[tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Greg Whitbread ghw at anbg.gov.au
Wed Feb 18 08:22:43 CET 2009


Breaking 2 minute rule but ...
Some authoritative comment on NeXML and CDAO re SDD and TDWG ontology
anyone?

greg

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:28, Blum, Stan wrote:
> Kevin et al,
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> Here is another event that TDWG should be aware of -- the NESCent
> sponsored hackathon on phylogenetic (database) interoperability. 
> https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackathon
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> It would be nice if TDWG had someone there at least to observe, in
> particular if this event could serve as a model for our own
> hackathons.
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> -Stan
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org on behalf of Lee Belbin
> Sent: Tue 2009-02-17 10:23 PM
> To: 'Kevin Richards'; 'Technical Architecture Group mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009
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> Hi Kevin
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> Sorry for the delay in responding. Been distracted with submitted
> standards (a nice distraction).
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> The TAG should act as the ‘glue’ between the other TDWG groups. Is the
> key issue therefore the vocabularies/ ontology?
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> I like the idea of a bunch of weasels. It would seem a good idea for
> the TAG to disseminate a statement of intent as soon as your strategy
> crystallizes. This would (hopefully) encourage the groups to aim in a
> productive direction.
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> I’m still working on recruiting members of the Programme Committee.
> They should have a significant input to the meeting. They will be the
> ones making a call to Conveners for group activities including
> involvement across the themes.
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> Lee
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> Lee Belbin
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> TDWG Secretariat
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> From: tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org
> [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Richards
> Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 7:41 PM
> To: Technical Architecture Group mailing list
> Subject: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009
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> Hello fellow TAGers,
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> I like the sound of Donald's mention of a "hackathon".  If anyone else
> is keen for such a thing at TDWG 2009, then let me know.
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> Some ideas that we could work on:
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> - Tapir tools, services, enhancements
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> - LSID tools, services, enhancements
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> - LSID vocabulary work - elaboration of the vocabs, tools for working
> with the vocabs, ?
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> - mash ups
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> - semantic web integration with tdwg standards/tools
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> Also had a few thoughts about how TAG ought to influence the the other
> sub groups and their discussions.
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> A snippet from an email to Doanld...
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> "I do like the idea of concentrating more on the developing standards
> etc.  
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> I feel we will have to be careful though not to end up with different
> groups heading different directions, or re-inventing wheels, because
> they are in separate discussions/sub groups.  One of the main concerns
> here is subgroups creating models for data types that have been done
> elsewhere - ie the "reuse" of existing schemas issue.  I do have a
> cunning plan though that may help (so cunning you could put a tail on
> it and call it a weasel :)).  As this "reuse" issue is really a major
> concern of the TAG group, we could have members of the TAG group
> spreading themselves through the different discussion, making sure
> they are heading the same direction as other groups and reusing
> models, etc, where appropriate.  It may help to have a short TAG "plan
> of attack" meeting before the main meeting to work out strategies for
> this??"
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> Any thoughts?
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> Kevin
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> ______________________________________________________________________
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> From: tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On
> Behalf Of Donald.Hobern at csiro.au [Donald.Hobern at csiro.au]
> Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 5:27 p.m.
> To: tdwg at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: [tdwg] TDWG in 2009
> 
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> Dear TDWG Members and Friends,
> 
> TDWG 2009 will be help in Montpellier France from November 9-13. I
> thought I would take this opportunity to outline the activities I see
> as important for TDWG this year leading up to the conference this
> November. There are many important things for us to be doing in the
> lead up to the meeting.
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> Consolidation of past work
> 
> We have made much progress over the last few years in reworking our
> standards for greater interoperability. The LSID work and the
