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In Memoriam Dr Richard Pankhurst
by Mergen Patricia 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of TDWG we are very sorry to inform you that Richard John Pankhurst passed away on Tuesday 26 March after fighting oesophageal cancer for many years. He was a very important contributer and friend of TDWG, as can be judged from his short CV from the BioCISE directory: Dr Richard Pankhurst began his career in computing in the computer section at CERN, Geneva in 1963, and moving back to Cambridge to work on Computer-Aided Design in 1966. In 1971 he moved to the Botany School, Cambridge to begin work on his PANKEY programs for identification and key construction. This was continued at the Botany department of the Natural History Museum from 1974 until 1991, where he was for many years curator of the British herbarium, and also worked on the Flora Meso-Americana. "Biological Identification", 1978, was the first textbook on computer methods in identification. A new version of this book was published by C.U.P in 1991. Also published in that year was the Flora of the Outer Hebrides. With over 50 publications of refereed papers and books in the fields of taxonomic computing he has made major contributions to these fields. Dr. Pankhurst has been very active recently in programming and managing botanical databases (Flora Europaea, BSBI database and PANDORA) and systems with images. He was appointed Principal Scientific Officer at the RGB Edinburgh in 1991. Dr. Pankhurst served on various committees of British and international organizations, among others. Botanical Society of the British Isles, Committee for Scotland and Database Committee. Botanical Society of Scotland, Council. Taxonomic Databases Working Group, convener of Descriptors Group. International Organisation for Plant Information, co-convener of Information Systems Committee, Checklist Committee. Dr. Pankhurst was the head of the Department of Taxonomic Computing at RGBE. After his official retirement, he compiled a large database of the Rose family. His work on recording the wild flowers of the Outer Hebrides took him frequently to these remote islands on behalf of the Botanical Society of the British Isles. His interest in Taraxacum (dandelions) was acknowledged when a species found only on St. Kilda was named *Taraxacum pankhurstianum*. In Richard, not only a very important scientist was lost to our community, but also a very pleasant collaborator and friend . <patricia.mergen(a)africamuseum.be> Dr. Patricia Mergen (General Secretary of TDWG, on behalf of the Executive Committee) Head of Biodiversity Information and Cybertaxonomy Royal Museum for Central Africa Leuvensesteenweg 13 B-3080 Tervuren Belgium + 32 2 769 5 *626* patricia.mergen(a)africamuseum.be

