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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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Re: [tdwg] iDigBio Data Management Interest Group - Kickoff Webinar 7 August at 1 PM EDT
by Debbie Paul 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi All, Quick reminder about the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group - Kickoff Webinar Thursday 7 August 2014 1:00-2:00 PM EDT *What:* Webinar to kickoff a new iDigBio Data Management Interest Group <https://www.idigbio.org/content/data-management-interest-group-kickoff-webi…> *What format*: A short presentation will be followed by open discussion for all participants. *When:* Thursday 7 August 2014, 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT *Where: *http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt (nothing to install, use any browser) Headsets are recommended (they help remove echo). *Who: *All are welcome, please invite your colleagues, no registration needed. *Questions?* Please send to any member of the group: Data Management Interest Group <https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/IDigBio_Working_Groups#Data_Manageme…> See you soon! Deb Paul, et al *Wiki: *https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Management_Interest_Group (please excuse cross-postings) Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar --Deborah Paul, on Twitter @idbdeb iDigBio Technology Specialist Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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DC-2014 full-day workshop--"Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management"
by DCMI Announce 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management *Full-day Workshop @ DC-2014* *Wednesday, 8 October 2014* =============================================================== *LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA *VENUE:* Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/) *HOMEPAGE:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… *(Wednesday day-rate option available)* =============================================================== This DC 2014 special event will bring together experts and practitioners to explore archival description in the cultural heritage descriptive landscape, the emergence of authority files/identity description as an opportunity for cultural heritage cross-community collaboration, and provide attendees with the latest information on key metadata editing and management tools used by the working archivist. *Workshop Sponsors:* - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Host) - ArchivesPortal Europe (APEx) - ArchivesSpace - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - Europeana - Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia - ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) - OCLC (Europe) - University of Miami *Workshop Planning Committee:* - Daniel Pitti -- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia - Julianna Barrera-Gomez -- University of Texas at San Antonio - Eric Childress -- OCLC Research - Jen Schaffner -- OCLC Research - Ryan Hildebrand -- Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin The Workshop program is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives. You can register for the Workshop as a day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the full DC-2014 program at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… . Don't procrastinate, register now! Workshop space is limited. The Workshop and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Workshop date approaches. Eric Childress, OCLC DCMI Governing Board Chair-Elect

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DC-2014 Special Session: RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control
by DCMI Announce 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control *Half-day Special Session @ DC-2014* *Thursday, 9 October 2014 - 1:30-5:00* =============================================================== *LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA *VENUE:* AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center ( http://www.meetattexas.com/) *SESSION HOMEPAGE: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/rdfAP *CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… *(Thursday day-rate option available)* =============================================================== *Session Abstract: * This session will focus on establishing requirements for implementing Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers. In particular, our interests include the requirements necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which established and developing constraint languages remain valuable in our context. *Scope and Motivation: * Over the last fourteen years, the DCMI community has focused much of its efforts on the development of Application Profiles as a means to enable reuse of properties across multiple schemas, as well as constraint languages to express those profiles. Building on the DC-2013 special session Application Profiles as an Alternative to OWL Ontologies <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/APaltOO>, this session will explore the requirements for defining and implementing Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers and other implementers. In particular, our session will focus on the requirements necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which established and developing constraint languages, such as Description Set Profiles and Shape Expressions/RDF Data Shapes, remain valuable in our context. *Confirmed Panelists:* - Mark Matienzo (mark(a)matienzo.org), DPLA, USA (Facilitator) - Kevin Ford, Library of Congress, USA - Thomas Johnson, Oregon State University, USA - Eric Miller, Zepheira, USA - David Wood, 3 Round Stones, USA *Open Questions Guiding the Session:* 1. How can Application Profile-based validation provide meaningful feedback to a user editing a "record" or set of statements? 2. From the perspective of an implementor, what do we mean by "validation," and does this mean different things from the perspective of implementers building user-facing tools or automated systems to perform these checks? 3. How are existing constraint languages valuable to implementers, particularly if the tools we are building cannot interpret or act on them natively? 4. Should we prioritize developing tools that can interpret serialized constraint definitions, or ensuring that our tools and systems can serialize their constraints into one of these languages? *Special Session Sponsors:* - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - DCMI Technical Board You can register using the day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the full DC-2014 program at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… . Don't procrastinate, register now! The Conference discount hotel block rate at the AT&T Center ends 12 September. This Special Session and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival ( http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as the Conference dates approaches. Mark Matienzo *Director of Technology, DPLA*

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DC-2014 in Austin, Texas, USA--Early Registration closing soon
by DCMI Announce 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

***Please excuse the cross-posting*** *DC-2014: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory"* =============================================================== *DATES: * 8-11 October 20114 *LOCATION: *Austin, Texas, USA *WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 *EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSE:* *6 September 2014* *REGISTRATION: * http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… =============================================================== *It is just under two weeks until the closing of Early Registration for DC-2014*, the International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications. If you work or study in any sector of the metadata ecosystem, you will not want to miss DC-2014 in Austin, Texas. In addition to an excellent set of peer reviewed full papers, project reports and posters, there is an an array of pre- and post-Conference tutorials and workshops, Conference Special Sessions and Best Practices Posters & Demonstrations: *Tutorials & Workshops:* - *Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management* (full day workshop at the Harry Ransom Center) - *Training the Trainers for Linked Data* (full day, hands-on workshop) - *RDF Validation in the Cultural Heritage Community* (1/2 day tutorial) - *Overview: Positioning DCMI & Dublin Core in the Metadata Ecosystem* (1/2 day tutorial) *Special Sessions:* - RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control (sponsored by Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) & DCMI Technical Board) - Schema.org, SchemaBibExtend -- Structured Data on the Web (sponsored by OCLC & Yandex) - BIBFRAME -- Expressing and Connecting Bibliographic Data (sponsored by the Library of Congress) - DCMI Roundtable (experts on BIBFRAME, Europeana Data Model (EDM), DPLA Metadata Application Profile (MAP), Schema.org/SchemaBibExtend, and more -- sponsored by DCMI/Technical Board) The program is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/program14 and the papers, project report and poster abstracts are available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/abstracts-2014. *Don't procrastinate, register now!* The Conference weekend caps the second week of the *Austin City Limits Music Festival* (http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as Conference time approaches.

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