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Announcement of TDWG 2014 conference and Call for Symposia and Workshops is open.
by Mergen Patricia 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Dear all We are happy to announce the 2014 TDWG annual conference and the opening of the call for Symposia and Workshops. The 2014 TDWG Conference will be held 3-7 November at the Nairobi Crowne Plaza Hotel ( http://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/nairobi/nbocp/hoteldetail). Attendees will have the option of choosing accommodations at several other hotels within a short distance of the Crowne Plaza. Registration details will be provided early in 2014. The meeting website is under construction and will be available soon at http://www.tdwg.org/conference2014.<http://conference2014.>For planing your journey, note that it is foreseen to have trainings the week before the TDWG conference and that post conference excursions will be suggested for the week after the conference. Call for Symposia and Workshops open until January 15th 2014 at : www.tdwg.org/homepage-news-item/article/tdwg-conference-2014-call-for-sympo… We look forward to read your proposals and to see you next November in Nairobi. With my best wishes for end of year celebrations. Patricia Mergen General Secretary of TDWG on behalf of the Executive committee secretary(a)tdwg.org

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full-time position in Museum Informatics
by pdpolly 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

A final reminder… ------------------------------------- Full-time position in museum informatics ------------------------------------- The Center for Biological Research Collections at Indiana University invites applications for a full-time position in museum informatics. We seek a project coordinator for the development of digital resources from IU’s plant, animal, and fossil collections with skills in programing, biological nomenclature, and digital 3D data who will coordinate activities digitization and data processing activities. A graduate degree in museum informatics (or equivalent experience) is required, as are skills in computer programming and SQL databases. The appointment will be for four years pending satisfactory evaluation. Additional information is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~cbrc/search.html. For full consideration, candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at: http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/616. Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Professor David Polly (pdpolly(a)indiana.edu). Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer; women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Review of applications will begin December 20, 2013. P. David Polly Professor, Geological Sciences Adjunct, Anthropology and Biology Director, Center for Biological Research Collections Indiana University 1001 E. 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-1405 pdpolly(a)indiana.edu +1 (812) 855-7994 http://mypage.iu.edu/~pdpolly/

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Full-time position in Museum Informatics
by pdpolly 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

------------------------------------- Full-time position in museum informatics ------------------------------------- The Center for Biological Research Collections at Indiana University invites applications for a full-time position in museum informatics. We seek a project coordinator for the development of digital resources from IU’s plant, animal, and fossil collections with skills in programing, biological nomenclature, and digital 3D data who will coordinate activities digitization and data processing activities. A graduate degree in museum informatics (or equivalent experience) is required, as are skills in computer programming and SQL databases. The appointment will be for four years pending satisfactory evaluation. Additional information is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~cbrc/search.html. For full consideration, candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at: http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/616. Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Professor David Polly (pdpolly(a)indiana.edu). Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer; women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Review of applications will begin December 20, 2013. P. David Polly Professor, Geological Sciences Adjunct, Anthropology and Biology Director, Center for Biological Research Collections Indiana University 1001 E. 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-1405 pdpolly(a)indiana.edu +1 (812) 855-7994 http://mypage.iu.edu/~pdpolly/

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Searching for grad students to fill FSU herbarium curator position
by Austin Mast 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

I would greatly appreciate it if you would pass this announcement on to individuals who might be interested in this opportunity. I am keen to find students who are interested in gaining experience as a curator of a biodiversity research collection (Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium; http://www.herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/) while working with me towards a graduate degree in plant diversity research (e.g., systematics, ecology, evolution, biogeography, or biodiversity informatics). Staff members of the herbarium have played leadership roles in digitization of biodiversity specimens locally (e.g., with the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project and a collaboration that led to digitization of Tall Timbers Research Station's biodiversity collections) and nationally (e.g., with Morphbank and iDigBio). The herbarium curator is currently treated as a graduate research assistantship, and students have traditionally held the position for 1–3 years (see http://www.bio.fsu.edu/fin_sup_index.php for a description of financial support for our graduate students). Individuals filling the curator position would not be expected to fill the position during their entire time as graduate students, but would be encouraged to gain teaching and lab/field research experience as well. FSU has a strong ecology and evolution program (http://www.bio.fsu.edu/ and http://www.bio.fsu.edu/ee/ for more details), and the campus is situated in the beautiful Florida panhandle—one of the continent's biodiversity hotspots. Applications are due by Dec. 1, 2013 (for details see http://www.bio.fsu.edu/gradadmit.php). Interested individuals should also contact me directly (contact info in signature). Thanks! Austin Austin Mast ____________________________________ Associate Professor · Director, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium · Associate Editor, Systematic Biology and Systematic Botany · Treasurer, American Society of Plant Taxonomists · Steering 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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TR: Job offer : Senior Software Engineer / France
by Rovellotti olivier 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Dear all Natural Solutions is looking into hiring a software developer to work on various Biodiversity Informatics projects. The Job is based in Marseille, and some French would be welcome. Full job description can be found here: http://natural-solutions.squarespace.com/job-senior-dev Kind regards Rovellotti Olivier Directeur Natural Solutions 00 33 (0)6 09 57 66 53 Twitt me: @orovellotti <https://twitter.com/orovellotti> <http://www.natural-solutions.eu> www.natural-solutions.eu

