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DC-2016 Call of Participation - Copenhagen, Denmark
by DCMI Announce 02 Jan '16

02 Jan '16

*DC-2016 Metadata Summit* I*nternational Conference & Annual Meeting* *Copenhagen, Denmark, | 13-16 October 2016* *Collocated with the ASIS&T Annual Meeting* *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* *==============================* *:: Conference Website:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/ *:: Full Call: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/cfp *==============================* *The Metadata Summit* in Copenhagen launches DCMI's 3rd decade and provides a forum for looking forward to new challenges and backward at challenges met and challenges unresolved. Every year the DCMI community gathers for both its *Annual Meeting* and its *International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications*. The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design, implementation, and best practices. While the work of the Initiative progresses throughout the year, the *Conference* and *Annual Meeting* provide the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share knowledge and experience. The Summit in Copenhagen will provide for public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work with the opportunity to come together, to compare notes, and to cast a broader light into their particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata interoperability and harmonization. *Technical Program Submissions:* The Technical Program includes peer-reviewed Papers, Project Reports, and Posters. Submission to the Technical Program will span metadata research, design, and application as a critical core value of effective information systems across domains -- science, humanities, business, government, cultural memory, and the professions. It will explore the domain-crossing intersections of metadata lifecycle documentation, publication, and management. Submissions are welcome that address the challenges of emergent areas of metadata interest including big data and big and smart metadata. The submissions to the Technical Program will be reviewed by an international panel of experts. *Submission Deadline:* 13 May 2016 *Author Notification: *22 July 2016 *Final Copy: *2 September 2016 *Professional Program Submissions:* The Professional Program is key to DCMI's education and training objective and includes *Tutorials*, *Workshops*, *Special Sessions*, and *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*. Submissions are reviewed by the *Conference Committee* in consultation with the *DCMI Education Committee*. Selections for the *Tutorial*, *Workshops*, and *Special Sessions* will be based on: (a) the *immediacy* of the submission to current education and training needs of metadata designers, implementers, and practitioners; and (b) the *potential* of the submission to advance innovation in both the discourse and best practice of metadata. *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations* is a non-peer reviewed track that encourages metadata practitioners in memory institutions, galleries, government and the private sector to showcase work demonstrating innovative approaches to metadata best practices. Selections are based on whether a work presents challenging problems in context; and, whether the authors and conference delegates can benefit from poster session interactions. *Special & Panel Sessions, Workshops, and Tutorials* * Proposal Deadline:* 15 March 2016 * Author Notification:* 15 April 2016 *Best Practice Posters & Demonstration* * Submission Deadline:* 15 July 2016 * Author Notification:* 29 July 2016 ------- Stuart Sutton DCMI Managing Director DCMI is a project of ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

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In Memoriam Dr Richard Pankhurst
by Mergen Patricia 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of TDWG we are very sorry to inform you that Richard John Pankhurst passed away on Tuesday 26 March after fighting oesophageal cancer for many years. He was a very important contributer and friend of TDWG, as can be judged from his short CV from the BioCISE directory: Dr Richard Pankhurst began his career in computing in the computer section at CERN, Geneva in 1963, and moving back to Cambridge to work on Computer-Aided Design in 1966. In 1971 he moved to the Botany School, Cambridge to begin work on his PANKEY programs for identification and key construction. This was continued at the Botany department of the Natural History Museum from 1974 until 1991, where he was for many years curator of the British herbarium, and also worked on the Flora Meso-Americana. "Biological Identification", 1978, was the first textbook on computer methods in identification. A new version of this book was published by C.U.P in 1991. Also published in that year was the Flora of the Outer Hebrides. With over 50 publications of refereed papers and books in the fields of taxonomic computing he has made major contributions to these fields. Dr. Pankhurst has been very active recently in programming and managing botanical databases (Flora Europaea, BSBI database and PANDORA) and systems with images. He was appointed Principal Scientific Officer at the RGB Edinburgh in 1991. Dr. Pankhurst served on various committees of British and international organizations, among others. Botanical Society of the British Isles, Committee for Scotland and Database Committee. Botanical Society of Scotland, Council. Taxonomic Databases Working Group, convener of Descriptors Group. International Organisation for Plant Information, co-convener of Information Systems Committee, Checklist Committee. Dr. Pankhurst was the head of the Department of Taxonomic Computing at RGBE. After his official retirement, he compiled a large database of the Rose family. His work on recording the wild flowers of the Outer Hebrides took him frequently to these remote islands on behalf of the Botanical Society of the British Isles. His interest in Taraxacum (dandelions) was acknowledged when a species found only on St. Kilda was named *Taraxacum pankhurstianum*. In Richard, not only a very important scientist was lost to our community, but also a very pleasant collaborator and friend . <patricia.mergen(a)africamuseum.be> Dr. Patricia Mergen (General Secretary of TDWG, on behalf of the Executive Committee) Head of Biodiversity Information and Cybertaxonomy Royal Museum for Central Africa Leuvensesteenweg 13 B-3080 Tervuren Belgium + 32 2 769 5 *626* patricia.mergen(a)africamuseum.be

