April 2010 - tdwg-tag - lists.tdwg.org

Re: [tdwg-tag] RDF N3
by Kevin Richards 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I like the sound of the 'compactness' of the format, but I worry that there is a lack of tools that support the format (ie browsers, mainly). It is quite nice to naturally navigate the rdf world with a standard browser. But for transfer standards, I suppose this wouldn't matter. Kevin Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Bob Morris" <morris.bob(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 12:08 PM Subject: [tdwg-tag] RDF N3 To: "Technical Architecture Group mailing list" <Tdwg-tag(a)lists.tdwg.org> Let's make N3 be the recommended RDF representation. It is way more compact and human readable than RDF/XML. We could even specify a normative conversion tool if necessary. -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: ram(a)cs.umb.edu web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1)617 287 6466 _______________________________________________ tdwg-tag mailing list tdwg-tag(a)lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email Warning: This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential. If you receive it in error: (i) you must not read, use, disclose, copy or retain it; (ii) please contact the sender immediately by reply email and then delete the emails. The views expressed in this email may not be those of Landcare Research New Zealand Limited. http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz

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Call for Lightning Talks open for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)
by Hilmar Lapp 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

The Call for Lightning Talks 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. Lightning talks are short presentations of 5 minutes. They are ideal for drawing the attention of the audience to new developments, tools, and resources, or to subsequent events where more in-depth information can be obtained. Please also see our FAQ for more information (http://ievobio.org/faq.html#lightning ). Lightning talks will be part of the more interactive afternoon program on both conference days. Submitted talks should be in the area of informatics aimed at advancing research in phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity, including new tools, cyberinfrastructure development, large-scale data analysis, and visualization. Submissions consist of a title and an abstract at most 1 page long. The abstract should provide an overview of the talk's subject. Reviewers will judge whether a submission is within scope of the conference (see above). If applicable, the abstract must also state the license and give the URL where the source code is available so reviewers can verify that the open-source requirement(*) is met. Review and acceptance of lightning talks will be on a rolling basis. The deadline for submission is the morning of the first day of the conference (June 29). Note that the number of lightning talk slots is finite, and given the high volume of submissions we experienced for full talks, the Lightning Talks track may fill up early. We cannot accept lightning talks until the open-source requirements are met, and so waiting with that until the deadline risks that the track is full by that time. We ask all submitters of lightning talks to be willing to also serve as reviewers of such, as described above. Lightning talks are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Full talks (closed), 2) Challenge entries, 3) Software bazaar demonstrations, and 4) Birds-of- a-Feather gatherings. The Call for Challenge entries remains open (see http://ievobio.org/challenge.html) , and information on the Software Bazaar and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions 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, if a submitted talk concerns a specific software system for use by the research community, that software 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.

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FOSS4G and Biodiversity
by Javier de la Torre 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Dear all, I dont know if you have heard of a conference called FOSS4G about open source software for GIS (http://2010.foss4g.org). This year the conference just happen to be in Barcelona, very conveniently. This is the most important conference for the GIS open source community and you can find there all the projects around it. The conference really has a nice atmosphere and I believe you get to learn a lot. For example on things like PostGIS, Geoserver, QuantumGIS, Openlayers, etc... Because of 2010 is the international year on biodiversity I am trying to push the participation from the biodiversity informatics and conservation community on it. I know lot of organizations on this community are moving into Open Source recently, so I think this is a great place to discuss challenges, experiences etc. The idea is to have enough people attending from this community to create a side event specific to biodiversity. Last year for example they created one event around interoperability of projects on Climate Change. What about something similar for biodiversity? The deadline for paper submissions and presentations is in 2 days, I know it is tight, and it would help me a lot to get support from the organizers if we get a decent submission on biodiversity/conservation topics. Considering that Biodiversity is deeply linked to Geospatial information I think it could be a great venue to push the requirements from our community into the development of Open Source GIS that most of us are using anyway. If you need help on the process of submitting or in creating the abstract, please let me know. And if you submit one also let me know so that I can tell the organizers and group them. Here is the URL by the way: http://2010.foss4g.org/presentations.php Thanks! Javier de la Torre www.vizzuality.com

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http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc gone?
by Bob Morris 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc seems to be gone. This breaks aggressive application schema validation because(?) tdwg_dw_core.xsd has <xs:include schemaLocation="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/tdwg_basetypes.xsd"/> Did I miss an announcement of some change? Bob -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: ram(a)cs.umb.edu web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1)617 287 6466

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Deadline extension for full talk abstracts for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)
by Hilmar Lapp 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

The deadline for submitting abstracts for full talks to the inaugural conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) has been extended by one week to Thursday, April 15, 2010. We hope that this will give those interested in contributing sufficient time to do so. Please see http://bit.ly/iEvoBio_CfA for the full Call for Abstracts and author instructions. We still expect to be able to notify accepted talks in time for the early registration deadline of iEvoBio (and Evolution). 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, and there is a Google group you can join at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce to receive announcements. 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)

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Student application deadline approaching for Google Summer of Code
by Hilmar Lapp 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Reminder: Student applications are due by April 9, 19:00 UTC (3pm EDT, 12pm PDT, 21:00 CEST), which is only a few days away. PHYLOINFORMATICS SUMMER OF CODE 2010 The Phyloinformatics Summer of Code program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for evolutionary informatics under the mentorship of experienced developers from around the world. The program is the participation of the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code(tm) (http://code.google.com/soc/ ). NESCent is particularly targeting students interested in both evolutionary biology and software development. All project ideas are flexible and many can be adjusted in scope to match the skills of the student. We also welcome novel project ideas that dovetail with student interests. INQUIRIES: phylosoc {at} nescent {dot} org. We strongly encourage all interested students to get in touch with us with their ideas as early on as possible. Full details about the 2010 NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code: http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2010 Google Summer of Code FAQ: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2010/faqs --------- Todd Vision and Hilmar Lapp National Evolutionary Synthesis Center http://nescent.org

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Reminder: Deadline for full talk abstracts for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)
by Hilmar Lapp 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for full talks to the inaugural conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) is Thursday, April 8, 2010, which less than 1 week away. Please see http://bit.ly/iEvoBio_CfA for the full Call for Abstracts and author instructions. As another reminder, full talks are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Lightning talks (5 mins long), 2) Challenge entries, 3) Software bazaar demonstrations, and 4) Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings. The Call for Challenge entries is also open (see http://ievobio.org/ challenge.html). Tentative submission deadlines are listed on the conference website (http://ievobio.org/program.html#dates). 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, and there is an announcment-only Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce . You can use the group's RSS feed (see above URL), or join the group to receive announcements by email. 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)

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