Dear TDWG EC and Secretariat, Dear GSC board and Secretariat,
We would like to present the outputs of the Sustainable DwC-MIxS Interoperability Task Group convened under GBWG [1; https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/MIxS/ <https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/MIxS/>].
The final draft of our report is attached to this email and is also viewable here:
https://tinyurl.com/a9khfya6 <https://tinyurl.com/a9khfya6>
In this report, we include a proposed MoU <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PMduF-42m0CqtCsgczG-MajcKLkzkj6BRBs2DVy…> between TDWG and the GSC to ensure sustainable interoperability between DwC and MIxS.
We hope that you will consider our TG report/outputs in your upcoming meetings and will provide feedback where necessary, which will be appended to the report for consideration of future TGs. In particular, feedback on the MoU supporting its adoption would be valuable to the community.
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Yours sincerely,
Raïssa Meyer and Pier Luigi Buttigieg
[1] This TG brought together experts from the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) - alongside key external stakeholders (OBIS, GBIF, Pensoft, etc.) - to develop an approach to promote sustainable interoperability between the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS; maintained by the GSC) and the Darwin Core (DwC; maintained by TDWG) specifications. We 1) generated, and internally reviewed, a fine-grained mapping of DwC to MIxS in a standard format (SSSOM), 2) implemented new extensions to DwC, and 3) developed recommendations on how to expand on and sustain these. We have also identified areas of concern, which are in need of further attention and follow-up TGs. (https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/MIxS/ <https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/MIxS/>)
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Dear all,
We have just sent our TG report to the GSC board and TDWG EC! Congratulations!
As previously discussed, one way of sharing the outputs produced and approach used, would be by publishing the TG report through the BISS journal <https://biss.pensoft.net/journals.php?journal_name=biss>. Please let us know if you would support this as a next step, and we will explore this option further.
For the time being, we have created a read only copy of the report [1], to disseminate to interested parties.
Following last week’s wrap up meeting, we’d again like to thank you all for your exceptional work on this project. The diversity of views and needs we synthesised led to a very robust set of recommendations in a remarkably short time. We also all learned from one another, and hopefully will continue to support one another’s efforts.
It was an honour, and a great pleasure working with all of you. Thank you for your time and focus in collaboratively addressing the complex issue of sustainable and scalable standards mapping. We hope that our work will lay a cornerstone for future efforts.
Thank you again,
Raïssa and Pier Luigi
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PMduF-42m0CqtCsgczG-MajcKLkzkj6BRBs2DVy… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PMduF-42m0CqtCsgczG-MajcKLkzkj6BRBs2DVy…>
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Dear all,
As our TG discussions are generally done, we suggest to skip the meeting tomorrow. However, please take this as a last opportunity to review the document and add any comments or final changes. By the end of this week we will finalise it and send it to the relevant parties within TDWG and the GSC for review.
Following our usual rhythm, we would then invite you to our wrap-up meeting in two weeks (2021-08-17, 15:00 UTC), using our regular zoom room.
Thank you and best regards,
Raïssa and Pier
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