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ASIS&T Webinar: Academic Search Engine Optimization of Web Documents for Google Scholar
by DCMI Announce 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

********* PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING ********* *ASIS&T Webinar:* Academic Search Engine Optimization of Web Documents for Google Scholar =========================== *DATE/TIME:* 9 December 2015 at 10:00am EST (World Clock: http://bit.ly/asist_webinar-Dec2015) *REGISTRATION URL: * https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/160653313167616769 *WEBINAR WEBPAGE:* https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/academic-search-engine-optimization/ *REGISTRATION FEE:* Free for ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members =========================== *ABSTRACT:* Academic search engine optimization, also known as ASEO, is the creation, publication, and modification of scholarly literature in a way that makes it easier for academic search engines to access, interpret, and rank scholarly documents. Additionally, search-engine friendly academic documents are ones that are written, formatted, organized, and labeled for people who use academic search engines. Successful ASEO implementation communicates. What do librarians, information architects, and academic professionals need to know about building search-engine friendly documents for Google Scholar and other academic search engines? In this webinar, SEO pioneer and veteran Shari Thurow will debunk some common myths and misconceptions about academic SEO and show you how to properly optimize different types of scholarly web documents. Topics covered in this webinar include: Academic SEO overview - 4 fundamental building blocks of academic SEO - How to optimize individual document types (PDF, Word, HTML, etc.) - The role of metadata - Creating and optimizing wayfinders for academic literature - Common myths & misconceptions This webinar includes real-time examples and a downloadable bibliography for academic SEO resources. *PRESENTER:* *Shari Thurow*, Founder & SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive (http://www.search-usability.com) Shari Thurow is a contributing editor for the ASLIB Journal of Information Management. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Information Architecture Institute (IAI) and the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). She is currently the founder and SEO director at Omni Marketing Interactive, a full-service SEO, website usability, information architecture, and web design firm. Shari has designed and promoted sites since 1995 and is a pioneer in the area of search engine-friendly website design. She is the author of Search Engine Visibility and When Search Meets Web Usability. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar. View System Requirements: http://support.citrixonline.com/s/G2W/Help/SystemRequirements

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Workshop: Promoting Synergy in the Innovative Use of Environmental Data
by Simpson, Annie 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Colleagues: NatureServe and USGS are co-organizing an NSF-funded workshop that is convening a broad cross section of fields – federal natural resource management and conservation agencies, academics, NGOs, private sector, citizen science leaders – to engage in a needs assessment for generating national biogeospatial data layers. This workshop, which has the lengthy title of "Promoting synergy in the innovative use of environmental data across academia, non-profits, local and state governments, industry and the Federal government," is intended to provide a big step forward in identifying regional, national, and continental scale spatial datasets on biodiversity, vegetation, climate, and environment to support cross jurisdictional decision making. It is being held in Washington, DC, this December 2-4, just 2 weeks from now. We have commitments already from a broad and diverse set of leaders among the major federal agencies, so it will be a great relationship building opportunity as well. There are only a few spaces left, but if you would be available to come to DC to engage in these national scale data issues, we would be pleased to have your participation. More info and the registration button can be found here: http://www.natureserve.org/news-events/events/promoting-synergy-innovative-… Very limited travel funding is still available for non-federal participants. Please email healy_hamilton(a)natureserve.org for details. Interested federal employees should contact Annie_Simpson(a)usgs.gov. Best regards, Healy Hamilton, NatureServe <http://www.natureserve.org/> Chief Scientist Gerald (Stinger) Guala, Director of BISON <http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/> and ITIS <http://www.itis.gov/>, U.S. Geological Survey

