Arizona); Ellen Denny (USA National Phenology Network); John Deck (Biocode, LLC); Jennifer Schwarz and Taran Lichtenberger (Chicago Botanic Garden); Carrie Seltzer (iNaturalist)

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survey on research priorities about pathogen spill-over
by Wouter Addink 29 May '20

29 May '20

Hi all, I forward you this message from the *CETAF-DiSSCo COVID-19 Task Force.* Apologies for cross-posting. Kind regards, Wouter Addink Dear Colleague We are writing on behalf of a COVID Task Force, a CETAF-DiSSCo joint action (CETAF = Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, https://cetaf.org/; DiSSCo = Distributed System of Scientific Collections, https://www.dissco.eu/) As a group of researchers working in different fields, we recently established a COVID Task Force, with the aim to help clarify the links between biodiversity, human pressure and the origin and causes of coronaviruses and similar disease spill-over, as well as to identify the actions that should be put in place to complement the efforts made in other disciplines. This effort is equally important to anticipate and prevent the occurrence and propagation of zoonotic infectious diseases worldwide. One of the first tangible actions we want to pursue is a horizon scanning exercise among stakeholders to identify priority questions that scientists should explore to reach a better understanding of pathogen origins, spill-over processes and their ecological correlates. The answers to these questions are needed to clarify the role that certain animal species play with respect to the pandemics such as the current one, and the environmental conditions that may facilitate these phenomena, from wildlife trade and consumption to habitat loss or degradation. We aim to publish, in the peer-reviewed literature, a list of questions that would form the basis to steer future research work. Given your expertise in the field, we would be most grateful if you could *supply questions that you see as priorities* for research funding. The form has space for up to twenty questions but feel free to send as many as deemed important. Many thanks in advance for your important contribution. Participation in the survey is on voluntary base and you are not obliged to answer all the questions. Your answers to the survey will be treated anonymously. The contribution of respondents will be acknowledged in the publication only if you leave your name. We would also greatly appreciate if you could circulate this message to colleagues who you think might be interested. We apologise in advance for any cross-posting. This is the link to the Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfh7ZEPY60o0pByqYuoVtCt_eyeo6ikDXr… Best regards For the CETAF-DiSSCo COVID Task Force prof. Danilo Russo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy prof. Sandro Bertolino, University of Turin, Italy prof. Maarten Vanhove, Hasselt University, Belgium Dr. Séverine Thys, Ghent University, Belgium

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More photos - from TDWG2005
by Arthur Chapman 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

Hi All I have added some new groups for images from TDWG Meetings. I am still uploading images to these, but I will get there. They include: PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN PHOTOS TO THESE GROUPS IF YOU HAVE ANY TDWG2005, St Petersburg, Russia https://www.flickr.com/groups/14715976@N21/ TDWG2008, Fremantle, Australia https://www.flickr.com/groups/14743068@N22/ TDWG1992, Xalapa, Mexico https://www.flickr.com/groups/14691136@N20/ TDWG2001, Sydney, Australia https://www.flickr.com/groups/14668208@N25/ 2002, Indaiatuba, Brazil https://www.flickr.com/groups/14679484@N24/ I am adding my photos there, but I invite all of you to add your relevant photos. Cheers Arthur

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TDWG8 (Xalapa 1992)
by Arthur Chapman 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Hi everyone I have added photos from the TDWG8/IOPI-2 meeting in Xalapa, Mexico in November 1992. I have been able to name most people - just a couple I haven't - if you know who the unnamed ones are, please let me know - or add a comment https://www.flickr.com/groups/14678414@N24/pool/ Cheers Arthur

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LifeCLEF 2020 - Cooperative research challenges
by ajoly 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

------------------------------------------------------------ LifeCLEF 2020 - Call for participation ------------------------------------------------------------ [Please distribute, Sorry for multiple copies] We cordially invite you to participate in the seventh edition of the LifeCLEF challenge (http://www.lifeclef.org <http://www.lifeclef.org/>). LifeCLEF is one of the labs of CLEF 2020 (https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/ <https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/>), which will be held in Thessaloniki Greece (22-25 September 2020). Motivation: Building accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution and the evolution of species is essential for a sustainable development of humanity, as well as for biodiversity conservation. However, the burden of the routine identification of plants and animals in the field is strongly penalizing the aggregation of new data and knowledge. Identifying and naming living plants or animals is actually almost impossible for the general public and often a difficult task for professionals and naturalists. Bridging this gap is a key challenge towards enabling effective biodiversity monitoring systems. The LifeCLEF evaluation campaign aims at boosting and evaluating the advances in this domain since 2011. The 2020 edition of LifeCLEF proposes four data-oriented challenges related to the identification and prediction of biodiversity: Challenge 1 - BirdCLEF <https://www.imageclef.org/BirdCLEF2020>: Bird species recognition in audio soundscapes Challenge 2 - GeoLifeCLEF <https://www.imageclef.org/GeoLifeCLEF2020>: Location-Based Species Prediction (based on environmental and occurrence data) Challenge 3 - PlantCLEF <https://www.imageclef.org/PlantCLEF2020>: Cross-domain plant identification (from herbarium specimens to plant pictures) Challenge 4 - SnakeCLEF <https://www.imageclef.org/SnakeCLEF2020>: Image-based snake identification Schedule (tentative, could be delayed a few weeks due to the covid19): Beginning of May 2020: submission of runs by the participants Mid-May 2020: release of processed results by the task organizers (online) End of May 2020: deadline for submission of working note papers by the participants End of June 2020: camera ready working note papers of participants and organizers <> 22-25 Sept 2020: CLEF 2020 <https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/> Thessaloniki, Greece Registration: LifeCLEF relies on the AIcrowd <https://www.aicrowd.com/> open platform for registration, submission and results management. Participants have to first create a crowdAI account (https://www.aicrowd.com/participants/sign_up <https://www.aicrowd.com/participants/sign_up>), and then go to the Challenges tab to access a specific LifeCLEF challenge. In order to be compliant with the CLEF registration requirements, please edit your profile by providing the following information : First name, Last name, Affiliation, Address, City. Regarding the username, please choose a name that represents your team/organism since it will be used for reference purposes. Reward: The winner of each of the four LifeCLEF 2020 challenges will be offered a cloud credit grants of 5k USD as part of Microsoft's AI for earth <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-for-earth> program. Credits: _______________________________________________ The Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) Initiative mailing list clef(a)dei.unipd.it <mailto:clef@dei.unipd.it> http://www.clef-initiative.eu/ <http://www.clef-initiative.eu/> To (un-)subscribe, please, write to Nicola Ferro (ferro(a)dei.unipd.it <mailto:ferro@dei.unipd.it>)

