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2nd Call for Participation: CAMP-4-DATA Workshop @ DC-2013
by DCMI Announce 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

*Apologies for cross-posting* === *2nd Call for Participation: CAMP-4-DATA Workshop @ DC-2013* === Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community and Research Data Alliance are hosting a day-long Metadata Interest Group workshop, CAMP-4-DATA, on Sept. 6, 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop is part of DC-2013. Submissions for participation are currently open in the areas of short papers, abstracts, and position statements. The intent of this workshop is to discuss and forward challenges and opportunities relating to metadata standards for the management of scientific data, and how policies, applications, and infrastructure can foster creation of and access to sustainable, open, and collective standards. Submissions will remain open through 28 June 2013. ============= *--PARTICIPATION CALL:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp *--WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data *--SUBMISSION DEADLINE:* 28 June 2013 *--DC-2013 WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 (registration open) =============

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DC-2013/iPRES-2013 registration is now open!
by DCMI Announce 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

*Apologies for cross-posting* === DC-2013/iPRES 2013 INVITATION TO REGISTER === Registration for DC-2013 --Linking to the Future-- is now open. The conference will take place 2-6 September 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013. The DC-2013 conference theme explores questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. In addition to the theme, presentations and discussion will cover a broad range of topics on innovation in metadata design and practice. DC-2013 will be collocated with iPRES-2013. Both conferences will take place in the same venue and run in parallel. During the collocated events, delegates are welcome to choose sessions that best fit their interests from either conference. Keynotes are held in common plenaries; and, social events are shared, providing a excellent opportunity for DCMI and iPRES delegates to socialize, share common interests and network. Delegates of the two conferences may separately register for a mix of pre- and post-conference events organized by the conference committees of both iPRES and DCMI. DC-2013 speakers and tutorial leads include: Gildas Illien, Ivan Herman, Richard Wallis, Steven Miller, Kai Eckert, and Daniel Garijo, among many others. Full-day workshops include: (1) VocDay 2013: Managing Vocabularies, sponsored by the DC-Vocabulary Management Community and DC-Bibliographic Metadata Task Group; and (2) CAMP-4-Data: Cyber-infrastructure and Metadata Protocols, sponsored by DC-Science & Metadata Community (DC-SAM) & the Research Data Alliance (RDA). To learn more about the conference program and to register, go to the conference website http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013. DC-2013 and iPRES-2013 share a common registration. Early registration closes on 8 July: €350 early regular, early student €250 (to 8 July) €375 regular & student (after 8 July) --Separate rates apply for pre-/post-conference sessions on Monday and Friday --Day rates are available Registration questions? Contact for DC/iPRES 2013: ipres2013(a)ist.utl.pt We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon in September.

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Country name reconciliation
by Shorthouse, David 27 May '13

27 May '13

Folks, The Canadensys development team, http://www.canadensys.net is looking for efficient, low-maintenance ways to validate and reconcile data in its National cache of occurrence data. We are working on a Java library to initially tackle single-field Darwin Core validations, https://github.com/Canadensys/narwhal-processor. We hope this library is sufficiently generalized for uses outside our project. Our current challenge is to reconcile country names, which requires access to an up-to-date, well-maintained knowledge base of country names, their alternative representations (possibly multilingual), and mappings to known misspellings. For performance reasons, we'd like this thesaurus to be embedded in the library, but with the capacity to be periodically refreshed with data pulled from external resources such as dbpedia.org. This clearly has ties to semantic web thinking and, because we're new to the tools and services in this space, we'd like to solicit pointers and feedback such that we build this part of our library with maximal benefit to other projects. We started collecting thoughts here: https://github.com/Canadensys/narwhal-processor/issues/14. Cheers, David P. Shorthouse Christian Gendreau

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Doctoral research fellow at the Natural History Museum in Oslo and GBIF-Norway
by Dag Endresen 19 May '13

19 May '13

Dear all, The Natural History Museum in Oslo offers 4 year PhD position. The subject of the PhD project is "Thermophilous vascular plants: data quality, distributional constraints and responses to climate change". The PhD position will include a component of research related to biodiversity informatics with connections to the Norwegian participant node to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF-Norway). GBIF-Norway is hosted by the Natural History Museum of the University in Oslo. For more information see: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/973441/71922?iso=no Deadline for application is: 2 June 2013. Regards Dag -- Dag Endresen, PhD Private email: dag.endresen(a)gmail.com Work email: dag.endresen(a)nhm.uio.no Mobile: +47 4061 2982

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Fwd: Please participate (very brief survey!) for data contributors, curators, administrators, repository developers
by Hilmar Lapp 17 May '13

