October 2016 - DFFU_IAS - lists.gbif.org

upload you logos & final edits
by Dmitry Schigel 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Hi all, I have now uploaded the institution logos I got from John to this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzrSPi8wkHZ8WTBFWUM5dGJtbEU Please upload yours directly to this folder (drag and drop files from the original folder to the folder space or folder icon), or e-mail them to me, if this does not work. I hope we can fix the remaining outstanding issues soon and close the content so I can give to GBIF Communications for formatting and copy editing. Once done, you would have a chance to go through the formatted text and a slide doc (it helps to see the familiar text in a new packaging) before is published online and the GBIF news channels start advertising it. We need to remember to send it to all survey respondents. There is a chance to silently fix minor bugs also after the online publication, but I hope we won't use this opportunity too much. To ease the life for readers, I suggest the appendices will come in reverse order - this way we can make the main, narrative report plus table (currently appendix B) come together, and then a slide doc will be a separate file. Thanks, Dmitry

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edits
by Melodie McGeoch 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Morning/evening all Many thanks for the edits that are busy coming in. Just a quick note to say don't be concerned if you see some of your edit boxes disappear. I am busy accepting all the minor edits you are making as we go along so that the doc doesn't look too cluttered and so that we can better see the comments left that we still need tor resolved. Best Melodie -- Melodie A. McGeoch Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus (Address:18 Innovation Walk (Building 17), Rm 121), Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. Tel: +61 3 99020464, Mobile: +61 (0) 499 954180, E-mail: melodie.mcgeoch(a)monash.edu, ISI Researcher ID F-8353-2011, Research Group website: http://melodiemcgeoch.com/ *ORCID *http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3388-2241

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Draft final report for input by 25 October
by Melodie McGeoch 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

Dear John, Shyama, Varos, Greg, Quentin and Dmitry I have created a new folder called FINAL REPORT DRAFTS on the G Drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_uojZ1Ob6CzcE1TOF9tMEhlT1U In this folder are two documents for your inputs and editing: 1. A draft of the final report 2. A draft of Appendix B (Dmitry will provide Appendix A as the survey details) A few points: 1. I have collated, rationalised and inserted the recommendation tables into the word document of the draft report. As a result these will look a bit different to the versions you last saw and edited (I hope I have captured every ones' latest tables correctly!). I have inserted names next to each of these sections where I think your input will be valuable (this could be a different section to the one you originally worked on). 2. Throughout the doc I have identified places where input is needed from each of you. However please do read the document through and provide text and edits wherever you would like to. 3. This round is essentially for completing content. Don't worry about formatting. Please do add key references that clearly support some of the main points made. 4. If you make changes to the figs please don't do this in the document - edit the raw version and upload the revision into this new folder. Please send Shyama, Dmitry and Greg any suggested fig edits directly. *I am sure that you are all back to being focussed on your primary responsibilities, so thank you very much for bearing with us to get the report done.* If you could complete the first round of review by the 24th that would be great. I'll then finalise it, ask Dmitry and team for help with formatting and then send it back to you for any last edits. Muchas gracias Melodie -- Melodie A. McGeoch Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus (Address:18 Innovation Walk (Building 17), Rm 121), Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. Tel: +61 3 99020464, Mobile: +61 (0) 499 954180, E-mail: melodie.mcgeoch(a)monash.edu, ISI Researcher ID F-8353-2011, Research Group website: http://melodiemcgeoch.com/ *ORCID *http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3388-2241

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Travel reimbursement following DFFU-IAS meeting in Melbourne
by Susanne Sheldon 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Dear members of the task group, We hope you have all had a safe return from the task group meeting held in Melbourne last week. For the reimbursement of your travel expenses, could you please complete the attached reimbursement form according to the GBIF travel guidelines and e-mail it and accompanying receipts to travel(a)gbif.org<mailto:travel@gbif.org> for us to process. For your information, the GBIF travel guidelines are also attached. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. With best regards Susanne ........................... Susanne Sheldon HR Manager GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 2100 Copenhagen Denmark Phone: +45-35321470 Direct phone: +45-35321490 Fax: +45-35321480 e-mail: slsheldon(a)gbif.org<mailto:slsheldon@gbif.org> www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Report and thanks
by Melodie McGeoch 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Morning all Many thanks for your e-mails with text and clarification of final sets of recommendations. I've placed a powerpoint on taxonomic uncertainty from Arthur Chapman on the G drive, and will also include the report on the data quality discussion when they send it through. I'll be in touch with any specific queries or follow up. In the mean time, many thanks again for the enjoyable, stimulating discussion in Melbourne. I do hope you all had smooth travels home. Best Melodie -- Melodie A. McGeoch Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus (Address:18 Innovation Walk (Building 17), Rm 121), Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. Tel: +61 3 99020464, Mobile: +61 (0) 499 954180, E-mail: melodie.mcgeoch(a)monash.edu, ISI Researcher ID F-8353-2011, Research Group website: http://melodiemcgeoch.com/ *ORCID *http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3388-2241

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we are in meeting room 1
by Dmitry Schigel 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hi, We are in meeting room 1 in Monash Club Dmitry

