Many thanks,
Quentin.
Changes made.
Dmitry
From: DFFU_IAS [mailto:dffu_ias-bounces@lists.gbif.org]
On Behalf Of Quentin Groom
Sent: 07 July 2016 07:13
To: Task Group on Data Fitness for Use in Research on Invasive Alien Species
Subject: Re: [DFFU_IAS] see you soon & new IAS paper
Hi Dmitry,
regarding the survey, perhaps we should allow multiple answers to questions 5 and 6. Also, we might split up the second page of questions into two pages, because it looks rather long at the moment.
Regards
Quentin
Dr. Quentin Groom
(Botany and Information Technology)
Botanic Garden Meise
Domein van Bouchout
B-1860 Meise
Belgium
Landline; +32 (0) 226 009 20 ext. 364
FAX: +32 (0) 226 009 45
Skype name: qgroom
Website: www.botanicgarden.be
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Dmitry Schigel <dschigel@gbif.org> wrote:
Hello group,
I believe Melodie and Quentin are in Leipzig already, and the rest of us are coming by the end of the week.
I remind you that we meet on 9 July, Saturday at noon at the iDIV building, local arrival tips and agenda is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCca5wyJYN1fly3xUeSaAGe2q_H-6lWgiN4AdDrRFEA/edit. We will start by a sandwich lunch, and the actual meeting will start at 13:00.
Because our effective time was compressed to about two days, from mid-Saturday to Monday afternoon, it would be very nice if you could complete / think about the agreed “homework” tasks before we meet.
Here are the outstanding tasks:
1.
Doodle for the dates for the second meeting
http://doodle.com/poll/6kv5x2ng7sst32nr:
Melodie, John.
2.
Survey was now drafted in the Survey Monkey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MM6RW6T, feel free to test-answer this and send me you suggestions, preferably before Wed next week. We will of course continue in Leipzig. I also attach a PDF
version of the same draft if you are more comfortable with the printout. Note that the survey is much shorter than the ones used by GBIF fitness for use groups before (which maybe a good thing), but also some questions and answers were formulated differently.
You might want to compare your latest draft with the earlier surveys archived for you here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzrSPi8wkHZ8Qnk0X3NuSmVhblU.Please refer to a particular question number and add your comments to top part of the same google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AIrL5yFvG-Oj1fyGPS1h9vRbSGCt8FFKD2ZuvIC6mZ4/edit In addition here are some good points from Mette Munk, a new secretary at GBIF who helped me with survey:
·
….discuss, which questions are the most important for you to get answers to. People tend to lose interest/concentration after a while so it’s best to put the less important questions at the end – for instance which institution they’re
from, what their role is – although it may seem to make more sense to put this at the top - it’s questions that the person answering doesn’t need to think about, so it might be better to put them at the end.
·
…. think about what exactly you need the answers for? There are a lot of multiple choice questions and free text questions – this will provide a very vague survey, but if what you need is input and ideas then this would be ok – but
if you need answers to specific questions you should make sure they’re in the questionnaire and that the answer options are very specific (yes/no, 2 years/10 years etc.).
3.
The expert list
for use in survey is nearly complete, only names from Gregory
are missing. Feel free to add more than 10 key names!
4.
Please don’t postpone
adding your topics, ideas, section to the
report draft, the texts do not need to be perfect and final, it’s a working document. Use and contribute to collection of
resource documents and
references.
5.
A reminder that In/soon after Leipzig, according to
ToRs, and we are expected to produce a short
intermediate report in July 2016. In addition to here-we-are-we-started-to-work, we could include the section structure and some early recommendation that would take shape after Leipzig. This can be very short, 3-4 pages, and it is likely to be included
to the document package that is distributed before the GBIF Governing Board meeting, which will take place in October in Brasilia. As Shyama will be attending an IAS meeting in Samoa in August, the key points from the intermediate report could be packed into
the presentation. We are working on a GBIF slide doc template that could be a nice way to pack the intermediate report.
Here comes a reference from the June catch of literature tracking by GBIF
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-016-5826-8
See you soon,
Dmitry Schigel
Mobile
+45 30 45 02 25
E-mail
dschigel@gbif.org
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