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Announcement: New edition of Terms Used in Bionomenclature
by David Remsen (GBIF) 27 May '10

27 May '10

Dear TDWG-ers FYI I'd like to announce the publication of an updated edition of Terms Used in Bionomenclature, compiled by Prof. David Hawksworth. This is a glossary of over 2,100 terms used in biological nomenclature - the naming of whole organisms of all kinds. The glossary is available in print-ready PDF format as well as via an online web application that can be browsed, searched, and output in HTML, JSON and RDF to support re-use and referencing. GBIF is also producing a limited number of paper copies of the glossary which will be available at GBIF-supported meetings and events. The web application supports the development of controlled vocabularies using resolvable identifiers for nomenclatural terms. More information and links to the PDF and web versions can be found on the glossary home page at http://www.gbif.org/communications/resources/print-and-online-resources/bio… The web application is online at http://bionomenclature-glossary.gbif.org/ I'm happy to field comments on the implementation and pass on comments regarding the content to David Hawksworth. Kind regards, David Remsen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Remsen, Senior Programme Officer Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Tel: +45-35321472 Fax: +45-35321480 Mobile +45 28751472 Skype: dremsen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[tdwg-phylo] Call for Software Bazaar entries open for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)
by Hilmar Lapp 26 May '10

26 May '10

The Call for Software Bazaar entries is now open for the inaugural conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio), at http://ievobio.org/ocs/index.php/ievobio/ 2010. See below for instructions. The Software Bazaar features presenters demonstrating their software live on a laptop. At iEvoBio, this session takes the place of a poster session, and will be between 1.5-2 hours in duration. Conference attendees will be able to walk from one demonstration to the next and open a conversation with the presenters. Please also see our FAQ for this information (http://ievobio.org/faq.html#software). The Software Bazaar is part of the interactive afternoon program on the first conference day. Entries should be software aimed at advancing research in phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity, and can include interactive visualizations that have been pre-computed (such as SVGs, or Google Earth-compatible KML files). Submissions consist of a title, which will typically be the name of the software (or visualization method) being presented, the URL of a website where more information about the software can be obtained, and the license under which the source code is available. The provided website must contain a link to where the source code (and possibly binaries) can be downloaded. If it is not obvious from the provided website, the submission must describe what the software does. Reviewers will judge whether a submission is within scope of the conference (see above), and need to be able to verify whether the open- source requirement(*) is met. Presenters are expected to bring their own laptops for presentation, and any auxiliary devices necessary (such as a mouse). Power will be available at the presentation tables (110V/60Hz, US-style plugs; international presenters need to bring a suitable adaptor). Please let the organizing committee know as much in advance as possible if you expect to have unusually high demands for wireless network bandwidth. Note that commercial marketing activities are not permitted - presenters wishing to promote commercial or proprietary services or products should contact the Evolution conference about exhibitor space. Review and acceptance of Software Bazaar submissions will be on a rolling basis. The deadline for submission is the morning of the first day of the conference (June 29). As the number of Software Bazaar presentation slots is finite, we cannot guarantee the availability of slots up until the day of the conference. We cannot accept submissions until the open-source requirements are met. We ask all submitters of Software Bazaar presentations to be willing to also serve as reviewers of such, as described above. Softwar Bazaar demonstrations are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Full talks (closed), 2) Lightning talks, 3) Challenge entries, and 4) Birds-of-a- Feather gatherings. The Calls for Challenge entries (http://ievobio.org/challenge.html ) and Lightning Talks (same submission URL as above) remain open, and information on the Birds-of-a-Feather session is forthcoming. More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio. iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The iEvoBio 2010 Organizing Committee: Rod Page (University of Glasgow) Cecile Ane (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) Michael Sanderson (University of Arizona) (*) iEvoBio and its sponsors are dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development (see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) and reuse within the research community. For this reason, software to be demonstrated to conference attendees must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License (see http://www.opensource.org/ licenses/), and be available for download, including source code, by a tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or through a widely used version control system like cvs, Subversion, git, Bazaar, or Mercurial. Authors are advised that non-compliant submissions must be revised to meet the requirement by June 27 at the latest, and in the event that presentation slots run out, precedence is established by the date they are first found in compliance, not the date of submission.

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Missing Synonymy document
by David Remsen (GBIF) 19 May '10

19 May '10

Several TDWG related sites, lists, and mails have referenced a document houses at Yale illustrating zoological and botanical synonymy http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/wiki/GNAsynonymsExample Anyone have a copy of this file? I've got a mail to the webmaster but just in case I thought I might ask here. Best, David

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Comment about the definition of the Darwin Core class Occurrence
by Steve Baskauf 02 May '10

02 May '10

I have posted a comment regarding the meaning of the Darwin Core class Occurrence and its relationship to other Darwin Core and Dublin Core terms. I would appreciate responses either on the Google Code darwincore site or via the tdwg-tag list (tdwg-tag(a)lists.tdwg.org) which I think is the appropriate venue for the discussion (I am cross-posting here because I'm not sure how many people are actually on the tag list). The comment is at: http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=70 Steve Baskauf -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: VU Station B 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 343-6707 http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu

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