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FW: IAS in East Africa
by Dmitry Schigel 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

FYI some update from Siro Masinde Dmitry From: Siro Masinde Sent: 11 October 2016 18:47 To: Dmitry Schigel Subject: RE: IAS in East Africa Thanks Dmitry, I was aware of the project which is a good update on what CABI has done in East Africa. By the way I consulted for CABI way back around 2003 on invasive species of phytosanitary importance, so they have been working on IAS especially in Kenya for many years since their Africa office is in Nairobi. The Museum in Nairobi has also worked on IAS for many years, mostly species lists, identification and distribution, see for example http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/eafrinet/plants.htm Best, Siro From: Dmitry Schigel Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 3:46 AM To: Task Group on Data Fitness for Use in Research on Invasive Alien Species (dffu_ias(a)lists.gbif.org<mailto:dffu_ias@lists.gbif.org>) Cc: Siro Masinde Subject: FW: IAS in East Africa FYI from Arthur Chapman: DS From: Arthur Chapman [mailto:biodiv_2@achapman.org] Sent: 08 October 2016 07:48 To: Dmitry Schigel Subject: IAS in East Africa Dmitry- this may be of Interest http://jrsbiodiversity.org/grants/cab-international/ Cheers Arthur -- ---------------------- Arthur Chapman (Australian Biodiversity Information Services) PO Box 35 Ballan Vic 3342 Australia +61 (0)400 400 326

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FW: New analytics online
by Dmitry Schigel 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hello group, The new Google analytics on GBIF.org just came. Hope there are some answers to your Tuesday questions, Tim Robertson writes: DS From: Tim Robertson Sent: 11 October 2016 21:16 To: GBIFStaff Cc: Markus Döring Subject: New analytics online Hi all, This is just to let you know that the new data trends are now online: http://www.gbif.org/analytics/global There is a drop overall which is due to deletions following the licensing consultation and was wholly expected. The drop is not as large as we might have had indicating that all the effort spent in the consultation period has been effective - well done to all involved. ... Thanks, Tim

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FW: the home for eDNA / nextgen
by Dmitry Schigel 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra Dmitry

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the home for eDNA / nextgen
by Shchigel, Dmitry S 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra Dmitry

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FYI an early peek into the future look of GBIF.org
by Dmitry Schigel 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

FYI an early peek into the future look of GBIF.org DS

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wrap up time and GBIF dinner on Wed, and the Thu morning plan
by Dmitry Schigel 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hello all, We just revised the plan and a summary/wrap up will take place at Monash University Clayton, 32 Exhibition walk, Monash Club, meeting room 2 on Wednesday, 12 Oct at 15:30-17:00: https://goo.gl/maps/71iVTWT6qVv. Arthur, Lee, Miles, see you at 15:30 tomorrow. There will be a GBIF dinner on that day, GBIF is inviting the IAS task group, Arthur, Lee and Miles. Melodie is kindly arranging a shuttle from campus to the city and back to Quest Glen Waverley. More information on the restaurant later. We also agreed that it would be a good idea for all IAS and DQ people to start the Thursday 13 Oct program by meeting at the same place, Monash club at 9:00 and then see how we divide ourselves in the morning. I will start Thursday in the data quality room, and we expect the IAS people to join the DQ session as soon as the work on the IAS report is finished: earliest 9:00, latest around lunch. Dmitry

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Re Look-up tables we use
by Shyama Pagad 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shyama Pagad Program Officer IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group University of Auckland, New Zealand Tel +64210754381 email: s.pagad(a)auckland.ac.nz skype: shyama.pagad www.issg.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native species they contain by increasing awareness of the impacts of invasive species; and of ways to prevent their spread and, control or eradicate them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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replies to Monday questions
by Dmitry Schigel 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hello, Here comes some replies to our Monday questions: >From Tim Hirsch on GIASIP: ...the following points to the task group regarding GIASIP. Tim might get more news from IUCN UK headquarters and Kevin Smith and possibly from Donald Hobern, too. * We cannot at present be definite about the future of the Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership (GIASIP) as its continuation as a funded activity will depend on decisions at the CBD COP13 in Mexico in December. Discussions are still under way around mechanisms that may bring this onto the agenda of COP13, including with reference to the Honolulu Challenge formulated at the World Conservation Congress in September. * However, we can share the main vision from GBIFS point of view as to the direction of this partnership which would be focussed on: o Completing and maintaining GRIIS as the authoritative list of invasive species for all countries and island territories, maintained as a curated and (where possible) peer-reviewed set of authoritative checklists drawn from expert editors with full source references. o Incorporating GRIIS lists into GBIF.org so that e.g. all relevant species pages could reference inclusion on a GRIIS country invasive list and provide appropriate links. o GBIF would facilitate publication of IAS checklists using standard tools and vocabularies, enabling any partner or organisation to share those lists both directly through GBIF.org and as a contribution towards up to date versions of GRIIS, including e.g. Using GBIF tools to standardise taxonomies. o GBIF would continue to maintain a GIASIP repository through an IPT that would enable the integrated country/species/status lists to be ingested by any platform including e.g. CBD country profiles through the Clearing House Mechanism. * We would welcome recommendations from the IAS task group for key functionalities beyond GBIF.org that could be incorporated into future work of GIASIP based on the identified needs of invasion biology research - these recommendations will be helpful in the discussions of funding for GIASIP at COP13, and might even be included as an information document for COP13. >From Tim Robertson on subscription for updates: * No. I'm afraid there are no alerting functions currently, nor are they planned. We've pondered this a few times, and it could be done, but is not going to be something within the next 6 months or so.

