[TDWG-MIDS] 4th meeting, 4th March UTC 14:30-16:00 agenda and zoom link

[Alex Hardisty]

Dear colleagues,

The fourth meeting of TDWG TG MIDS will take place on Thursday 4th March 2021 UTC 14:30-16:00. The agenda and other details are below. Elspeth and I look forward to your contributions. If there are other items for the agenda, please inform us.

Zoom details
The meeting will take place by Zoom and will be started/hosted by co-convenor Alex Hardisty.
Meeting URL:     https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/81730361925?pwd=Z2J0T1U2VWxXSVM5TGUyblIyWFdJQT09
Meeting ID:        817 3036 1925
Password:          926998

Agenda
A googledoc for notes is here: http://bit.ly/tgmids-notes.


1)                  Introduction

     *   Reminder of the work:
At the least meeting we dropped RecordCreator and CreatedOn terms. Retained Modified. Discussion on Name as an indicator of what a thing is. Today we need a decision on that. materialType needs a more atomized vocabulary but also noted this is running into weaknesses in existing vocabularies like DwC.

     *   Short report from CETAF Digitization working group, 1st March 2021

Info elements related to geography - which are most important?



2)                  Decision needed

     *   Name (https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/12) - pending decision carried over from previous meeting.

                                                               i.      Slight preference from those present to use the label 'Name'. An alternative label, preferred by a few is 'Title'.

                                                             ii.      Definition of the term is general, "A name given to the specimen". Equivalent to dc:title: "A name given to the resource" (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title) and to Schema.org 'name': "The name of the item". (https://schema.org/name).

                                                           iii.      Map it to dwc:scientificName (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName), and abcd:fullScientificName (and adapted discipline-specific terms).


3)                  Discussion needed (as time permits)

     *   MaterialType (https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/14)
     *   Mass (https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/4) - proposal for an additional/new information element necessary for certain geological specimen categories
     *   PhysicalSpecimenId (https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/10)
     *   Institution (https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/11)
     *   Geography related




4)                  Any other business

Kind regards
--
Alex

Alex Hardisty                                                                 Alex Hardisty
Director of Informatics Projects                                   Cyfarwyddwr y Prosiect Gwybodeg
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