September 2017 - BID-Community

Webinar: Crowdsourcing Basics: What is it, and will it work for your collection? - the Milwaukee Public Museum experience
by Deborah Paul 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Greetings All, RE: Crowdsourcing Basics: What is crowdsourcing, and will it work for your collection? - the Milwaukee Public Museum experience. WHEN: Wednesday 20 September at 12 PM EDT, 11 AM CDT. WHERE: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room (Headsets for best experience!). WHO: Presenters: Alyssa Caywood, Collection Digitization Project Manager, Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) and Julia Colby, Vertebrate & Invertebrate Collections Manager MPM; Moderator: Elizabeth (Libby) Ellwood, Research Fellow - LaBrea Tar Pits, WeDigBio organizer (and former iDigBio Post Doc). Abstract. Crowdsourced transcription projects are used by collection managers across the country to fulfill their data entry capture needs. Intrigued, but not sure crowdsourcing is right for you and your collection? Our discussion will cover evaluating your collection and planning a crowdsource transcription project, plus suggest platforms and tips for evaluating which platform might work for you. We will share what we’ve learned from crowdsourcing transcriptions for our own collections and from hosting a WeDigBio event in 2016. Join us to explore whether crowdsourcing is a tool that you should add to your data management toolbox. And, find out more about ways to participate in WeDigBio 2017 https://www.wedigbio.org/. Please share -- this is crowdsourcing afterall! See you Wednesday, Deborah Paul, on behalf of Alyssa, Julia, and Libby Tips for best webinar experience: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison and Member-At-Large, SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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Darwin Core Hour 9: Kurator Web - for Cleaner Biodiversity Data
by Deborah Paul 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hi Everyone, Please excuse cross-postings. RE: Darwin Core Hour 9: Kurator Web - for Cleaner Biodiversity Data After hearing from aggregators last month, and all about the Data Quality efforts of the TDWG DQ IG in September, we shift gears to a project called "Kurator" which offers a suite of tools that any data provider (individual or institution) can use to investigate data quality. DAY and TIME: Tuesday Oct 24 @ 11 AM EDT, 12 PM ART, 3 PM UTC, 5 PM CEST DETAILED Abstract: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-kurator-web-cleaner-biodiv… WHERE: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room Related Links Kurator Web http://kurator.acis.ufl.edu/kurator-web/ Kurator Web code https://github.com/kurator-org/kurator-web Kurator Workflows https://github.com/kurator-org/kurator-validation/wiki Abstract. When we think about biodiversity data and its use, we often immediately wonder about the data quality and how to improve it. The Kurator project is one of the initiatives addressing this issue, and aims at building data quality control and enhancement tools that can be readily used by people with different technical skill levels. One such tool is the Kurator Web application. This tool allows users to execute web-based data quality improvement workflows on biodiversity data, especially on data shared using Darwin Core terms, without the need for programming expertise. In this webinar we will demonstrate the use of Kurator Web to run pre-existing data quality workflows, some of which include: aligning datasets with Darwin Core terms, comparing unique values in datasets with controlled vocabularies, and providing suggestions for improvements for existing data. Finally, we will provide some context on how these tools can integrate with broader workflows and some perspective on the future of biodiversity data quality. Brought to you by the Darwin Core Hour Team - Connecting Biodiversity Data Communities Deb Paul, et al PS Check out past and future DCH Webinars https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars Hints for best Adobe Connect experience: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing Let us know if you'd like to moderate / present / plan future Darwin Core Hours https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison and Member-At-Large, SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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Avoiding repetitive data entry
by Monica 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Best wishes to all who have completed their projects. We are still working away on publishing our datasets, and have a question for the community. We have many datasets coming from one collection, so the metadata institutions, contributors, etc. is the same for all of them. Is there a way to just copy the metadata record in the IPT so we don't have to re-create it every time? Monica Morrison MWK_email_signature_logo P.O. Box HA 60 HAK Maun Botswana Tel. 267 686-2825 Fax 267 686-2825 Mobile +267 71757223 Email: moediwakitso(a)btcmail.co.bw Skype: monica_morrison Twitter: monicamorrisong <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/monica-morrison/11/466/3b0/> linked_in_profile Moedi wa Kitso is a trading company of Burning Log (Pty) Ltd.

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