A new Darwin Core (DwC) Hour + 2BBQs! are almost here:

Imagining a global gazetteer of georeferences

This Darwin Core Hour will consist of a 1hs Webinar and two 2hs BBQ sessions.

Please see Webinar and BBQs Details and Meeting Links at https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-2-bbqs-imagining-global-gazetteer-georeferences

Abstract:

We want our georeferencing to be just right: complete, as accurate as possible, and usable for research. However, it takes a great effort and resources to do so, right? Although the majority of the records shared online are not georeferenced, we have invested a huge, collective effort already; there ARE a lot of georeferenced locations already published. In GBIF, for example, there are >54M unique location strings that are georeferenced, affecting >530M occurrence records. We know that many collection/observation sites tend to be repeated across institutions and even taxa. Could we take advantage of all the effort already invested by the community? Could we use those georeferences to complete records that do not have them?

The answer is: (probably) yes, and it would be awesome! In this Darwin Core Hour and BBQ we will present and discuss the idea of building a global gazetteer of georeferenced localities for everyone to use.

When:

Darwin Core Hour Time (~1 Hour 13:00 to 14:00 UTC): 9:00 AM EDT, 10:00 AM ART, 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 13:00 GMT Click for your local time.
Darwin Core Hour BBQ 1 (Monday 4 May 2020, 14:00 to 16:00 UTC)
Darwin Core Hour BBQ 2 (Thursday 7 May 2020, 20:00-22:00 UTC) 4:00 PM EDT, 5:00 PM ART, 9:00 PM BST, 10:00 PM CEST, 20:00 GMT

EXTRAS:

Explore the Darwin Core Questions & Answers wiki: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki
See which of your questions have been asked and answered so far: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues
Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a webinar on a darwin core topic: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz

Happy Darwin Core and Data Quality, and hope to see you soon!

Paula Zermoglio, et al. from the Darwin Core Hour Team

(please kindly excuse cross-postings!)