TDWGers!
If you know anyone suitable, pass along this job ad!
Summary: Find a unique niche that splits the middle between
biodiversity scientists working to share knowledge about the
biological world and a development team with a strong focus on agile
development to bring that knowledge to the web in new ways. We are a
collaborative team of programmers, informaticians and domain
scientists in the realm of biodiversity and conservation working
together on a National Science Foundation funded project called
Biological Science Collections Tracker (BiSciCol - pronounded
“bicycle”; more about us here: http://biscicol.blogspot.com/). The
goal of BiSciCol is to use semantic web approaches to develop an
infrastructure for tagging and tracking scientific collections and all
of their derivatives. In order for BiSciCol to fulfill its mission,
scientific collections data and downstream data products such as
sequences, genomes, images, etc. need to be brought into a semantic
web framework, which presents a set of technological and social
challenges. The BiSciCol project is recruiting a semantic web and
database developer with working knowledge of global unique
identifiers, and their implementation within and across databases and
data aggregators.
More about the position and application process here: http://t.co/C7dvQX9g
Best regards, Rob Guralnick
http://robgur.googlepages.com
(Apologies for cross-posting).
Please take some time for the following survey about metadata on
evolutionary trees. Your responses will inform both the Minimum
Information about a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA) standard and also
the metadata collected and used to assemble the Open Tree of Life.
Cheers,
Karen
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From: <evoldir(a)evol.biology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:37 AM
Subject: Other: Minimum Information about a Phylogenetic Analysis
To: karen.cranston(a)gmail.com
What data makes a phylogenetic tree useful?
When publishing a phylogenetic tree, or evaluating a tree, we
generally want more than simply the tree structure - for example, who
inferred the tree? using what data and what methods? what are the
organisms at the tips? what are the support values? Of course, those
who use / evaluate trees want as much data as possible about a tree.
Those who publish / database trees want a quick and simple submission
system. How do we balance these sometimes conflicting viewpoints?
The following survey asks you to categorize various data elements
about trees in terms of 1) how useful is the data? and 2) how
difficult is it to collect? The survey should take about 10 minutes.
https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b2upIMII4fxJkAA
This survey is brought to you by MIAPA and Open Tree of Life. MIAPA
(http://www.evoio.org/wiki/MIAPA) aims to develop a formal spec for
Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis. The Open Tree of
Life (http://opentreeoflife.org) is collecting input phylogenies for
synthesis into a comprehensive tree of life. We will share the results
via the MIAPA and Open Tree of Life websites, and results will inform
the MIAPA standard as well as the collection trees for Open Tree of
Life.
If you have any questions about this project, please contact Karen
Cranston (karen.cranston(a)nescent.org).
Thank you!
Karen Cranston
(on behalf of MIAPA and Open Tree of Life)
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
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Karen Cranston, PhD
Training Coordinator and Informatics Project Manager
nescent.org
@kcranstn
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******** PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING ********
WEBINAR: NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data
DATE: August 22, 2012
TIME: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
EVENT WEBPAGE: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/scientific_data/
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
The past few years have seen increased attention to national and
international policies for data archiving and sharing. Chief motivators
include the proliferation of digital data and a growing interest in
research data and supplemental information as a part of the framework for
scholarly communication. Key objectives include not only preservation of
scientific research data, but making data accessible to verify research
findings and support the reuse and repurposing of data.
Metadata figures prominently in these undertakings, and is critical for the
success of any data repositories or archiving initiative, hence increased
attention to metadata for scientific data -- specifically for metadata
standards development and interoperability, data curation and metadata
generation processes, data identifiers, name authority control (for
scientists), Linked Data, ontology and vocabulary work, and data citation
standards.
This NISO/DCMI webinar will provide a historical perspective and an
overview of current metadata practices for managing scientific data, with
examples drawn from operational repositories and community-driven data
science initiatives. It will discuss challenges and potential solutions for
metadata generation, identifiers, name authority control, Linked Data, and
data citation.
SPEAKERS
Jane Greenberg, professor at the School of Information and Library Science
(SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of
the SILS Metadata Research Center, is well known for research and writing
on topics ranging from automatic metadata creation to metadata best
practices, ontology research, Semantic Web, data repositories, thesauri,
and scientific data curation. She has served as Principal Investigator or
partner on a number of grants from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services, National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of
Health, and actively participates in organizations such as the American
Library Association, American Society for Information Science and
Technology, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Jane is the recipient
of the 2012 Margaret Mann Citation from the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS).
Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative, has recently co-chaired the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working
Group and the W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.
REGISTRATION
Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on August 22, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI
members and students.
Can’t make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the
recorded archive for one year.
Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/scientific_data/