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iDigBio Webinar: DAMmed if you Do or Don’t - Tuesday 17 November 4 PM EST
by Deborah Paul 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Hi Everyone! At the recent iDigBio Summit, the topic of storing media and other data (aka "Archiving") was prominent. Storing "archival" copies of images and other digital assets can be a challenge. Ever heard of a DAM? That's a Digital Asset Management system. Come find out more about these issues - bring your questions, comments, concerns, solutions, and ideas to: iDIgBio Webinar: DAMmed if you Do or Don’t https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-dammed-if-you-do-or-don%E2%80%99t Day and Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2015 Time: 4 PM EST, that's 21:00 UTC Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt Brought to you by: The iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMIG) DETAILS *Abstract:* How to safeguard and preserve digital assets is increasingly critical to collections digitization programs, particularly given the explosion in specimen imaging and related efforts. This webinar will look at various procedures for digital preservation and review what a digital asset management system (DAM) is and can offer. There will be a live demo of an institution-wide DAM at Yale University that serves the Peabody Museum and other campus units, with discussion of costs, timelines, features, technical needs, and how several collections management systems successfully integrated with the DAM. *Presenter*: Larry Gall, Head of Computer Systems and Entomology Collections Manager, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. I’m not technically a PI/coPI on a TCN, but am closely affiliated with all of the Yale ones given that I support the systems/workflow that support our content for the work. Those include Fossil Insect Collaborative (FIC), MacroAlgal Herbarium Consortium (MHC), New England Vascular Plants (NEVP), North American Lichens and Bryophytes (LBCC); and also Paleoniches as a PEN. See you there! Best, Deb, et al and yes, it's being recorded if you can't make it. -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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iDigBio Webinar: Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data: iDigBio's plant records and the Environment Ontology (ENVO)
by Deborah Paul 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi Everyone, Quick reminder about a webinar tomorrow at iDigBio. Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data: iDigBio's plant records and the Environment Ontology (ENVO) https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-shaping-semantic-layer-mining-digit… From Presenter Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg... *Abstract*: Domain ontologies seek to represent the entities in an area of investigation alongside their interrelations in a logically coherent manner. Domain knowledge is the lifeblood of these ontologies and initiatives such as iDigBio offer valuable repositories which contain both legacy and contemporary knowledge and are ripe for mining. The Environment Ontology (ENVO) <http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ENVO> is a domain ontology that is concerned with environments, ecosystems, habitats, and related entities. We performed a cursory text-mining exercise focusing on iDigBio's plant habitat descriptions to learn what terms and phrases the botany community - past and present - have used to describe the environments they sample. The results are being used to guide the creation of new classes and relations in ENVO, ensuring the ontology is fit to represent the environmental aspects of these early waves of digitised plant data. In this webinar, I will describe our approach, some of its early results, and the main challenges we face going forward. Find out more about the ENVO ontology tomorrow 10 November 2015. When: Tue 9 am - 10 am EST (Tallahassee, Florida), that's Tue 3:00 PM CET (Berlin, Germany) Were: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt Who: Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg, HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology Alfred-Wegener-Institut, email: pbuttigi(a)mpi-bremen.de and Grant Godden, Research Associate, Mint Genome Project, Buell Lab, Michigan State University, email: goddengr(a)msu.edu Best, Deb, et al -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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iDigBio Webinar: Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data: iDigBio's plant records and the Environment Ontology (ENVO)
