An earlier somewhat erroneous, version of this escaped to tdwg@lists.tdwg.org. If you are forwarding it, please use this one. Apologies for deluging you....Bob Morris

Dear colleague,

The team listed below is charged by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) with developing a position paper about its future needs for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), a rubric which includes thesauri, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, gazetteers, and other such resources. The paper will cover tools, impediments to deployment, training requirements, etc. After we draft it, the position paper will be put forth for a period of public comment before final recommendations to GBIF.

In order to put together the position paper, we solicit opinions, experiences, needs, and resources already in place about Knowledge Organization for biodiversity research. Please go to http://surveymonkey.com/GBIFKOSurvey to participate in the survey.

We especially value your input about points you feel the survey doesn’t cover.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues or mailing lists you think relevant, hopefully to people who may not have seen it already.

Thanks

GBIF KOS position paper team Bob Morris, Convenor, Terry Catapano, Donald Hobern, Hilmar Lapp, Norman Morrison, Natasha Noy, Mark Schildhauer, Dave Thau

September 7, 2010