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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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by Christy Semmens 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

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CERF 2017 data session
by Anne Thessen 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Hello I wanted to let the TDWG folk know about a data-oriented session I'm leading at the upcoming CERF conference (http://www.erf.org/cerf-2017-biennial-conference). You can learn more about the session here https://cerf.confex.com/cerf/2017/webprogrampreliminary/Session1284.html. Anyone who is working on coastal or estuarine related data sets may want to participate. I'm planning to submit an abstract on some of the machine learning work I've been doing. Please feel free to pass this message around to anyone who might be interested. You can submit your abstract and register here http://www.erf.org/cerf-2017-biennial-conference Thanks! -- Anne E. Thessen, Ph.D. The Data Detektiv, Owner and Founder Ronin Institute, Research Scholar 443.225.9185

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3 yr Researcher / PhD position at Senckenberg/BiK-F - automated trait and taxon recognition from plant photos and herbarium scans
by Marco Schmidt 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear TDWG list subscribers, we have an interesting position to be filled at Senckenberg/BiK-F in Frankfurt, Germany: http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/stellenausschreibungen/11-17008_dee… The succesful candidate will be working on automated trait and taxon recognition from plant photos and herbarium scans using deep learning approaches. Deadline for applications is March 30, 2017. Best regards, Marco GoogleScholar ( http://goo.gl/htDZUL ) ResearchGate ( http://goo.gl/qZ6S0I ) AfricanPlants ( http://goo.gl/27KJgv ) WestAfricanVegetation ( http://goo.gl/pDSfC6 ) Dr. Marco Schmidt Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt am Main Germany +49 69 7542 1859 (Data & Modelling Centre) +49 69 97075 1615 (Botany Dept.) Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Rechtsfähiger Verein gemäß § 22 BGB Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt Direktorium: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, Hon. Prof. Dr. h. c. (STU) Rolf Pfrengle, Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Prof. Dr. Uwe Fritz, PD Dr. Ingrid Kröncke; Präsidentin: Dr. h.c. Beate Heraeus; Aufsichtsbehörde: Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Ordnungsamt)

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1st Darwin Core Hour - 7 February 2017 @ 1 PM EST, 6 PM UTC
by Deborah Paul 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hello Everyone, You're invited! To: Darwin Core Hour 7 February 2017 @ 1 PM EST, 6 PM UTC Details: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-webinar-series Got questions? Get answers! Provide answers! For the best Darwin Core Hour experience, add your input here Darwin Core Hour Form https://goo.gl/forms/YCaJ8zjTaW3n6BKr1 Chapter Abstract In this first webinar in the Darwin Core Hour series, the basics of how Darwin Core functions in the biodiversity community as a dynamic standard will be covered. Topics will include what the standard consists of, how to use it, how it can be changed, sources of information, and where to go for help. Presenter: John Wieczorek Your input: 1) improves Darwin Core documentation (examples, definitions) 2) helps those in the Standards community address gaps and implementation of the standard terms 3) provides a forum for everyone to learn about each others data mapping, data sharing, software needs, standards issues and insights. 4) facilitates higher data quality! Go here for details: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-webinar-series In anticipation of our 1st Darwin Core (Happy) Hour, Debbie Paul, et al 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 for hints on best experience (hint: use headsets!) -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison, SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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DCMI Webinar: Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits
by DCMI Announce 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

*******PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******* *Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *===========================================================* *:: Presenters:* Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Newton Calegari, Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimarães *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/20170406-en) *:: Date:* Thursday, 6 April 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017DataBP *===========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* There is a growing interest in the publication and consumption of data on the Web. Government and non-governmental organizations already provide a variety of data on the Web, some open, others with access restrictions, covering a variety of domains such as education, economics, e-commerce and scientific data. Developers, journalists, and others manipulate this data to create visualizations and perform data analysis. Experience in this area reveals that a number of important issues need to be addressed in order to meet the requirements of both publishers and data consumers. In this webinar we will discuss the key challenges faced by publishers and data consumers when sharing data on the Web. We will also introduce the W3C Best Practices set (https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/)to address these challenges. Finally, we will discuss the benefits of engaging data publishers in the use of Best Practices, as well as improving the way data sets are made available on the Web. *ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:* *Bernadette Farias Lóscio* holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She worked as an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Ceará and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Manchester. Since 2010, she has been an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. In recent years, she has provided consulting services to W3C Brazil and to the City Hall of Recife in projects in the Open Data area. It is one of the publishers of Data on the Web Best Practices, a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which offers good practices related to the publication and use of data on the Web. Its main areas of interest are: Web Data, Data Open, Semantic Web, Data Integration, Web of Things and Big Data. *Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimarães* is responsible for the Institutional Relations of the Center for Studies on Web Technologies (Ceweb.br) and W3C Brasil. He is a specialist in Negotiation for the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and a Master in International Relations from San Tiago Dantas. He is a member of the Center for Studies and International Analysis and Fellow of the OAS Open Government Program in the Americas. It is one of the publishers of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices document. Research on open government, international relations and foreign policy, with experience in the work of subnational governments in the area of web, open data and Internet governance. *Newton Calegari* holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Digital Intelligence and Design Technologies (TIDD) from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He is a project leader at the Center for the Study of Web Technologies at NIC.br (Ceweb.br) and at the W3C Brazil office. He is one of the editors of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices recommendation. Research and work in the area of Semantic Web, Open Web Platform, standardization and emerging Web technologies.

