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DC-2014 early registration *DEADLINE EXTENSION* to September 20th
by DCMI Announce 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

***Apologies for cross-posting*** The deadline for registration for DC-2014 has been *EXTENDED to 20 September 2014*. All you have to do to get the Early Registration price is go to our registration page on the Conference website listed below and follow the simple instructions. If you work in metadata, you won't want to miss DC-2014. *********************************************************************** *REGISTRATION:* http://ow.ly/B65by *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://ow.ly/B65OM *CONFERENCE DATES:* 8-11 October 2014 *CONFERENCE VENUE: * AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin campus *CONFERENCE THEME:* *Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory* *********************************************************************** Metadata is fundamental in enabling ubiquitous access to cultural and scientific resources through galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). While fundamental, GLAM traditions in documentation and organization lead to significant differences in both their languages of description and domain practices. And yet, the push is on for radically open cultural heritage data that bridges these differences as well as those across the humanities and the natural sciences. DC-2014 will explore the role of metadata in spanning the archipelago of siloed cultural memory in an emerging context of linked access to data repositories as well as repositories of cultural artifacts. This year, the DCMI Annual Conference and Meeting of DCMI (DC-2014) is being hosted by the Texas Digital Library and held in Austin on the beautiful University of Texas campus. Four days of exciting sessions have been planned. While early registration has been extended, please don't wait until the last minute. The *Austin City Limits Music Festival* overlaps the conference dates and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce! Won't you join us in Austin? Sincerely, Stuart A. Sutton DCMI Managing Director

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DC-2014 full-day workshop--"Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management"
by DCMI Announce 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management *Full-day Workshop @ DC-2014* *Wednesday, 8 October 2014* =============================================================== *LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA *VENUE:* Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/) *HOMEPAGE:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… *(Wednesday day-rate option available)* =============================================================== This DC 2014 special event will bring together experts and practitioners to explore archival description in the cultural heritage descriptive landscape, the emergence of authority files/identity description as an opportunity for cultural heritage cross-community collaboration, and provide attendees with the latest information on key metadata editing and management tools used by the working archivist. *Workshop Sponsors:* - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Host) - ArchivesPortal Europe (APEx) - ArchivesSpace - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - Europeana - Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia - ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) - OCLC (Europe) - University of Miami *Workshop Planning Committee:* - Daniel Pitti -- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia - Julianna Barrera-Gomez -- University of Texas at San Antonio - Eric Childress -- OCLC Research - Jen Schaffner -- OCLC Research - Ryan Hildebrand -- Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin The Workshop program is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives. You can register for the Workshop as a day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the full DC-2014 program at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… . Don't procrastinate, register now! Workshop space is limited. The Workshop and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Workshop date approaches. Eric Childress, OCLC DCMI Governing Board Chair-Elect

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DC-2014 Special Session: RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control
by DCMI Announce 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control *Half-day Special Session @ DC-2014* *Thursday, 9 October 2014 - 1:30-5:00* =============================================================== *LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA *VENUE:* AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center ( http://www.meetattexas.com/) *SESSION HOMEPAGE: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/rdfAP *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… *(Thursday day-rate option available)* =============================================================== *Session Abstract: * This session will focus on establishing requirements for implementing Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers. In particular, our interests include the requirements necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which established and developing constraint languages remain valuable in our context. *Scope and Motivation: * Over the last fourteen years, the DCMI community has focused much of its efforts on the development of Application Profiles as a means to enable reuse of properties across multiple schemas, as well as constraint languages to express those profiles. Building on the DC-2013 special session Application Profiles as an Alternative to OWL Ontologies <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/APaltOO>, this session will explore the requirements for defining and implementing Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers and other implementers. In particular, our session will focus on the requirements necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which established and developing constraint languages, such as Description Set Profiles and Shape Expressions/RDF Data Shapes, remain valuable in our context. *Confirmed Panelists:* - Mark Matienzo (mark(a)matienzo.org), DPLA, USA (Facilitator) - Kevin Ford, Library of Congress, USA - Thomas Johnson, Oregon State University, USA - Eric Miller, Zepheira, USA - David Wood, 3 Round Stones, USA *Open Questions Guiding the Session:* 1. How can Application Profile-based validation provide meaningful feedback to a user editing a "record" or set of statements? 2. From the perspective of an implementor, what do we mean by "validation," and does this mean different things from the perspective of implementers building user-facing tools or automated systems to perform these checks? 3. How are existing constraint languages valuable to implementers, particularly if the tools we are building cannot interpret or act on them natively? 4. Should we prioritize developing tools that can interpret serialized constraint definitions, or ensuring that our tools and systems can serialize their constraints into one of these languages? *Special Session Sponsors:* - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - DCMI Technical Board You can register using the day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the full DC-2014 program at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… . Don't procrastinate, register now! The Conference discount hotel block rate at the AT&T Center ends 12 September. This Special Session and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival ( http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Conference dates approaches. Mark Matienzo *Director of Technology, DPLA*