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Job offer : Senior Software Engineer / France
by Rovellotti olivier 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Dear all Natural Solutions is looking into hiring a software developer to work on various Biodiversity Informatics projects. The Job is based in Marseille, and some French would be welcome. Full job description can be found here: http://natural-solutions.squarespace.com/job-senior-dev Kind regards Rovellotti Olivier Directeur Natural Solutions 00 33 (0)6 09 57 66 53 Twit me: @orovellotti <https://twitter.com/orovellotti> <http://www.natural-solutions.eu> www.natural-solutions.eu

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NISO/DCMI Webinar with Thomas Hickey: Cooperative Authority Control
by DCMI Announce 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** =============================================================== NISO/DCMI Webinar: Cooperative Authority Control PRESENTER: Thomas Hickey, OCLC Research DATE: December 4, 2013 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (18:00-19:30 UTC) World Clock: http://bit.ly/1aRZlbz INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/authority/ =============================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR: Libraries around the world have a long tradition of maintaining authority files to assure the consistent presentation and indexing of names. As library authority files have become available online, the authority data has become accessible -- and many have been published as Linked Open Data (LOD) -- but names in one library authority file typically had no link to corresponding records for persons and organizations in other library authority files. After a successful experiment in matching the Library of Congress/NACO authority file with the German National Library's authority file, an online system called the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) [1] was developed to facilitate sharing by ingesting, matching, and displaying the relations between records in multiple authority files. VIAF has grown from three source files in 2007 to more than two dozen files today. The system harvests authority records, enhances them with bibliographic information and brings them together into clusters when it is confident the records describe the same identity. Although the most visible part of VIAF is a HTML interface, the API beneath it supports a linked data view of VIAF with URIs representing the identities themselves, not just URIs for the clusters. It supports names for person, corporations, geographic entities, works, and expressions. With English, French, German, Spanish interfaces (and a Japanese in process), the system is used around the world, with over a million queries per day. The service harvests some 30 million authority records, enhances them with information from 100 million bibliographic records to produce a file of 20+ million clusters, each representing a person, organization, jurisdiction, work, or expression. In addition to supporting a Web browser HTML interface, the API to VIAF supports content negotiation for other views, such as RDF-XML and MARC-21. Bulk dumps of the VIAF clusters are available under the ODC-By attribution license. The Webinar will cover some of the challenges VIAF meets in dealing with many different formats and approaches to describing identities, the relationship of VIAF to the source authority files, to other identity systems such as ORCID and ISNI, VIAF's approach to sustainability, governance and persistence, and how ambiguity is recognized and managed. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Thomas Hickey [2] is Chief Scientist at OCLC where he helped found OCLC Research. Current interests include metadata creation and editing systems, authority control, parallel systems for bibliographic processing, and information retrieval and display. In addition to implementing VIAF, his group looks into exploring Web access to metadata, identification of FRBR works and expressions in WorldCat, the algorithmic creation of authorities, and the characterization of collections. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. REGISTRATION: Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern (17:00 UTC) on December 4, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/authority/ =============================================================== [1] http://viaf.org/ [2] http://www.oclc.org/research/people/hickeyt.html

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Museum Informatics Job
by pdpolly 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

------------------------------------- Full-time position in museum informatics ------------------------------------- The Center for Biological Research Collections at Indiana University invites applications for a full-time position in museum informatics. We seek a project coordinator for the development of digital resources from IU’s plant, animal, and fossil collections with skills in programing, biological nomenclature, and digital 3D data who will coordinate activities digitization and data processing activities. A graduate degree in museum informatics (or equivalent experience) is required, as are skills in computer programming and SQL databases. The appointment will be for four years pending satisfactory evaluation. Additional information is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~cbrc/search.html. For full consideration, candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at: http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/616. Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: Professor David Polly (pdpolly(a)indiana.edu). Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer; women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. P. David Polly Professor, Geological Sciences Adjunct, Anthropology and Biology Indiana University 1001 E. 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-1405 pdpolly(a)indiana.edu +1 (812) 855-7994 http://mypage.iu.edu/~pdpolly/