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DCMI publishes Call for Participation for DC-2017 (Washington, D.C.)
by DCMI Announce 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* *DC-2017 Call for Participation* *Advancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability* DCMI has published the *Call for Participation* <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp> for the DC-2017 <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/index> *International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications* to be held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. The conference will be collocated with the ASIS&T Annual Meeting <https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2017/>. 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 - Post-Conference Workshops. Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, project reports, presentations and posters are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment and best practices: - 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* page at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp on the DC-2017 website <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/>.

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DCMI Webinar: From MARC silos to Linked Data silos? Data models for bibliographic Linked Data
by DCMI Announce 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

*******PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******* *From MARC silos to Linked Data silos? Data models for bibliographic Linked Data* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *===========================================================* *:: Presenter:* Osma Suominen *:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EST (UTC 15:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/suominen-2017) *:: Date:* Tuesday, 28 February 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017suominen *===========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* Many libraries are experimenting with publishing their metadata as Linked Data to open up bibliographic silos, usually based on MARC records, to the Web. The libraries who have published Linked Data have all used different data models for structuring their bibliographic data. Some are using a FRBR-based model where Works, Expressions and Manifestations are represented separately. Others have chosen basic Dublin Core, dumbing down their data into a lowest common denominator format. The proliferation of data models limits the reusability of bibliographic data. In effect, libraries have moved from MARC silos to Linked Data silos of incompatible data models. There is currently no universal model for how to represent bibliographic metadata as Linked Data, even though many attempts for such a model have been made.</p> In this webinar, you’ll see: - a survey of published bibliographic Linked Data, the data models proposed for representing bibliographic data as RDF, and tools used for conversion from MARC records - an analysis of different use cases for bibliographic Linked Data and how they affect the data model - recommendations for choosing a data model We also present efforts at the National Library of Finland to open up our bibliographic metadata, including the national bibliography Fennica, the national discography Viola and the article database Arto, as Linked Data while trying to learn from the examples of others. We are setting up a conversion process from MARC records to BIBFRAME and Schema.org compliant RDF, which we are going to publish as Linked Data using various technologies including a SPARQL endpoint, HDT compressed RDF dumps and a Linked Data Fragments API. *This webinar is an extended, in-depth version of the SWIB16 conference presentation ”From MARC silos to Linked Data silos?”* *Minimum Experience Level: * Basic familiarity of bibliographic metadata and Linked Data assumed *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* *Osma Suominen* works as an information systems specialist at the National Library of Finland. His current activities are centered around the publishing of bibliographic data, including the Finnish national bibliography Fennica, as Linked Data. He is also one of the creators of the Finto.fi <http://finto.fi/> thesaurus and ontology service and is leading development of the Skosmos vocabulary browser used in Finto. Osma Suominen earned his doctoral degree at Aalto University while doing research on semantic portals and quality of controlled vocabularies within the FinnONTO series of projects. His past accomplishments include the Skosify vocabulary analysis and quality improvement tool, and data.aalto.fi, the Linked Data service of Aalto University.