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DC-2014 in Austin, Texas, USA--Early Registration closing soon
by DCMI Announce 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** *DC-2014: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory"* =============================================================== *DATES: * 8-11 October 20114 *LOCATION: *Austin, Texas, USA *WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSE:* *6 September 2014* *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… =============================================================== *It is just under two weeks until the closing of Early Registration for DC-2014*, the International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications. If you work or study in any sector of the metadata ecosystem, you will not want to miss DC-2014 in Austin, Texas. In addition to an excellent set of peer reviewed full papers, project reports and posters, there is an an array of pre- and post-Conference tutorials and workshops, Conference Special Sessions and Best Practices Posters & Demonstrations: *Tutorials & Workshops:* - *Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management* (full day workshop at the Harry Ransom Center) - *Training the Trainers for Linked Data* (full day, hands-on workshop) - *RDF Validation in the Cultural Heritage Community* (1/2 day tutorial) - *Overview: Positioning DCMI & Dublin Core in the Metadata Ecosystem* (1/2 day tutorial) *Special Sessions:* - RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control (sponsored by Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) & DCMI Technical Board) - Schema.org, SchemaBibExtend -- Structured Data on the Web (sponsored by OCLC & Yandex) - BIBFRAME -- Expressing and Connecting Bibliographic Data (sponsored by the Library of Congress) - DCMI Roundtable (experts on BIBFRAME, Europeana Data Model (EDM), DPLA Metadata Application Profile (MAP), Schema.org/SchemaBibExtend, and more -- sponsored by DCMI/Technical Board) The program is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/program14 and the papers, project report and poster abstracts are available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/abstracts-2014. *Don't procrastinate, register now!* The Conference weekend caps the second week of the *Austin City Limits Music Festival* (http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as Conference time approaches.

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Invitation to Open Science Codefest 2014: Last Day for Discounted Rooms and Free Registration
by Morgan Visalli 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Register for Open Science Codefest and book a room at the Fess Parker Hotel in Santa Barbara, CA by August 1st for free registration and discounted room rates! ________________________________________________________ INVITATION TO OPEN SCIENCE CODEFEST 2014 WHAT: Open Science Codefest will gather researchers from ecology, biodiversity science, and other earth and environmental sciences with computer scientists, software engineers, and developers to collaborate on coding projects of mutual interest. WHEN: September 2-4, 2014 WHERE: The Fess Parker Hotel in Santa Barbara, California COST: Registration is free. Rooms are available at the Fess Parker at a discounted rate until August 1st. Register here: http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/ Inspired by hack-a-thons and organized in the participant-driven, unconference style, the Open Science Codefest is for anyone with an interesting problem, solution, or idea that intersects environmental science and computer programming. This is the conference where you will actually get stuff done -- whether that's coding up a new R module, developing an ontology, working on a data repository, creating data visualizations, dreaming up an interactive eco-game, discussing an idea, or any other concrete collaborative goal that interests a group of people. Suggest a session topic or review proposed sessions in the Open Science Codefest Github project ( https://github.com/NCEAS/open-science-codefest/issues?labels=&milestone=&pa…). To suggest a session, create a "New Issue" and apply the "proposed session" label. Email the Codefest team at: codefest(a)nceas.ucsb.edu Learn more on the Codefest website: http://nceas.github.io/open-science-codefest/ Please forward this announcement and spread the word about Open Science Codefest 2014. People from a wide variety of disciplines, geographic regions, and skill levels are encouraged to attend! Follow us on Twitter #OSCodefest Sponsored by: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), the National Science Foundation (NSF), rOpenSci, DataONE, Mozilla Science Lab