17 May '13

Begin forwarded message: From: "Greenberg, Jane" <janeg(a)email.unc.edu> Subject: Please participate (very brief survey!) for data contributors, curators, administrators, repository developers Date: May 17, 2013 1:45:53 PM EDT To: Bryan <pbryan.heidorn(a)gmail.com>, "Moen, William" <William.Moen(a)unt.edu>, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp(a)nescent.org> Hola guys.. this survey is about the use of controlled vocabularies, and comes out of HIVE work, connected w/DataONE and DFC datanets. We’d love to reach the GBIF community. Would one of you be able to forward? We’d be grateful. [...] On behalf of Jane Greenberg, Director of Metadata Research Center -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings all, (Please participate, and feel free to forward to other relevant lists) The following survey examines controlled vocabulary use and challenges. The survey is for data contributors, curators, administrators, and/or repository developers. Completing the survey takes approximately 10 minutes (or less) to complete. To complete the survey, please click the following link: https://unc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3fU0xOeRbH6jntb. NOTE: If you are unable to click on the link directly, please type the entire link into the address or location field at the top of your web browser, and press the ENTER key on your keyboard to access the survey. The survey is supported by a US DataNet/DataONE supplement to explore controlled vocabulary use within and across a broad spectrum of data repositories, including but not limited to the U.S. DataNet initiatives. Sincerely, Chelcie Rowell ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chelcie Rowell Research Assistant, Metadata Research Center School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chelcie(a)live.unc.edu | 770.862.0750

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NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service
by DCMI Announce 07 May '13

07 May '13

******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** Join NISO/DCMI for our joint May webinar --Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service --Date: May 22, 2013 --Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock: http://bit.ly/157qF2S) --Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/ ========================================================================= ABOUT THE WEBINAR: VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and research publications in the life sciences. The service, which uses open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative, professional, and funding sources. Using a built-in, editable ontology for describing things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is transformed into a Semantic-Web-compliant form. VIVO provides automated and self-updating processes for improving data quality and authenticity. Starting with a classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can browse search results structured around people, research interests, courses, publications, and the like -- data that can be exposed for re-use by other systems in a machine-readable format. This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library Information Technology Services department at Cornell, where the VIVO project was born, presents the perspective of a software developer on the practicalities of building a high-quality Semantic-Web search service on existing data maintained in dozens of formats and software platforms at large, diverse institutions. The talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic Web platform in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the text content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of collaboration across institutions. SPEAKER: John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist at Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project team. He also consults on issues related to information technology in higher education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, distributed software systems and is currently working on systems based on VIVO software for international Agricultural Information systems communities. Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/

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Infrageneric of Eragrostis
by Sami Rabei 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Dear All Does any one has information about subdeneric of Eragrostis for the following species. Eragrostis cilianensis , Eragrostis minor , Eragrostis aegyptiaca , Eragrostis tenuifolia , Eragrostis tef , Eragrostis sarmentosa , Eragrostis barrelieri , Eragrostis pilosa Eragrostis aspera , Eragrostis ciliaris , Eragrostis japonica , Eragrostis lepida , Eragrostis tenella , Eragrostis tremula Thanks in advance sami ===== All the best. Sami Rabei http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GexZOhIAAAAJ Sincerely Yours ---------------------------------- With my Best Wishes Sami Hussein Rabei, Botany Department Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta , Post Box 34517 Damietta Egypt . Tel. Mobile: 002 0127 3601618 002 0101 7895350 Tel. Work: 002 057 2403981 Tel. Home: 002 057 2403108 Fax: 002 057 2403868

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USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) launches with 110+ species occurrences (and growing)
by Simpson, Annie 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

