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Webinar - Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology (DCAT)
by announce＠dublincore.net 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

[apologies for cross-posting] DCMI is pleased to announce a new webinar, scheduled for Thursday November 12th 2020. Peter Winstanley will talk about the history of DCAT and its underlying philosophy. The W3C Data Catalogue ontology (DCAT) is a recommendation for how to publish data catalogues on the web. It can be used by itself, of form the basis of a richer application profile. Although originally focusing on open government data, the ontology and application profiles are now seeing use in a wider set of uses. Peter is an ontologist with Semantic Arts and co-Chair of the W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group The webinar will take place on November 12th 2020, 16:00 UTC Full details, including a time-zone converter and instructions on how to join the webinar: https://bit.ly/3mHPAnq Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)

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Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections
by Austin 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear Colleagues, iDigBio is pleased to announce a 7-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course. Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators. All collection types (insects, birds, fish, fossils, plants, etc.), collection settings (natural history museums, universities, field stations, government agencies, etc.), and locations on Earth are welcome to apply, though the scheduled time might make it difficult for people in some locations to participate. Discussions and presentations will be in English. If you are part of a herbarium, you might like to wait to take the “Strategic Planning for Herbaria” course that we will offer in spring 2021 in collaboration with the Society of Herbarium Curators. However, those from herbaria are also welcome to apply for this course, which will have a more diverse set of collections in attendance. The “Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” course will occur on Mondays from 3:00–4:00 Eastern Time from November 2–December 14, 2020. We anticipate that the course will require 3–5 hours of work per week, including the 1 hour in-class. The goal is to produce a short (5–10 pages) strategic plan for each represented biodiversity collection. Each plan will address vision, mission, stakeholders, strategies, goals, objectives, evaluation, and sustainability, among other things. The process is at least as valuable as the product, and you might find that the exercises benefit your organization in unexpected ways. We have previously worked on strategic planning with over 90 biodiversity collections. The course will be capped at a size to ensure adequate opportunities to participate in discussions. We are looking for creative, committed participants who can help us to build momentum for this as an annual event. If multiple individuals from a biodiversity collection are interested in participating in the course, we ask that one formally apply and the others participate in the out-of-class exercises and brainstorming sessions. A draft syllabus of the course is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKx33ieVCBeZISqw8zg4r7iRKG6dVnsOJebmK1q… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKx33ieVCBeZISqw8zg4r7iRKG6dVnsOJebmK1q…> To apply, please fill out this short Google Form (https://forms.gle/HK4nQUXMWCi8kqnDA <https://forms.gle/HK4nQUXMWCi8kqnDA>) by October 26. Admission decisions will be made shortly thereafter. Please share this announcement with relevant communities. With best regards, David Jennings (iDigBio’s Project Manager) and Austin Mast (Director of iDigBio’s Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science Domain) Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 · amast(a)bio.fsu.edu · he/him

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Share your thoughts: Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections
by Austin 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

We are pleased to announce the development of a new, twice monthly event: Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections. The goal of the event is to catalyze excellence in all forms of citizen science involving biodiversity collections by scheduling engaging speakers on high priority topics with time for group discussion. The biodiversity collections community includes those organizations (natural history museums, universities, field stations, government agencies, etc.) curating such resources as insects on pins, plants on sheets, fish in jars, and fossils in drawers. Topics could include online engagement tools, ethical considerations, the future of the field, data validation, resources from citizen science associations, citizen science in formal education settings, and much more. All participants are welcomed, whatever their location on Earth, institutional setting, career stage, or credentials. However, speakers will be asked to pitch their talk to an audience that has some affiliation with, or deep interest in, biodiversity collections. And talks and conversations are likely to be in English. Register your interest and express your priorities and preferences for this event at https://forms.gle/MsQgyQ2xfTtjJTxQ6 <https://forms.gle/MsQgyQ2xfTtjJTxQ6> While completing the survey you can express an interest in joining the organizing committee. The event is being initiated by iDigBio, the US National Science Foundation's National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections. And feel free to share this announcement with others. With best regards, Austin Mast (Florida State University) and Libby Elwood (University of Florida), co-organizers Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 · amast(a)bio.fsu.edu · he/him