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Travel Awards for African Participation in the 2014 TDWG Conference, Jönköping, Sweden
by Mergen Patricia 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Dear all On behalf of TDWG I would like to inform you about following grant opportunities for travel awards for African participants supported jointly by JRS Biodiversity and the Belgian Cooperation. more information at : http://www.tdwg.org/homepage-news-item/article/travel-awards-for-african-pa… Do not hesitate to forward to interested colleagues. Deadline to apply is September 5th 2014. With my best wishes Dr. Patricia Mergen General Secretary of TDWG. Contact : secretary(a)tdwg.org

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CitStitch Hackathon Opportunity
by Austin Mast 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) and Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project (www.notesfromnature.org) are pleased to announce the CitStitch Hackathon. The goal of the hackathon is to build interoperability among projects thus further enabling public participation in biocollections digitization in useful and exciting ways. There are approximately 1 billion specimens of this type in US collections alone, but it is estimated that just 10% of them are currently digitized and online. Digitization of biodiversity research collections grants researchers and the public access to vast quantities of information needed for addressing questions related to climate change, invasive species, and the extinction crisis. The magnitude of the task of bringing those collections into digital format exceeds that of any single organization and will require new, Internet-scale approaches to engage the public. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a ground-breaking citizen-science endeavor with immediate and strong impacts in the areas of biodiversity and applied conservation. The event will occur from December 3–5, 2014, at iDigBio in Gainesville, FL. There is up to $1500 for support of travel, lodging, and meals for each participant. Two or more development tracks will be identified by hackathon participants during one or more remote meetings prior to the hackathon. These tracks could involve such things as (1) innovative cross-platform ways to deploy and manage public participation projects, (2) services for data analysis and visualization to engage the public or inform project management, (3) novel ways to advertise and grow public participation projects, or (4) ingestion of crowdsourced data into biodiversity collection data management systems. The CitStitch Hackathon is being organized by Austin Mast (Florida State University) and Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado–Boulder), with input from an organizing committee additionally composed of Ben Brumfield, Libby Ellwood, Paul Flemons, Ed Gilbert, Greg Newman, and Nelson Rios. **If you wish to be considered for one of about 5–7 open invitations (of a total of about 30), please send (1) your CV/resume, (2) a short description (<250 words) of your relevant expertise (citing example products where appropriate), (3) a short description of the functionality that you'd like to develop in this domain, and (4) the days that you can attend to Austin Mast (amast(a)bio.fsu.edu) by Monday, September 1, for assured consideration. We especially encourage qualified graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to apply.** With best regards, Austin and Rob Austin Mast ____________________________________ Associate Professor · Director, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium · Associate Editor, Systematic Biology and Systematic Botany · Treasurer, American Society of Plant Taxonomists · Executive Committee Member, iDigBio, The National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. Office is King Life Science Building, room 4065 · Lab is King Life Science Building, rooms 4068 and 4084 · Herbarium is Biological Science Unit One, room 100 Voice: 1 (850) 645-1500 · Fax: 1 (850) 645-8447 · amast(a)bio.fsu.edu ____________________________________

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Final Call: Tree-for-All: A hackathon to access OpenTree’s global phylogeny resources
by Julie Allen 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