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Biodiversity Specimen Label Transcription Hackathon, applications due Nov 1
by Austin Mast 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) and Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project (www.notesfromnature.org) are pleased to announce a hackathon to further enable public participation in online transcription of biodiversity specimen labels. There are approximately 1 billion specimens of this type in US collections alone, but it is estimated that information from just 10% of them is currently digitized and online. Digitization of natural history collections grants researchers access to vast quantities of information in their investigations of timely subjects such as 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 research and applied conservation. The event will occur from December 16-20, 2013, at iDigBio in Gainesville, FL. There is up to $1200 for support of travel and lodging for each participant. The hackathon will produce new functionality and interoperability for Zooniverse's Notes from Nature (www.notesfromnature.org) and similar transcription tools. There are four areas of development that will be progressively addressed throughout the week. On Monday, the focus will be (1) linking images registered to the iDigBio Cloud to transcription tools to create efficiency and alleviate storage issues. Starting on Tuesday, topics will include (2) transcription QA/QC and the reconciliation of replicate transcriptions, (3) integration of OCR into the transcription workflow, and (4) new UI features and novel incentive approaches for public engagement. We expect that most participants will arrive on Monday afternoon and depart on Friday late afternoon/evening or Saturday morning. There will be a social at the Florida Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, December 18. There will be opportunities to narrow the focus in each category of activity in a teleconference tentatively scheduled for early in the week of November 25. **If you wish to be considered for one of about ten 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) the development areas that interest you (of the four numbered above), and (4) the days that you can attend to Austin Mast (amast(a)bio.fsu.edu) by Friday, November 1, for assured consideration. At least 3 slots will be reserved for qualified graduate students.** With best regards, Austin and Rob Guralnick (UC-Boulder), co-organizers Austin Mast ____________________________________ Associate Professor · Director, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium · Associate Editor, Systematic Biology and Systematic Botany · Treasurer, American Society of Plant Taxonomists · Steering 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 Invitation - NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Public Sector Administration
by DCMI Announce 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** =============================================================== NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Public Sector Administration PRESENTER: Makx Dekkers & Stijn Goedertier DATE: October 30, 2013 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (17:00-18:30 UTC) World Clock: http://bit.ly/19EvBJe INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/publicsector/ =============================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR: One key challenge for e-Government programs around the world has been the lack of easily accessible information about the metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies, code lists, and other reference data that provide interoperability among a broad diversity of data sources. The Asset Description Metadata Schema [1] was developed for exchanging information about such "interoperability assets". The schema was developed with support from the European Commission with the objective of facilitating interoperability across eGovernment programmes in Europe, but it is already proving its usefulness in a wider context, for example to describe specifications maintained by DCMI and W3C. One key implementation of ADMS is in a federation of semantic asset repositories on the Joinup server [2]. Libraries that collect government information will benefit if such information is based on a set of commonly used schemas, vocabularies and code lists, making it easier to aggregate information from multiple sources. This webinar introduces the ADMS schema and discusses examples of its implementation. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Makx Dekkers has been the editor in the development and consensus process for ADMS. He is an independent information professional who has been working in areas of information management, metadata and interoperability for more than three decades. After a career start in library and information networking and international cooperation, he became the Managing Director at DCMI in 2001, a position he held until 2011. Since then, he has been involved with projects concerning interoperability in the areas of Open Government Data and Public Sector information. Stijn Goedertier, has been working since 2010 as a contractor for the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administration (ISA) Programme of the European Commission. His interests include digital public services, administrative processes, and semantic interoperability. Since 2011, he has been closely involved in the development and promotion of the e-Government Core Vocabularies and Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) together with public administrations and standardisation organisations in Europe. In that context, Stijn was also responsible for the design and operation of the federation of semantic asset repositories on Joinup [2]. Stijn is also a manager at PwC Technology Consulting where he focuses on Information Management. He has a Master degree in Business Engineering and a PhD in Process Mining. REGISTRATION: Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern (16:00 UTC) on October 30, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/publicsector/ =============================================================== [1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/100 [2] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/repository

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