Dear group,
Many thanks for the fantastic and efficient three days in Leipzig. I hope you had smooth and problem free trip home / to your next destination. Thanks Melodie for the action summary.
Here come some additions from my side:
1. Standard text and link to survey
2. Next Skype call
3. Answers from Tim Robertson
4. Links reminder
Standard text and link to survey
I suggest you track your experts by labelling their names in the Google tabel in the new SurveyStatus column here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Byyg7vYAqPoWCdkI_wU6PLsycQw6nq4J4ZSx303y6F8/edit#gid=0
You might like to use categories like “invited”, “completed” etc.
Gregory, you might like to add your experts to the same table. You can now take the survey yourselves for real, but some groups decided to ignore own replies as biased, other analysed them anyhow as they were feeling that their opinions are part of the spectrum.
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As part of a broader global strategy to support applications of biodiversity data, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, www.gbif.org) has convened a Task Group to assess data fitness for use in research on alien and invasive species. GBIF is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments.
GBIF allows anyone, anywhere to access data about all types of life on Earth, shared across national boundaries via the Internet. By encouraging and helping institutions to publish data according to common standards, GBIF enables new research, and informs better decisions to conserve and sustainably use the planet's biological resources.
In this survey, our use of the terms alien and invasive are broad, and include the multiple related terms used in the field of invasion biology, such as introduced and non-native.
Your inputs will improve the suitability and access to data for broad scale use in invasion biology and the fields related to it (such as ecological and social research contexts).
The survey is designed by the Task Group to capture the experience of data users and providers. We aim to document limitations in existing GBIF services, improve the utility of GBIF-mediated data, and suggest improvements in the functionality of GBIF for specific needs.
To take the survey, please follow this link, or copy the URL into your browser:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SD7TFBF
We know your time is extremely valuable. This survey should take about 20 minutes. Please submit your responses at your earliest convenience, but not later than on 31 August 2016. If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Dmitry Schigel, dschigel@gbif.org.
Thanks in advance for your help,
[Your name] and the GBIF Task Group on data fitness for use in research on alien and invasive species
Next Skype call
Will take place on 11 August. It will be for 1.5-2 hours, starting at:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2016&month=8&day=11&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=101&p2=152&p3=48&p4=22&p5=166&p6=56&p7=250Note, it’s Toronto for Gregory and Helsinki for me this time.
Answers from Tim Robertson
DS: IAS fitness for use group would like to know some data publishing and data access stats from GBIF.org, is it possible to have such things for given list of species vs. all vs. same number of randomly picked species? The lists of IAS are 100, 5,000 and 20,000 species strong. All the comparisons would be over time (since 2008) for target IAS / all / random species. They are interested in things like:
· Rate of publishing
· Data access
· Lag btw collecting date and date when available at GBIF.org
Tim says it will take time. Access stats – no, we can’t do meaningful stats on that really. Please send use your list of species, and we return a simple CSV of the records over time that match that, including the snapshot dates (the 28 views of GBIF over time). Tim says that the developers team is overloaded with new GBIF.org launch, so you would need to do further analysis of that within your own networks. GBIF S could provide something along the lines of:
id, kingdom, family, species, lat, lng, dataset, snapshotDates[]
Snapshot dates would list the indexes (e.g. June 2010, December 2010) that it was seen in. This could then be analysed in R, Python etc.
DS: I know that custom downloads do not get a DOI. How about the data that people access through API?
If they do a download, then yes – it is used very often by the R community.
Links
· Your Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzrSPi8wkHZ8YTN1UUhuMnZlMDg
· Leipzig minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCca5wyJYN1fly3xUeSaAGe2q_H-6lWgiN4AdDrRFEA/edit
I will be on leave on 16-24 July and travelling, but online in and out on 1-14 August.
Text me +45 30 45 02 25 if there some serious problems with survey.
Please do not forget your travel reports and other tasks from the tables below.
Best regards,
Dmitry Schigel
From: DFFU_IAS [mailto:dffu_ias-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of Melodie McGeoch
Sent: 15 July 2016 04:35
To: Task Group on Data Fitness for Use in Research on Invasive Alien Species
Subject: [DFFU_IAS] Leipzig follow up
Dear Quentin, Varos, Shyama, Greg, John and Dmitry
I hope your travel home was smooth. Thank you very much once again to all of you for the valuable and very enjoyable discussion in Leipzig.
Dmitry will be following up on some of the matters arising, but a few items from me:
1. I have drafted an Interim Report. Please could you have a look, add/edit by the 30th June. It is placed in the folder called 'Reports':
2. Some photos from the meeting have been uploaded onto the drive - you are welcome to add any that you have.
3. I have created a file called Tasks from Leipzig in the main folder as a quick reference for convenience - this will also appear in the minutes of the Leipzig meeting.
4. The file 'Report Topics' remains under development as we all worked on it from Leipzig, including the lists of recommendations. Please use this document to continue to add content as your tasks/projects develop. Alternatively, if you prefer to create your own doc and to work offline, just add a note to the Report Topics doc in the relevant spot so that we all know which sections you are working on.
The structure of the Google Drive should be self explanatory now with folders for the Survey, Reports, Meetings, Photos, Other Resources, Publications and an "Archives' for any older versions of documents.
Many thanks
All the best
Melodie
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Melodie A. McGeoch
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus (Bld 18, Innovation Walk, Rm 121), Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. Tel: +61 3 99020464, Mobile: +61 (0) 499 954180, E-mail: melodie.mcgeoch@monash.edu, ISI Researcher ID F-8353-2011, Research Group website: http://melodiemcgeoch.com/
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