Dear TDWG list subscribers,
(Please excuse our cross-posting.)
We are excited to announce that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the
Canadian Museum of Nature will host the 2017 Biodiversity Information
Standards (TDWG) conference in Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 1 - Oct. 6. Below, we
describe the conference and solicit proposals for workshops and symposia.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017. A call for contributed
papers and posters will be made in April 2017 after the symposia and
workshops have been selected and announced.
Standards for the description and exchange of biodiversity information help
promote research, support decision-making for conservation and planning,
and provide a means of communicating observations across taxa,
sub-disciplines, and political boundaries. The annual TDWG conference
serves two purposes:
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it is a forum for developing, refining and extending standards in
response to new challenges and opportunities; and
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it is a showcase for biodiversity informatics - much of which relies on
the specifications provided by TDWG and other standards organizations.
Our theme this year is "Data Integration in a Big Data Universe:
Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments". For more
information on the conference, including links to accommodations, please
visit https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017.
We invite you to submit proposals for workshops and symposia, which can be
organized around already established themes, or which can be used to
explore emerging topics of interest. At TDWG, a symposium is typically a
collection of talks, sometimes with a panel or open discussion; a workshop
may have talks, but typically encourages more active engagement through
training activities, or through facilitating consensus around a key issue.
Symposia and workshops addressing the conference theme are encouraged, but
other topics relating to biodiversity information management, integration,
analysis, and standards are also welcomed, such as:
- knowledge graphs
- metagenomics
- citizen science
- semantics and ontologies (e.g., sampling, traits)
- biological field station data management
- collections
- data visualization
- data quality assessment and improvement
- agricultural biodiversity
- conservation informatics
- illuminating dark data
- phyloinformatics
- ePublications
- standards for image processing (e.g. computer vision for organismal
identification)
- wikis for biodiversity knowledge.
For full consideration, please submit your proposal via email to
conf-submissions(a)tdwg.org by 1 March 2017. Proposals should be fewer than
400 words, and should include the following:
1. Names, email addresses, and affiliations of all organizers.
2. Whether the proposal is for a workshop or a symposium.
3. Whether the organizer(s) will accept unsolicited abstract submissions
(vs. inviting all speakers themselves).
4. Number of 90 minute sessions requested.
Please note: As mentioned above, this is a call for workshop and symposium
proposals only. The general call for contributed papers and posters will be
announced in April 2017, after the symposia and workshops have been
selected and announced. Please address questions to conference(a)tdwg.org.
Sincerely,
The 2017 TDWG Program Committee
Hi Again!
Just found out abstracts for SPNHC will be accepted through Monday Jan 16th. So if you didn't make yesterday's deadline - you have just a bit more time!
:-)
Deb
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> Hi all tdwg'rs
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> TODAY is the SPNHC 2017 Abstract Deadline. You're typing like mad,
> right? This year's SPNHC meeting presents a key opportunity to develop
> and explore some ideas for the SPNHC-TDWG 2018 meeting. Hoping to see
> lots of TDWG folks at SPNHC.
>
> Targeted at the collections community, TDWG areas related to natural
> history collections data standards, needs and developments for exchange
> formats, novel uses for ways to explore collections data and improve
> data quality, are just some topics that would be great.
>
> ONLINE Abstract Submission Form:
> http://www.spnhc2017denver.org/abstract-submission/
>
> The SPNHC 2017 theme is: "The Next Generation in Best Practices."
>
> There are 9 symposia to choose from:
> Disaster Preparedness
> Impacts of Changing Regulations
> Moving Collections
> New Solutions to Old Problems
> Public Access to Collections
> Sustainability
> Demo Camp
> Advances in Digitization Worldwide: an iDigBio Symposium
> Innovative Uses of Collections Data: an iDigBio Symposium
>
> SPNHC 2017: iDigBio call for SPNHC abstracts
> https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-call-abstracts SPNHC 2017 is
> in Denver, CO from June 18 - 24. See you there!
>
> Best,
> Deb and Shelley, et al at iDigBio
> (please excuse cross-postings)
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> -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar
> -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist
> iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison, SYNTHESYS3 Representative
> Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
> Florida State University
> Tallahassee, Florida 32306
> 850-644-6366
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Hi all tdwg'rs
TODAY is the SPNHC 2017 Abstract Deadline. You're typing like mad,
right? This year's SPNHC meeting presents a key opportunity to develop
and explore some ideas for the SPNHC-TDWG 2018 meeting. Hoping to see
lots of TDWG folks at SPNHC.
Targeted at the collections community, TDWG areas related to natural
history collections data standards, needs and developments for exchange
formats, novel uses for ways to explore collections data and improve
data quality, are just some topics that would be great.
ONLINE Abstract Submission Form:
http://www.spnhc2017denver.org/abstract-submission/
The SPNHC 2017 theme is: "The Next Generation in Best Practices."
There are 9 symposia to choose from:
Disaster Preparedness
Impacts of Changing Regulations
Moving Collections
New Solutions to Old Problems
Public Access to Collections
Sustainability
Demo Camp
Advances in Digitization Worldwide: an iDigBio Symposium
Innovative Uses of Collections Data: an iDigBio Symposium
SPNHC 2017: iDigBio call for SPNHC abstracts
https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-call-abstracts SPNHC 2017 is
in Denver, CO from June 18 - 24. See you there!
Best,
Deb and Shelley, et al at iDigBio
(please excuse cross-postings)
--
-- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar
-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist
iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison, SYNTHESYS3 Representative
Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
850-644-6366
Greetings!
If you are interested in participating in or receiving updates from the
joint RDA/TDWG Attribution metadata for the curation and maintenance of
collections please remember to join the group via the RDA website here
<https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/metadata-standards-attribution-physical-…>.
You will have to register with RDA and log in. We are having a
conference call to prepare for the next meeting
<https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-ninth-plenary-meeting-barcelona>
of the group in Barcelona. Please go to the doodle poll
<http://doodle.com/poll/8tfdq6mafr76wwep> to indicate when you are free
to join a call. In the future all messages about this group will be sent
through the mailing list of the group in RDA and TDWG, so please join at
least one, preferably both.
Thank you.
--
Anne E. Thessen, Ph.D.
The Data Detektiv, Owner and Founder
Ronin Institute, Research Scholar
443.225.9185