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TDWG 2017 meeting announcement and call for symposia
by Stanley Blum 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Dear TDWG list subscribers, (Please excuse our cross-posting.) We are excited to announce that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Museum of Nature will host the 2017 Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) conference in Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 1 - Oct. 6. Below, we describe the conference and solicit proposals for workshops and symposia. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017. A call for contributed papers and posters will be made in April 2017 after the symposia and workshops have been selected and announced. Standards for the description and exchange of biodiversity information help promote research, support decision-making for conservation and planning, and provide a means of communicating observations across taxa, sub-disciplines, and political boundaries. The annual TDWG conference serves two purposes: - it is a forum for developing, refining and extending standards in response to new challenges and opportunities; and - it is a showcase for biodiversity informatics - much of which relies on the specifications provided by TDWG and other standards organizations. Our theme this year is "Data Integration in a Big Data Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments". For more information on the conference, including links to accommodations, please visit https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017. We invite you to submit proposals for workshops and symposia, which can be organized around already established themes, or which can be used to explore emerging topics of interest. At TDWG, a symposium is typically a collection of talks, sometimes with a panel or open discussion; a workshop may have talks, but typically encourages more active engagement through training activities, or through facilitating consensus around a key issue. Symposia and workshops addressing the conference theme are encouraged, but other topics relating to biodiversity information management, integration, analysis, and standards are also welcomed, such as: - knowledge graphs - metagenomics - citizen science - semantics and ontologies (e.g., sampling, traits) - biological field station data management - collections - data visualization - data quality assessment and improvement - agricultural biodiversity - conservation informatics - illuminating dark data - phyloinformatics - ePublications - standards for image processing (e.g. computer vision for organismal identification) - wikis for biodiversity knowledge. For full consideration, please submit your proposal via email to conf-submissions(a)tdwg.org by 1 March 2017. Proposals should be fewer than 400 words, and should include the following: 1. Names, email addresses, and affiliations of all organizers. 2. Whether the proposal is for a workshop or a symposium. 3. Whether the organizer(s) will accept unsolicited abstract submissions (vs. inviting all speakers themselves). 4. Number of 90 minute sessions requested. Please note: As mentioned above, this is a call for workshop and symposium proposals only. The general call for contributed papers and posters will be announced in April 2017, after the symposia and workshops have been selected and announced. Please address questions to conference(a)tdwg.org. Sincerely, The 2017 TDWG Program Committee

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Re: [tdwg] tdwg Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2
by Paul, Deborah 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

Hi Again! Just found out abstracts for SPNHC will be accepted through Monday Jan 16th. So if you didn't make yesterday's deadline - you have just a bit more time! :-) Deb Sent from shoe (iPhone) > On Jan 14, 2017, at 6:00 AM, "tdwg-request(a)lists.tdwg.org" <tdwg-request(a)lists.tdwg.org> wrote: > > Send tdwg mailing list submissions to > tdwg(a)lists.tdwg.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tdwg-request(a)lists.tdwg.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tdwg-owner(a)lists.tdwg.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tdwg digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. TODAY is SPNHC 2017 Call for Abstracts DeAdLiNe! (Deborah Paul) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:59:54 -0500 > From: Deborah Paul <dpaul(a)fsu.edu> > To: <tdwg(a)lists.tdwg.org> > Subject: [tdwg] TODAY is SPNHC 2017 Call for Abstracts DeAdLiNe! > Message-ID: <e28c74f8-d228-3919-5cb2-a08dafe0c21e(a)fsu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed > > Hi all tdwg'rs > > TODAY is the SPNHC 2017 Abstract Deadline. You're typing like mad, > right? This year's SPNHC meeting presents a key opportunity to develop > and explore some ideas for the SPNHC-TDWG 2018 meeting. Hoping to see > lots of TDWG folks at SPNHC. > > Targeted at the collections community, TDWG areas related to natural > history collections data standards, needs and developments for exchange > formats, novel uses for ways to explore collections data and improve > data quality, are just some topics that would be great. > > ONLINE Abstract Submission Form: > http://www.spnhc2017denver.org/abstract-submission/ > > The SPNHC 2017 theme is: "The Next Generation in Best Practices." > > There are 9 symposia to choose from: > Disaster Preparedness > Impacts of Changing Regulations > Moving Collections > New Solutions to Old Problems > Public Access to Collections > Sustainability > Demo Camp > Advances in Digitization Worldwide: an iDigBio Symposium > Innovative Uses of Collections Data: an iDigBio Symposium > > SPNHC 2017: iDigBio call for SPNHC abstracts > https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-call-abstracts SPNHC 2017 is > in Denver, CO from June 18 - 24. See you there! > > Best, > Deb and Shelley, et al at iDigBio > (please excuse cross-postings) > > -- > -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar > -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist > iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison, SYNTHESYS3 Representative > Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB > Florida State University > Tallahassee, Florida 32306 > 850-644-6366 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > tdwg mailing list > tdwg(a)lists.tdwg.org > http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg > > > ------------------------------ > > End of tdwg Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2 > ************************************

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