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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-biodive... 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

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