A global “tree of life” will transform biological research in a broad range of disciplines from ecology to bioengineering. To help facilitate that transformation, the OpenTree <http://opentreeoflife.org/> project [1] now provides online access to >4000 published phylogenies, and a newly generated tree covering more than 2.5 million species. The next step is to build tools to enable the community to use these resources. To meet this aim, OpenTree <http://www.opentreeoflife.org/>, Arbor <http://www.arborworkflows.com/> [2] and NESCent’s HIP <http://www.evoio.org/wiki/HIP> working groups [3] are staging a week-long hackathon September 15 to 19 at U. Michigan, Ann Arbor. Participants in this “Tree-for-all” will work in small teams to develop tools that use OpenTree’s web services to extract, annotate, or add data in ways useful to the community. Teams also may focus on testing, expanding and documenting the web services. How could a global phylogeny be useful in your research or teaching? What other data from OpenTree would be valuable? How could OpenTree web services be integrated into familiar workflows and analysis tools? How could we add to the database of published trees, or enrich it with annotations? If you can imagine using these resources, and you have the skills to work collaboratively to turn those ideas into products (as a coder, or working side-by-side with coders), we invite you to apply for the hackathon. The full call for participation (http://bit.ly/1ioPPMc) provides instructions for how to apply, and how to share your ideas with potential teammates (strongly encouraged prior to applying). Applications are due July 8th. Travel support is provided. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. If you have questions, contact Karen Cranston (karen.cranston(a)nescent.org, @kcranstn, OpenTree), Arlin Stoltzfus (arlin(a)umd.edu, HIP), Julie Allen ( juliema(a)illinois.edu, HIP), or Luke Harmon (lukeh(a)uidaho.edu, Arbor). [1] http://www.opentreeoflife.org [2] http://www.arborworkflows.com/ [3] http://www.evoio.org/wiki/HIP (Hackathons, Interoperability, Phylogenies) -- Julie Allen Postdoctoral Researcher Illinois Natural History Survey University of Illinois www.juliamallen.com

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NMNH Paleo informatician job posting
by Cynthia Parr 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Apologies to those of you not eligible, but Rusty Russell and I thought that the TDWG community might want to know about this job posting from Kathy Hollis (NMNH). Please don't ask me questions about it -- I'm just posting on their behalf. ----------- The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is seeking a paleobiology informatics specialist. The posting closes Friday July 11, 2014. This position is open to all U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals. Note: Federal employees with permanent status or individuals eligible for special appointing authorities may also apply to Job Announcement #14R-JW-299027-MPA-NMNH. *Duties* - Develops, designs, implements and maintains sustainable and extensible database-driven web applications. - Assists research staff in implementing digital collaboration with colleagues outside the Museum and will support a facility for two-way sharing of research data. - Establishes and oversees a georeferencing program to georeference Paleo and historical United States Geologic Survey collecting localities according to best practices and established standards. - Researches and reviews the applicability of new information technologies and processes that improve the efficiency and productivity of Department digitization and research programs. *For full details and to apply:* For all applicants with non-Federal status: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/373760000 For all Federal status applicants: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/373776500

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Standards for mobilising and integrating sample-based data
by Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF] 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

We invite submissions for presentations on a symposium at TDWG 2014 on "Standards for mobilising and integrating sample-based data". Those interested should contact the conveners listed below. The closing date for submission is August 1st. Sample-based data is available from thousands of environmental, ecological, and natural resource monitoring programmes. Such data are usually quantitative, calibrated, and follow certain protocols so that changes and trends of populations can be detected. This is in contrast to opportunistic observation and collection data, which today form a significant portion of openly accessible biodiversity data. Sample-based data is often not shared because the underlying protocols have been hard to encode in a standardised way. This symposium will present recent work on a proposal for extending DwC with a minimal set of new properties (e.g., quantity, quantityType, samplingGeometry, samplingUnit, eventSeriesID) that allow encoding of the essential characteristics of sample-based data while drawing on the existing tool and support infrastructure offered by the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit. Presentations on other publishing models for sample-based data are most welcome. We are particularly interested in submissions relating to extension of the Darwin Core Archive model, DataOne/LTER/KNB data integration, application of models such as OGC Observations and Measurements, and in new or emerging technologies such as Veg-X [1], JSON-LD [2] or CSV on the Web [3] [1] http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Vegetation/WebHome [2] http://json-ld.org/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2013/05/lcsv-charter.html Conveners Éamonn Ó Tuama (eotuama(a)gbif.org) Hannu Saarenmaa (hannu.saarenmaa(a)helsinki.fi) ____________________________________________________ Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (eotuama(a)gbif.org), Senior Programme Officer for Interoperability, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480

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