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Invitation to TDWG 2020 “BoF01: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens - Towards a global specification”
by Wouter Addink 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to a TDWG 2020 Birds of a Feather (BoF) discussion on 22nd September, (UTC 14:30 – 16:30). The details of the session are: *TDWG 2020 Birds of Feather session, “BoF01: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens - Towards a global specification”* ( https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2020/working-sessions/), co-convened by Alex Hardisty (Cardiff University, DiSSCo) and Andrew Bentley (KU Biodiversity Institute, BCoN). The purpose of the BoF is to explore the commonalities and differences of the Digital Specimen and Extended Specimen concepts with the aim of converging towards a global specification. As a participant of the DiSSCo Prepare project and/or member of the DiSSCo Technical Team, you may find this discussion interesting. Please add this to your diary. To join the BoF, it’s necessary for individuals to register for the TDWG 2020 working sessions week and then each person will receive a personal zoom address. The registration link can be found on this session schedule page: https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2020/working-sessions-schedule/. Kind regards Alex Hardisty Andrew Bentley Cardiff University University of Kansas -

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Still time to register for DCMI Virtual 2020
by announce＠dublincore.net 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

[apologies for cross-posting] There is still time to register for DCMI Virtual 2020! https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/registration/ DCMI Virtual 2020 is an exciting programme of virtual, invited and moderated interactive sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials and presentations which will run from Monday September 14th 2020 to Friday 25th September 2020. The full programme is available here: https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/programme/ Register now! Paul walk, DCMI (on behalf of the DCMI Virtual 2020 Programme Committee)

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Register for DCMI Virtual 2020
by announce＠dublincore.net 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

[apologies for cross-posting] Register for DCMI Virtual 2020 now! https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/registration/ DCMI Virtual 2020 is an exciting programme of virtual, invited and moderated interactive sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials and presentations. DCMI Virtual 2020 will run from Monday September 14th 2020 to Friday 25th September 2020. The full programme is available here: https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/programme/ We look forward to you joining us in September! Paul walk, DCMI (on behalf of the DCMI Virtual 2020 Programme Committee)

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Webinar - Getty Vocabulary Program OpenRefine reconciliation service
by announce＠dublincore.net 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

[apologies for cross-posting] DCMI is pleased to announce the second in its new series of webinars! Richard Ward will give a tutorial on the Getty Vocabulary Program's new OpenRefine reconciliation service for aligning data records to ULAN, AAT, and TGN, including matching terms, cleaning data, and grabbing URIs from the Vocabularies' Linked Open Data. The first half of the presentation will be a general overview of how the service works and its benefits, and the second will focus on advanced techniques. Jonathan Ward is the Senior Editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program. He has over 20 years' experience working with thesaurus construction and terminologies for the arts and museum community. He has an MLIS from San José State University and is currently the Vice-Chair of CIDOC, ICOM's International Committee for Documentation. The webinar will take place on August 20, 2020, 15:00 UTC Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join the webinar: https://bit.ly/3fMe8c0 Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)

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CORRECTION - Webinar - Getty Vocabulary Program OpenRefine reconciliation service
by announce＠dublincore.net 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

CORRECTION: The previous email about this webinar misnamed the speaker, who will be Jonathan Ward. Correct details below. DCMI is pleased to announce the second in its new series of webinars! Jonathan Ward will give a tutorial on the Getty Vocabulary Program's new OpenRefine reconciliation service for aligning data records to ULAN, AAT, and TGN, including matching terms, cleaning data, and grabbing URIs from the Vocabularies' Linked Open Data. The first half of the presentation will be a general overview of how the service works and its benefits, and the second will focus on advanced techniques. Jonathan is the Senior Editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program. He has over 20 years' experience working with thesaurus construction and terminologies for the arts and museum community. He has an MLIS from San José State University and is currently the Vice-Chair of CIDOC, ICOM's International Committee for Documentation. The webinar will take place on August 20, 2020, 15:00 UTC Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join the webinar: https://bit.ly/3fMe8c0 Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)