by Deb Paul 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Hi Everyone, You're all invited to join us at an iDigBio webinar next week: *Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data: ** **an encounter between iDigBio's plant records and the Environment Ontology (ENVO) *https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-shaping-semantic-layer-mining-digitised-data-encounter-between-idigbios-plant* ** Abstract*: Domain ontologies seek to represent the entities in an area of investigation alongside their interrelations in a logically coherent manner. Domain knowledge is the lifeblood of these ontologies and initiatives such as iDigBio offer valuable repositories which contain both legacy and contemporary knowledge and are ripe for mining. The Environment Ontology (ENVO http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/ENVO) is a domain ontology that is concerned with environments, ecosystems, habitats, and related entities. We performed a cursory text-mining exercise focusing on iDigBio's plant habitat descriptions to learn what terms and phrases the botany community - past and present - have used to describe the environments they sample. The results are being used to guide the creation of new classes and relations in ENVO, ensuring the ontology is fit to represent the environmental aspects of these early waves of digitised plant data. In this webinar, I will describe our approach, some of its early results, and the main challenges we face going forward./There is considerable scope to refine and extend this approach to other digitised data and power synergy between the semantic layer and data repositories./ *Presenters: *Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung c/o Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Celsiusstrasse 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany Email: pbuttigi(a)mpi-bremen.de <mailto:pbuttigi@mpi-bremen.de> and Grant Godden Research Associate, Mint Genome Project Buell Lab http://buell-lab.plantbiology.msu.edu/index.shtml Michigan State University Email: goddengr(a)msu.edu <mailto:goddengr@msu.edu> Former iDigBio Graduate Student, Soltis Lab *Where*: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt *When:* Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 9:00am to 1:00am EST (Tallahassee, Florida) That's 3:00 pm to 4 pm CET (Berlin, Germany) See you there and please share this posting with other interested parties. Thanks! Deb Paul, et al in the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (please excuse cross-postings) -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Eventshttps://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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iDigBio Webinar:, Variations on the theme of tracking loans, gifts, sampling, and more
by Deborah Paul 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Hi Everyone, What software or programs are the collection's community using to track loans, gifts, donations, sampling events? What's working and what's still challenging? Maybe some are tracking loan requests with digitization efforts? What does the data reveal? Are loans are increasing or decreasing or becoming more specific with the availability of digital records? What is easy to track, what's not? Find out what community members worldwide are doing and share your experiences and expertise, tomorrow at iDigBio's Webinar: Variations on the theme of tracking loans, gifts, sampling, and more https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-variations-theme-tracking-loans-gif… *Guest presenters* include: Simon Checksfield and Nicole Fisher - CSIRO, Andrew Bentley - Specify, Christine Johnson - Entomology at AMNH, Tiffany Adrain - University of Iowa Paleontology, and Elspeth Haston - RBGE TIME: 21:00:00 (UTC) Friday 5:00 PM (EDT); Friday 4:00 PM (Kansas City); Friday 9:00 PM (Edinburgh, London); Sat 8:00 AM (Sydney) DATE: 30 October 2015 (1 November for Sydney, Australia) WHERE: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt See you there! Deb, et al from the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMIG) (please excuse cross-postings) -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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DCMI Free Webinar: Schema.org in Two Parts: From Use to Extension
by DCMI Announce 28 Oct '15

