Dear Taggers,
It is that time of year again when we turn our attention to the TDWG
conference.
It is a requirement of the Technical Architecture Group to produce a
Roadmap document that gives a vision of where we are and where we are
going. A kind of high level overview.
Last year I printed this out and got it distributed in the conference
pack and will consider doing the same again this year. I have to give
a presentation near the beginning of the meeting and I intend this to
be based of the Roadmap.
Whether or not you are attending the conference I would like to have
your opinions and help in constructing this document. It is your
chance to reflect what you think the true state of affairs are in the
TDWG world and where you think things should go.
I have created a wiki page to author the document on here:
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/RoadMap2008
Please contribute directly to the wiki or comment back to the list.
I am considering having a section on 'Projects' that covers ALA, EoL,
GBIF and others activities but am worried about missing projects off
or how relevant this is. What do you think?
As always I am grateful for your thoughts,
Roger
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Roger Hyam
Roger(a)BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org
http://www.BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR, UK
Tel: +44 131 552 7171 ext 3015
Fax: +44 131 248 2901
http://www.rbge.org.uk/
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Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2008 Conference
Friday 24th October 2008 Session 20: Wild Ideas
http://www.tdwg.org/conference2008/
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"Wouldn't it be cool if we had a tool to do...."
"Why don't we serve data like...."
"Check out this non OGC GIS system...."
"We need to copy the ideas of community...."
"This online data curation site is awesome...."
"Check what I can do with my super computer other than play World of
Warcraft...."
"Cloud computing is allowing me to...."
"Google / Facebook / Flickr process data like this .... why don't we?"
We all have them - wild ideas - and now we all want to hear them.
Have you an idea that you could present for 15 minutes at the 2008
TDWG conference in Perth? Perhaps you have something that goes beyond
the usual schemas, the usual harvesting model, the usual processing or
visualisation? There are no limitations, no boundaries other than it
must relate somehow to biodiversity informatics. Who knows, maybe you
can generate some interest, start a working group and next year we'll
be presenting a new working method.
If you have an idea, please mail Tim and Markus on trobertson(a)gbif.org
and mdoering(a)gbif.org with a brief outline and we'll get back to you.
And if you have a presentation to give, but can't be there in person,
maybe we can hook up a video link, you can ask someone else to present
it for you or submit a video presentation?
Cheers
Markus and Tim
Dear all,
Just to let you know that TapirLink 0.6.1 has just been released:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38190&package_id=217…
For those who have installed from Subversion (the preferred way) you can
update your local copies using the corresponding revision number: 746.
This release allows TapirLink to be configured for automatic updates and
includes caching of search and inventory count results by default. A
couple of bugfixes were also made.
The complete changelog can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=38190&release_id=617…
Best Regards,
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Renato