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DCMI 2020 postponed - alternative virtual event announced
by announce＠dublincore.net 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

[apologies for cross-posting] This is an important announcement regarding the DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata, Ottawa. With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term, the DCMI 2020 Organising Committee has taken the decision to postpone the DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata until Autumn 2021. We have now closed the Call For Participation for this year, and will write to those who had already submitted a proposal. We apologise to those of you who may have begun preparing for this, and trust that you understand that this is unavoidable. Now for some more positive news! We are planning an alternative event for September 2020. We are calling this DCMI Virtual. This will be a programme of virtual, invited, moderated sessions including presentations, tutorials, expert panel discussions and keynotes. We will do our best to make these as interactive as possible, with moderated question and answer sessions. More details will follow here soon: https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/ Our plan is to offer 2-3 hours of sessions in any one day, distributed over a 2 week period. We intend to alternate the sessions between two different time-periods to cater for people in different time-zones. All sessions will be recorded and made available to registered delegates. Please look out for more detailed announcements and updates in the coming days and we hope you can join us in what is bound to be a stimulating DCMI Virtual Event! Looking further ahead - we are planning to hold the conference in Ottawa in 2021 as we had planned to do in 2020, subject to confirmation at a later date. And finally, looking back, a reminder that the Proceedings from the DCMI 2019 International Conference on Metadata, Seoul, South Korea are available: https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/index.php/pubs/index Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI 2020 Organising Committee)

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RDA P15 virtual session on biodiversity data integration
by Stan Blum 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hi all, (apologies for crossposting) On Friday 27 March 1:30 pm UTC- 3:00 pm UTC there is an online session to discuss new objectives and scope for the RDA Biodiversity Data Integration interest group. If you are interested to participate you can register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJIsc-Cuqz0uyMKZ0-VObn5LX_7eNjVVog. You do not need to be a member to attend and there are no costs for attending. The agenda for the meeting: https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/biodiversity-data-integration-ig/post/rda… Starting point for the discussion are the results of the survey to get an idea about current needs, which can be found here: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3724025 Kind regards, Wouter Addink

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RDA Biodiversity Data Integration Interest group session
by Wouter Addink 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Dear TDWG members, On Friday 1:30 pm UTC- 3:00 pm UTC there is an online session to discuss new objectives and scope for the RDA Biodiversity Data Integration interest group. If you are interested to participate you can register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJIsc-Cuqz0uyMKZ0-VObn5LX_7eNjVVog. You do not need to be a member to attend and there are no costs for attending. The agenda for the meeting: https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/biodiversity-data-integration-ig/post/rda… Starting point for the discussion are the results of the survey to get an idea about current needs, which can be found here: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3724025 Kind regards, Wouter Addink -- Coördinator Research-data and E-infrastructure International Biodiversity Infrastructures Natural Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Coordination team member, Distributed System of Scientific Collections ( DiSSCo <http://dissco.eu/>) Node Manager for DiSSCo, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF <http://www.gbif.org/>) Regional representative for Europe, Biodiversity Information Standards Organisation (TDWG <http://tdwg.org/>) Chair Biodiversity Data Integration IG, Research Data Alliance (RDA <http://www.rd-alliance.org/>) Catalogue of Life Ambassador (CoL <http://www.catalogueoflife.org>) *ORCID*: 0000-0002-3090-1761 | *Linkedin*: *linkedin.com/in/wouteraddink/ <http://linkedin.com/in/wouteraddink/>* *Twitter*: @wouter99999 | *Tel*: +31 (0) 71 751 9364 wouter.addink(a)naturalis.nl - www.naturalis.nl - www.catalogueoflife.org - www.dissco.eu

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Position Announcement in Biodiversity Informatics
by Rios, Nelson 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

The Division of Informatics at The Yale Peabody Museum is seeking a Biodiversity Informatics Software Developer to join our growing team of developers and scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Details of the position and how to apply can be found at: http://bit.ly/Yale_60122BR<https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FY…> Additional inquiries may be sent to nelson.rios(a)yale.edu ---------- Nelson E. Rios Head of Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science YALE PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PO Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118 P +1 (203) 432-1844 peabody.yale.edu

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