September 2010 - tdwg - lists.tdwg.org

EOL Rubenstein Fellows Competition - deadline 30 Sept 2010
by Gail Kampmeier 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

EOL Rubenstein Fellows Competition Richard Allen, a Presidential Management Fellow with the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) working out of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, contacted me to help spread the word about an opportunity for early career folks and mentors in the EOL Rubenstein Fellows Competition http://www.eol.org/content/page/fellows, whose deadline has been extended to 30 Sept. 2010. Please help spread the word to those who might be interested in this great opportunity! AND Reviewers Needed Tanya Dewey, the Fellows Coordinator, is also looking for reviewers of the applications in the following disciplines: conservation biology invasive species fungi insects arachnids bacteria protozoa fish (bony, lobe-finned, sharks and rays, anything!) crustaceans algae cnidarians sponges or, basically, any invertebrate group! Reviewer commitment would be to review up to 10 proposals and provide comments. Proposals are 2 pages plus supporting documents and the reviews would take place in October. Selection Committee If you would like to be on the selection committee, a bit more work would be involved, requiring more reviews and a half day meeting to make final decisions. Contact Tanya for additional information tdewey(a)eol.org. I hope you will consider encouraging a promising young professional to apply for this fellowship and/or volunteer to take part in the review process! Cheers! Gail +++++++ If you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau Gail E. Kampmeier Illinois Natural History Survey Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign +++++++

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GBIF Knowledge Organization survey
by Bob Morris 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

An earlier somewhat erroneous, version of this escaped to tdwg(a)lists.tdwg.org. If you are forwarding it, please use this one. Apologies for deluging you....Bob Morris Dear colleague, The team listed below is charged by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) with developing a position paper about its future needs for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), a rubric which includes thesauri, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, gazetteers, and other such resources. The paper will cover tools, impediments to deployment, training requirements, etc. After we draft it, the position paper will be put forth for a period of public comment before final recommendations to GBIF. In order to put together the position paper, we solicit opinions, experiences, needs, and resources already in place about Knowledge Organization for biodiversity research. Please go to http://surveymonkey.com/GBIFKOSurvey to participate in the survey. We especially value your input about points you feel the survey doesn’t cover. Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues or mailing lists you think relevant, hopefully to people who may not have seen it already. Thanks GBIF KOS position paper team Bob Morris, Convenor, Terry Catapano, Donald Hobern, Hilmar Lapp, Norman Morrison, Natasha Noy, Mark Schildhauer, Dave Thau September 7, 2010 -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)

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Survey on biodiversity Knowledge Organization
by Bob Morris 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Dear colleague, The team listed below is charged by the Global Biological Information Facility (GBIF) with developing a position paper about its future needs for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), a rubric which includes thesauri, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, gazetteers, and other such resources. The paper will cover tools, impediments to deployment, training requirements, etc. After we draft it, the position paper will be put forth for a period of public comment before final recommendations to GBIF. In order to put together the position paper, we solicit opinions, experiences, needs, and resources already in place about Knowledge Organization for biodiversity research. Please go to http://surveymonkey.com/GBIFKOSurvey to participate in the survey. We especially value your input about points you feel the survey doesn’t cover. Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues or mailing lists you think relevant, hopefully to people who may not have seen it already. Thanks GBIF KOS position paper team Bob Morris, Convenor, Terry Catapano, Donald Hobern, Hilmar Lapp, Norman Morrison, Natasha Noy, Mark Schildhauer, Dave Thau September 7, 2010 -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)

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