> associated LSID vocabularies have been a major part of this. These
> changes make it much easier to reuse TDWG standards with different
> technologies, to embed TDWG data elements in other structures, and to
> map other data formats into forms which can be interpreted as
> TDWG-compliant data. However this work is still incomplete. We need to
> formalise the vocabularies as an agreed high-level ontology or data
> model to support cross-project data integration. Many of our projects
> are awaiting a clear lead in this area. Please contact me if you are
> interested in leading some of this work or contributing to the
> discussion.
> 
> One obvious example of the importance of this work comes from Annie
> Simpson's comments during her presentation in Perth. It should not be
> difficult for a group like GISIN to adopt TDWG standards and be able
> quickly to build a network to share data using those standards. I
> reiterate the challenge for us to solve this problem this year, using
> GISIN's requirements as a benchmark.
> 
> It is encouraging to see that NCD nears the end of its public review
> and that TAPIR has just been submitted to the TDWG standards track. It
> would appear that the submission of Darwin Core is not far off either.
> Please help to ensure that we end up with effective standards that can
> be easily adopted by a wide audience. 
> 
> e-Biosphere 2009
> 
> The e-Biosphere 2009 conference (http://www.e-biosphere09.org/) will
> take place in London in June. This goals of this conference are to:
> 
>       * Present and discuss the extraordinary progress made in
>         Biodiversity Informatics over the past decade,  
>       * Provide participants with demonstrations of current
>         capabilities in this field, and  
>       * Bring stakeholders together to create a roadmap for the next
>         decade. 
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> The main meeting (1-3 June) has a programme of invited speakers who
> will provide an overview of what is happening in biodiversity
> informatics and promote a vision for the importance of this work.
> These sessions will address the first and second of the goals above.
> At the end of the week, there will be a smaller two-day workshop with
> representatives from a range of biodiversity informatics projects
> discussing synergies and efficient collaboration (the third goal).
> 
> e-Biosphere is significant to TDWG for several reasons:
> 
>      1. The opening session on 2 June will present the benefits of
>         data standards and integration, and we expect that many of the
>         other sessions will directly or indirectly highlight TDWG
>         work. We are also organising a booth to publicise the work of
>         TDWG and hope that this will be an opportunity to demonstrate
>         the value of our role to a wider audience.  
>      2. The e-Biosphere organisers have established an "Online
>         Conference Community" (http://forum.e-biosphere09.org/) to
>         engage the wider community in pre-conference discussions.  One
>         of the categories (to be added soon) will be on the role of
>         standards and tools in biodiversity informatics.  We encourage
>         TDWG members to contribute to this and to the other conference
>         discussions.  
>      3. TDWG will be represented in the roadmap discussions on 4-5
>         June.  We trust that this session will help us all to clarify
>         priorities for the next few years and will feed into
>         discussions at TDWG 2009 and beyond. 
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> TDWG 2009
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> In recent years TDWG conferences have moved away from their earlier
> format, with significant emphasis on working group meetings, to become
> more of a reporting conference on the activities of TDWG-related
> projects.  This has had some benefits, but has also in some ways
> weakened the organisation by reducing our focus on the core activity
> of developing and promoting standards.  The vitality of our working
> groups in large measure depends on the conference providing a focus
> for their activity.
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> For this reason, TDWG 2009 will be structured differently.  Monday and
> Friday of the conference have been reserved for plenary sessions, but
> for the rest of the conference we plan to run three parallel (and, I
> hope, intersecting) streams of activities.  One of these will be on
> the use of biodiversity informatics to support agriculture and crop
> diversity.  Another stream will be for TDWG to initiate activity in
> response to the roadmap developed at e-Biosphere 2009.  The third
> stream is still be be selected.  Each stream will include a range of
> activities (e.g. symposia, seminars, task group sessions, hackathons)
> planned to address key issues and to result in real deliverables to
> progress biodiversity informatics in the area.
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> We are establishing a Program Committee to plan the conference in
> detail and will keep you informed of progress.
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> Best wishes,
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> Donald
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> Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of
> Living Australia
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> CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700,
> Canberra, ACT 2601
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> Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile:
> 0437990208 
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> Email: Donald.Hobern at csiro.au
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> Web: http://www.ala.org.au/
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