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Webinar - Wikiproject COVID-19
by announce＠dublincore.net 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

[apologies for cross-posting] DCMI is pleased to announce the first in a new series of webinars! Tiago Lubiana will talk about the Wikiproject COVID-19. This project is working to curate and organization information about COVID-19 on Wikidata and Wikipedia. The scale and pace of a global pandemic have highlighted issues around the consistent structuring of information, such as the scope of geographically-bound statements and the time period of outbreaks, along with challenges for quickly updating information on pages across multiple languages. The Wikiproject collaboration has created data models for relevant concepts, using ShEx entity schemas that can be validated via SPARQL queries. This webinar will introduce the Wikiproject and show examples of the data models at work. Tiago Lubiana is a PhD candidate in bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo and curator at Mee (an information startup in São Paulo). The webinar will take place on June 25, 2020, 11:00 UTC Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join the webinar: https://www.dublincore.org/news/2020/05-29-webinar-wikiproject-covid-19/ Paul Walk, DCMI (On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)

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Mini workshop: Building Next-Generation Data Infrastructure for Plant Phenology
by Stan Blum 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Mini workshop: Building Next-Generation Data Infrastructure for Plant Phenology Workshop overview What new software tools would you like to see for plant phenological data and research? Are there data resources you wish you could access or use but are not sure how (or that don’t even exist yet)? What frontiers in phenological research could new data and software support? Our team[1] has been developing methods and tools for integrating, mobilizing, and analyzing plant phenological data, such as the Plant Phenology Ontology <https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00517> and a prototype data portal <https://plantphenology.org/> that integrates various in-situ and historical datasets from around the globe. We are also investigating methods for generating and integrating new phenological data from digital herbarium records and community scientists’ photographs from BudBurst <https://budburst.org/> and iNaturalist <https://www.inaturalist.org/>. Now, we would value your thoughts about 1) how to make plant phenological data more accessible and easier to use; 2) which high-value phenological datasets are still missing; 3) what kinds of analyses you wish you could do with phenological data; and 4) what barriers are limiting large-scale plant phenological research. We will be hosting a virtual, 90-minute, mini-workshop on Wednesday, June 17, from 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (see in your local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phenology+mini-wo…>), and we would love to hear what you think about these issues. Your feedback will help guide efforts to develop a next generation of phenological data and tools. We welcome participants from outside of North America, too, and we recognize that 3:00 PM in the eastern U.S. might not be a great time for researchers from other continents. Therefore, if we have sufficient international registrants, we will hold one or more additional workshops at alternative times to better accommodate work schedules in other parts of the world. Even if you cannot attend the virtual workshop but you would still like to share your thoughts with us, you can instead choose to complete a brief survey to let us know what you think. So, if these issues are of interest to you, please complete the short registration form and get in touch! Afterwards, we will generate a report summarizing the results of the workshop and share it with all participants. Registration To register for the workshop or to let us know you’d like to complete a brief survey instead, please fill out the short registration form: https://forms.gle/tCy7eSQq33KjyuMF6. Tentative agenda Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Time: 3:00-4:30 PM EDT (2:00 PM CDT, 1:00 PM MDT, 12:00 PM PDT, see in your local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phenology+mini-wo…> ) 3:00 PM Introductory remarks, workshop overview and scope. 3:10 PM Current landscape of plant phenological data, tools, and use cases; survey interests of attendees. 3:40 Breakout group session 1: Discuss key issues in small groups of no more than six participants. 3:00 Breakout group session 2. 4:20 PM Reconvene as a full group, wrap up. [1] Brian Stucky, Rob Guralnick and Daijiang Li (Florida Museum of Natural History); Ramona Walls (University of Arizona); Ellen Denny (USA National Phenology Network); John Deck (Biocode, LLC); Jennifer Schwarz and Taran Lichtenberger (Chicago Botanic Garden); Carrie Seltzer (iNaturalist)

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