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Re IBOLD
by Shyama Pagad 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

>From Alex Borisenko FYI About 82% of species listed in GISD have a match in the BOLD database. Many of these species are represented from several countries across their current ranges. Please note that this estimate is conservative because, as a first pass, I was only looking at strict syntax matches. Thus, a single typo or nomenclature discrepancy would turn up a mismatch. IF we do some taxonomic data cleansing and resolving of synonymy, I am sure this percentage will rise further. The COI sequence coverage is at 37% but this is because many invasive species are plants, and we use a different set of DNA barcode markers for them. I cannot get summary statistics for matK and rbcL as easily. If your list could be parsed by animals and plants, I should be able to get more accurate stats. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shyama Pagad Program Officer IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group University of Auckland, New Zealand Tel +64210754381 email: s.pagad(a)auckland.ac.nz skype: shyama.pagad www.issg.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native species they contain by increasing awareness of the impacts of invasive species; and of ways to prevent their spread and, control or eradicate them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ebbe Nielsen and gaps
by Dmitry Schigel 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Here is the description of the Challenge, the winners will be announced by the end of the month http://www.gbif.org/newsroom/news/2016-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-announced. Scroll down for the compilation of the most recent papers on data gaps I made, this suggested reading list complements the recently published gaps guide http://www.gbif.org/resource/82566. Dmitry

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DwC 1-pager for the report
by Dmitry Schigel 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJLvH9t_GPV8PSwtvFtIaytz2twJIJT931SxL_g…

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FW: Update to GBIF.org’s terms of service
by Dmitry Schigel 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

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FW: IAS in East Africa
by Dmitry Schigel 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

FYI from Arthur Chapman: DS From: Arthur Chapman [mailto:biodiv_2@achapman.org] Sent: 08 October 2016 07:48 To: Dmitry Schigel Subject: IAS in East Africa Dmitry- this may be of Interest http://jrsbiodiversity.org/grants/cab-international/ Cheers Arthur -- ---------------------- Arthur Chapman (Australian Biodiversity Information Services) PO Box 35 Ballan Vic 3342 Australia +61 (0)400 400 326

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link to G drive
by Dmitry Schigel 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrSPi8wkHZ8YTN1UUhuMnZlMDg

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from Quest to Monash on day I
by Dmitry Schigel 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Hi all, I just arrived to Quest and hope we all are here or on the way. I see there is a bus from G Waverley at 9:23 tomorrow morning. Shall we meet at the stop of bus 737 there, at the station at about 9:15? I probably start walking form Quest at around 8:30, I understood that there is some shopping center with breakfast options on the way, I plan to have a quick bite there. Note, that you need to have your Myki card ready before you go to the bus = before we meet at the bus stop. Because I am leaving on Sat, I just got a week long pass (39 AUD), but you might like to load money - I was told that single ride is 4 AUD, so load accordingly. I found it easier to get the card from Seven Eleven, from a human being. Google suggest that there is a faster connection by 742 https://goo.gl/maps/95VJiic9wDz, but tomorrow on day 1, I will probably just follow the instructions. I've a local SIM card, my number in AU is +61 (0) 415 253 830. See you later today. Dmitry

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Arrival instructions for Melbourne, agenda
by Dmitry Schigel 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Hello group, Here comes the information package for the Melbourne meeting, including information on logistics, check-in, agenda and tasks. Kindly check the attached carefully before you leave and feel free to be back to me if you have any questions. Melodie adds that if anyone is uncertain about their tasks they should contact her, and if anyone wants to volunteer for some tasks that don't have leads please let her know, too. Contact details of Melodie and Gillis are in the attached, those include mobile phone numbers for urgent contact situations. My contact details did not change and are repeated below. Happy homework time and safe travels, Best regards, Dmitry Schigel, PhD Programme Officer for Content Analysis and Use Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø DENMARK Office +45 35 32 14 85 Mobile +45 30 45 02 25 E-mail dschigel(a)gbif.org Web www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/> [GBIFlogoNO_TEXT_50%]

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Survey closed, see files in Google drive
by Dmitry Schigel 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

Hello group, I have now closed the IAS survey, we've got 208 responses: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzrSPi8wkHZ8cmRpLTNvOHRTVFE?usp=sha… The summaries are found as PPT and as PDF. Individual responses in the Google table in the far right contain the valuable body of the free text comments. As agreed, in the secretariat we will compile of suggested IAS literature. We will be sending arrival instructions and agenda documents shortly. Thanks, Dmitry

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