28 Oct '15

*********** Please excuse the cross postings *********** Schema.org in Two Parts: From Use to Extension *DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar* =========================================================== *:: Presenter:* *Richard Wallis* *:: Times: *10:00am - 11:15am EST (UTC 15:00:00) *:: Dates:* Wednesday, Part 1 - 18 Nov. 2015 | Part 2 - 2 Dec. 2015 *:: Webinar Website:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015wallis *:: Part 1 Free Registration: *http://bit.ly/wallis-part1 *:: Part 2 Free Registration:* Coming soon (check Webinar Website above) =========================================================== *ABOUT THIS 2-PART WEBINAR SERIES:* When it was first introduced in 2011 Schema.org was seen by many as a grab, by Google and other search engines, for the semantic web landscape, or as something only of interest to the SEO community wanting their products displayed more prominently in search results. It was therefore somewhat of a surprise to the library community when, less than a year later, the global library cooperative OCLC introduced Schema.org structured data markup into the pages for the 300 million plus resources on Worldcat.org. Things have changed significantly since those early days. Schema.org structured data is now published on over 10 million web domains; the vocabulary has expanded to include over 600 Types and nearly 1,000 Properties; it’s core capability for describing bibliographic resources has been greatly extended. There is now a specific bibliographic extension -- bib.schema.org and, Schema.org implementations and discussions are becoming common in the library community. Join Independent consultant Richard Wallis, former Technology Evangelist for OCLC, currently working with Google on Schema.org, for this two part, in-depth mini-series look at Schema.org, its use, and extension in the bibliographic domain and beyond. *PART 1 WEBINAR: Fit For a Bibliographic Purpose* *Date/Time:* Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00:00 - *World Clock:* http://bit.ly/Webinar-1_Wallis) *Abstract:* In this first webinar in the series, Independent Consultant, Richard Wallis, traces the history of the Schema.org vocabulary, plus its applicability to the bibliographic domain. He will share the background to, and activities of, the Schema Bib Extend W3C Community Group he chairs; why it was set up; how it approached the creation of bibliographic extension proposals; and how those proposals were shaped. He will then review the current status of the vocabulary and the recent introduction of the bib.schema.org and auto.schema.org extensions. Although Richard will be using bibliographic examples, the content of this webinar will be of interest and relevance to those in other domains, and/or considering other extensions. *PART 2 WEBINAR: Extending Potential and Possibilities* *Date/Time:* Wednesday, 2 December 2015, 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00:00 - *World Clock:* http://bit.ly/Webinar-2_Wallis) *Abstract:* In this second more technical webinar in the series, Independent Consultant, Richard Wallis, explains the Schema.org extension mechanism, for external and reviewed/hosted extensions, and their relationship to the core Schema.org vocabulary. He will take an in-depth look at, demonstrate, and share experiences in designing, and creating a potential extension to the vocabulary. He will step through the process of creating the required vocabulary definition and examples files on a local system using a few simple tools then sharing them on a publicly visible temporary cloud instance before proposing to the Schema.org group. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* Richard Wallis Independent Consultant, is a distinguished thought leader in Linked Data and Semantic Web who has been at the forefront of the emergence of these technologies for over 20 years. He is Chair of the Schema Bib Extend, and Schema Architypes, W3C Community Groups and evangelist for the adoption of Linked Data in cultural heritage and the wider Web. He has an international reputation for insightful and entertaining keynote sessions at library, Web, and Semantic Web focused events. Currently working with OCLC, Google, and the banking industry on the extension, application and use of the Schema.org vocabulary; he is a pragmatist who believes in searching for implementable solutions. --*Free Registration now for Part 1* at http://bit.ly/wallis-part1 --*Free Registration for Part 2* (announcement coming soon on Webinar Website)

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iDigBio Friday 23 October Webinar: Improving Data Quality: iDigBio Recordset data cleaning method, tools, and data flags
by Deborah Paul 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Hi Everyone, Are you interested in Data Quality? Where and how, in the data pipeline from specimen and data collection, to digitization and annotation, can a collection's data quality be enhanced? Please join us for a webinar introduction to recordset data data cleaning at iDigBio. *Webinar:* Improving Data Quality: iDigBio Recordset data cleaning method, tools, and data flags https://www.idigbio.org/content/improving-data-quality-idigbio-recordset-da… *When: ***October 23rd, 2015, 2 PM EDT *Where: *http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt *Presenters: *Alex Thompson, Matt Collins with guests: Heather Appleby and Katja Seltmann *Pre-webinar reading:* Check out *blog post by Heather Appleby and Katja Seltmann* about their experience using the information in the data flags provided by iDigBio. What did they learn? What did we learn at iDigBio? What's next? https://www.idigbio.org/content/summer-learning-r-clean-data-idigbio-portal… Brought to you by the iDigBio DMIG and the iDigBio CYWG: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/IDigBio_Working_Groups Please share! Best, Deb, et al at iDigBio (please excuse cross-postings) -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Technology Specialist Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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