TDWG Colleagues: The BISON project builds on GBIF and other data to provide a species mapping application using the Darwin Core standard. BISON launched today. This information is available online at: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3566&from=rss_home Project URL: http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov *Discovering Species** **- **Just a Click Away* *The USGS makes finding the locations (and more) of U.S. species a lot easier with the new digital resource – BISON* Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation or BISON is the only system of its kind; a unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories. Its size is unprecedented, offering more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide and growing. And the vast majority of the records are specific locations, not just county or state records. What’s more, BISON provides an “Area of Interest” search capability in which users can query by drawing the exact boundary around their area of interest, down to and including towns, villages, or even much smaller areas such as parks. For instance, New York City’s Central Park has more than 100,000 “species occurrences” recorded in BISON, with each species noted in detail. Other BISON search options include querying the species by scientific or common name, year range, state, county, basis of record, or provider institution. As for the results, BISON displays them in both an interactive map and a list format. Users can click on each species occurrence point to retrieve more information, such as the institution providing the data, the collector, the date collected, and whether it was from a collection or an observation. Further, occurrences can be dynamically visualized with more than 50 other layers of environmental information in the system. Extensive web services are also available for direct connections to other systems. “The USGS is proud to announce this monumental resource”, said Kevin Gallagher, Associate Director, Core Science Systems, “and this is a testament to the power of combining the efforts of hundreds of thousands of professional and citizen scientists into a resource that uses Big Data and Open Data principles to deliver biodiversity information for sustaining the Nation’s environmental capital." “BISON is destined to become an indispensable toolkit to manage species occurrence data to support scientific, educational, and policy-making activities in the US”, Dr. Erick Mata, Executive Director of the Encyclopedia of Life explained. “This is highly complementary and synergistic with EOL's efforts to raise awareness and understanding of living nature.” "With BISON, the USGS takes a big step toward making biodiversity data held within Federal agencies easier to find and use”, added Mary Klein, President & CEO of NatureServe. “I am enthusiastic about future opportunities to work with USGS to increase collaboration among Federal, state and private data holders.” USGS Core Science Systems Mission Area, which developed the resource, expects that BISON users will be broad-based and include land managers, researchers, refuge managers, citizen scientists, agriculture professionals, fisheries managers, water resource managers, educators, and more. Land managers, for instance, might be looking for a piece of land to purchase for conservation—but first they want to know what species have been documented for that parcel. BISON will tell them after only a few mouse clicks. BISON serves as the U.S. Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and will form an integral part of EcoINFORMA, the information delivery strategy in "Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and the Economy,"<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast_sustain…>a recent report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST <http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast> ). "BISON responds directly to a key need PCAST pointed out in ‘Sustaining Environmental Capital’ -- to make Federal environmental data available, inter-operable, and usable to the public," said PCAST member Rosina Bierbaum, "We look forward to this 'biodiversity' hub being supplemented by complementary ecological data hubs by other Federal partners, to further the goal of helping communities across the Nation make increasingly wise planning and management decisions." BISON already includes millions of points from the Federal investment in biodiversity research. It is formally cooperating with other Federal agencies to greatly expand the delivery of federally funded biodiversity data for the greatest possible good. Hundreds of thousands of citizen and professional scientists have collected the data in BISON. Non-governmental organizations, state and local governments, universities, and many others are also participating in this enormous undertaking. The USGS has built and maintains BISON, which is hosted on the massive Federal computing infrastructure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To learn more, visit: http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov or contact the USGS BISON Team at BISON(a)usgs.gov The USGS Core Science Analytics and Synthesis program within Core Science Systems is home to BISON and focuses on innovative ways to manage and deliver scientific data and information. The program implements and promotes standards and best practices to enable efficient, data-driven science for decision-making that supports a rapid response to emerging natural resource issues. One of the ways this is accomplished is by developing national data products that increase our understanding of the Earth’s natural systems. **** http://www.usgs.gov/**** *Annie Simpson Eco-Science Synthesis, Core Science Systems U.S. Geological Survey, MS 302 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, Virginia 20192 ================= asimpson(a)usgs.gov 703.648.4281 desk*

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NISO/DCMI webinar: Deployment of RDA Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
by DCMI Announce 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** Join NISO/DCMI for our joint April webinar --Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data --Date: April 24, 2013 --Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock: http://bit.ly/XySJt0) --Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/ ========================================================================= ABOUT THE WEBINAR: A seminar at the British Library in April 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of a 2007 meeting at which representatives of the Dublin Core, Semantic Web, and RDA communities jointly recommended that the then-draft cataloging standard RDA be provided in the form of vocabularies and application profiles usable for Linked Data. One year after this anniversary meeting and one year closer to the general deployment of RDA in libraries, this webinar will take stock of progress towards developing application profiles based on RDA and discuss the practicalities of exposing RDA-based data in the Linked Data cloud. SPEAKER: Alan Danskin, Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library, where he has worked in various capacities since 1987, including implementation of MARC 21. He currently represents the library on the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (Resource Description and Access) for which he until recently served as chair. He has served as chair of the Cataloguing & Indexing Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and is a member of the Book Industry Communication Bibliographic Standards Group. Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED to 5 APRIL 2013 for DC-2013 in Lisbon
by DCMI Announce 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

**** Excuse the cross-posting **** Dear Colleagues: The submission deadline has been EXTENDED TO 5 APRIL 2013 for papers, project reports, and posters for DC-2013 in Lisbon. ====================================================== Call for Papers: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp Conference Website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 Conference Dates: 2-6 September 2013 ====================================================== The DC-2013 conference theme is "Linking to the Future": "DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value. On the web, data -- and especially descriptive vocabularies -- can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem." Beyond the conference theme, DCMI welcomes submissions of papers, project reports and posters addressing the broad array of topics impacting metadata research, design, and practice in domain and cross-domain contexts. Such contexts include, but are not limited to, corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, scientific fields, recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, and publishing. ====================================================== DC-2013 in Lisbon will be collocated, and run simultaneously with, iPRES-2013 offering delegates the opportunity to attend sessions of both conferences and to build bridges between these synergistic groups. "Linking to the Future" demands attention to preservation and linkages to the past. ====================================================== Program Committee Chairs: Kai Eckert Research Group Data and Web Science, University of Mannheim, Germany Muriel Foulonneau Knowledge Intensive Systems and Services, Tudor Research Centre, Luxembourg

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