Greetings TDWG Folks,

RE: TaxonWorks Together 2024 - You're Invited - May 7 - 9

The details and to register, see https://together.taxonworks.org/

Bring your perspectives on how to "Describe Life" to the 5th annual event on TaxonWorks, its community, and the broader world of biodiversity informatics. Check out the agenda to see our guests (from aggregators to researchers to data and collection managers and developers and you).

Some key topics to pique your particular interests:

Everyone Can Develop: contributing to and using community-centric open-source endeavours
Our New and Experienced TaxonWorks Adopters Share Their Experiences
Geospatial tools in biodiversity informatics, an open discussion on where we might head
Balancing Global Agency and Local Precision. Roundtrip your feedback.
If you think about the extended specimen and wonder how we can help collections and individuals get recognized for their
          efforts, if you wonder about your agency, please check out this session.        
From Plazi to TaxonWorks
Managing Natural History Collections in TaxonWorks: Perspectives, Tips, and Highlights of New Digitization Workflows
Hear from those actively managing their collections and publishing their data using TaxonWorks        
Growing Taxonomic Communities
Your TaxonWorks Adventure Begins (Demos and Tours)
A (Biodiversity) Data Quality Round Table Conversation
From data quality (e. g. completeness, consistency, compliance), to data management, expect an in-depth congenial local-to-global conversation. From the data aggregator, to the working group, the researcher, the collection / data manager, and the data analyst, what do we each experience, what do we dream of? How is data-quality an outcome of processes? Looking for alignment opportunities and ways to realize the extended specimen.      
Vision: Integrating the TaxonWorks Experience Into a Taxonomy Course    

Some activities will be highly-guided, some information style, and some unconference style. Zoom space may be limited, please don't wait! Questions welcome.

Please see agenda for details and to register.

In anticipation,
Debbie, for the Species File Group
PS definitely cross-posting far-and-wide

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- Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison
- Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois
-- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Past Chair 2021-2022
-- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment
-- Species File Group and Events https://speciesfilegroup.org