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Cyber-infrastructure and Metadata Protocols: CAMP-4-Data Workshop
by DCMI Announce 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Cyber-infrastructure and Metadata Protocols: CAMP-4-Data Workshop (A Dublin Core-Science and Metadata (DC-SAM) Community/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop). ======================== --WHEN/WHERE: 6 September 2013 @ DC-2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, 9:00-18:00 --WORKSHOP URL: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data --AGENDA ONLINE: http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DC_2013_SAM_Science_and_Metadata_CAMP_… --DC-2013 URL: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc2013 ======================== **Registration required; you do not need to be presenting a paper or talk to participate. ==(REGISTRATION - 8:00-9:00)== ==INTRODUCTION== *9:00-9:30 - Welcome, workshop goals, logistics; participant introductions/Jane Greenberg/all *9:30-9:45 - The Metadata Zoo/Rebecca Koskela *9:45-10:00 - DCC Scheme Directory/Alex Ball ==INFRASTRUCTURE MODELS AND FRAMEWORKS== *10:00-10:15 - A 3-Layer Model for Metadata/Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson, Nikos Houssos and Brigitte Joerg *10:15-10:30 - Cross-Domain Metadata Interoperability: Lessons Learnt in INSPIRE Andrea Perego, Michael Lutz, Max Craglia and Silvia Dalla Costa ==USAGE AND TRACKING== *10:30-10:45 - Usage data for metadata properties to support open data registries and semantic wikis/Muriel Foulonneau, Sébastien Martin, Jacques Ducloy, Thierry Daunois and Slim Turki *10:45-11:00 - Provenance Central: More Mileage from Provenance Metadata/Bertram Ludaescher and Paolo Missier ==(BREAK - 11:00-11:30)== ==PID (PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS)== *11:30-11:45 - Persistent Identifiers for Terms in a Crowd-Sourced Vocabulary/John Kunze, Greg Janee, Christopher Patton *11:45-12:00 - Separation of Concerns: PID Information Types and Domain Metadata/Tobias Weigel and Timothy Dilauro ==APPLICATIONS== *12:00-12:15 - Ontology-Enabled Metadata Schema Generator: The Design Approach/Jian Qin, Xiaozhong Liu and Miao Chen *12:15-12:30 - Metadictionary: Advocating for a Community-driven Metadata Vocabulary Application/ Jane Greenberg, Angela Murillo, John Kunze, Sarah Callahan, Robert Guralnick, Greg Janee, Nassib Nassar, Christopher Patton, and Karthik Ram *12:30-12:40 - CLEPSYDRA Data Aggregation and Enrichment Framework/Cezary Mazurek, Marcin Mielnicki, Aleksandra Nowak, Krzysztof Sielski, Maciej Stroinski, Marcin Werla and Jan Wglarz *12:40-12:50 - RUresearch - Open Source Metadata Application Profile and Research Object Handling for Research Data/Grace Agnew and Mary Beth Weber *12:50-13:00 - Open discussion, setting the afternoon agenda; Brief remarks about RDA-3rd Plenary/Sandra Collins ==(LUNCH - 13:00-14:30)== ==BREAKOUT GROUPS== *14:30-14:40 - Overview of discussion topics *14:40-15:10 - Breakout groups, Session 1: Infrastructure and design, policy, human and social aspects. *15:10-15:40 - Breakout groups, Session 2 (topic rotation from session 1). *15:40-16:00 - Report back from breakout groups. ==(BREAK - 16:00-16:30)== ==BREAKOUT GROUPS/WORKSHOP WRAP-UP== *16:30-16:45 - Delegates propose/vote on 'special' topics. *16:45-17:15 - Self-selected groups discuss a topic each. *17:15-17:50 - Report back from each group; discussion of possible action points. *17:50-18:00 - Closing remarks. ==WORKSHOP ADJOURNED: 18:00==

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NISO/DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions
by DCMI Announce 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** =============================================================== NISO/DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions PRESENTER: Johannes Keizer & Caterina Caracciolo DATE: September 25, 2013 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (17:00-18:30 UTC) World Clock: http://bit.ly/18LAQwh INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/developing/ =============================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR: Open data is a crucial prerequisite for inventing and disseminating the innovative practices needed for agricultural development. To be usable, data must not just be open in principle -- i.e., covered by licenses that allow re-use. Data must also be published in a technical form that allows it to be integrated into a wide range of applications. This webinar describes the technical solutions adopted by a widely diverse global network of agricultural research institutes for publishing research results. The talk focuses on AGRIS, a central and widely-used resource linking agricultural datasets for easy consumption, and AgriDrupal, an adaptation of the popular, open-source content management system Drupal optimized for producing and consuming linked datasets. Agricultural research institutes in developing countries share many of the constraints faced by libraries and other documentation centers, and not just in developing countries: institutions are expected to expose their information on the Web in a re-usable form with shoestring budgets and with technical staff working in local languages and continually lured by higher-paying work in the private sector. Technical solutions must be easy to adopt and freely available. The webinar will be of interest to any institution seeking ways to publish and curate data in the Linked Data cloud. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Johannes Keizer has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 1998, primarily as head of the FAO documentation group. The bibliographic database AGRIS and the multilingual concept scheme AGROVOC were completely remodeled under his leadership. In the Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extensions, he heads a staff of 20 -- the AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services) team -- which provides standards, tools, and advice for FAO stakeholders. The AIMS Team provides the technical backbone for the global Coherence in Information forAgricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Initiative. Through EC framework projects such as NeON, D2Science, and agINFRA, the AIMS Team has channeled the results of innovative European research into the international work of FAO to combat hunger and poverty in the world. Caterina Caracciolo is senior information specialist at the FAO. After working at the National Council of Research (CNR) in Pisa, she joined FAO in 2006. Since then, she has worked on various aspects related to information management and sharing, with special focus on metadata. She is currently involved in the SemaGrow project and part of the AGROVOC management team at FAO. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam. REGISTRATION: Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern (16:00 UTC) on September 25, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. NISO/DCMI are holding six joint webinars in 2013. Register for three and receive the 4th for free. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/developing/

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