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Tutorial on uploading collection descriptors and other news
by Marie Grosjean 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hello GRSciColl Friends, Thank you to all of you who have joined our community call in August and/or the GRSciColl session at the SPNHC/TDWG conference last month. It was great to see you all! We now have a tutorial on the GBIF Data Blog explaining how to upload collection descriptors in GRSciColl. If you are interested, you can read it here: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/grscicoll-collection-descriptors/. In other news: * If you missed it, the recording of the August community call is available here: https://vimeo.com/1001951935 * The synchronization of GRSciColl with Index Herbariorum now works with the suggestion system. This means that editors will now get notified and asked to review new entries coming from Index Herbariorum. * We are working on making GRSciColl country mediators (editors) visible and recognized for their work (like the GBIF open data ambassadors<https://www.gbif.org/article/1ye7qAa9Z2HVSn85bfSmLP/who-are-the-gbif-biodiv…>). I will reach out to country mediators when the time comes to ask them to make/update public profiles on our system. As always, thank you for helping us improve GRSciColl. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Watch our GRSciColl community call recording
by Marie Grosjean 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Hello GRSciColl Friends, This is a quick email to let you know that if you have missed last week GRSciColl community call, you can watch the recording here: https://vimeo.com/1001951935. We discussed some of the more recent updates like the ability to upload and search collections based on some descriptors (see an example of search for fern collections in American institutions<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/search?country=US&taxonK…>). I will follow up on some of the topics discussed in the call in the coming weeks. You are also very welcome to join the GRSciColl session<https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/sessions/#sym16> at the TDWG/SPNHC conference next week. Thank you for your help improving GRSciColl! All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Structured collection descriptors and other news
by Marie Grosjean 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hello GRSciColl Friends, Good news! GRSciColl can now support the upload of structured collection descriptors. The idea behind collection descriptors is described in our road map here<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/road-map#2-support-structured-colle…>. This is a very exciting development, and we will be working on refining this new feature. I will present the implementation of collection descriptors on our next community call on Thursday (22nd of August) as well as discuss ideas to integrate the output of institutional surveys in GRSciColl. You can join us by registering here: https://www.gbif.org/event/1FoDQu5gWlZzTVrqCsN7D1/global-registry-of-scient… Also, if you are attending the TDWG-SPNHC 2024 conference<https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/>, consider joining our GRSciColl session<https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/sessions/#sym16>. I will be on site and happy to help editing and discuss more of the GRSciColl developments. I am looking forward to meeting you! Thank you for helping us improve GRSciColl. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Join our next community call in August and other news
by Marie Grosjean 10 Jul '24

10 Jul '24

Hello GRSciColl Friends, I hope to see you in our next GRSciColl community call on the 22nd of August 2024 at 15:00 CEST. This call will be an opportunity to discuss ideas on how to integrate the output of institutional surveys in GRSciColl<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/road-map#3-institutional-surveys>. I would really appreciate your input on the topic. Please find the agenda and registration link here<https://www.gbif.org/event/1FoDQu5gWlZzTVrqCsN7D1/global-registry-of-scient…>. Let me know if you are unable to attend the call and would like to share your input. Thank you! In other news, the Paleo Data Working group is organizing a hands-on GRSciColl editing session for paleontology collections tomorrow (11th of July) at 14:00 Eastern. You can find more information and a registration link here<https://paleo-data.github.io/grscicoll>. And finally, if you haven’t already, please check our custom dashboard function! You can now make and share custom dashboard for selection of occurrences. See this example of dashboard for fossil records<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/specimen/search?basisOfRecord=FOSSI…>. If you would like to share your feedback on this feature, please do so here<https://github.com/gbif/hp-grscicoll/issues/163>. Thank you! As always, thank you for helping improve GRSciColl! Let me know if you have any question. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Re: [Global Registry of Scientific Collections] Adding images to GRSciColl pages, access Latimer Core formatted data and ongoing discussions
by Marie Grosjean 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Hello GRSciColl friends, Our developers have implemented some changes in GRSciColl. The details were listed in my previous email and accessible on this forum post<https://discourse.gbif.org/t/watch-our-grscicoll-community-call-recording-g…>. Notable changes are that: * You can now access GRSciColl data as JSON following the Latimer Core standard. You can do so for any entry, from the editing interface (click on the “More” button in the upper right corner and “Download as Latimer Core). Here is an example: https://api.gbif.org/v1/grscicoll/collection/latimerCore/2935ebce-1f44-4360… * You can now add featured images to your GRSciColl pages. The idea is to make those pages more visual and customizable. For example, you could have a picture of your institution, or of a drawer, or of a specimen or a staff group photo, etc. See these two examples: * https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/institution/40452d31-2f91-460a-a624… * https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/948e3641-75ca-4550-91a1-… Note that most entries won’t have any image. What do you think the idea of pulling images from homepage when available? Here<https://gbif.box.com/s/jyoaw931ihceg9fpoaosappoybgx3x0q> are three examples where we tried using the homepage opengraph:image metatag. The images aren’t always relevant but make the GRSciColl pages more visual. What do you think? Let me know. Thanks! You are welcome to participate in our ongoing discussion on whether GRSciColl should mint DOIs for collections. You will find the thread here<https://discourse.gbif.org/t/preferred-identifiers-for-grscicoll-entries-sh…>. As always, thank you for helping improve GRSciColl! Let us know if you have any question. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Watch our community call recording, API changes and other news
by Marie Grosjean 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Hello GRSciColl friends, Many of you attended our GRSciColl community call two weeks ago, thank you very much! If you missed it, you can watch the recording here<https://vimeo.com/936568304> and follow up on our on-going DOI and identifier-related discussion here<https://discourse.gbif.org/t/preferred-identifiers-for-grscicoll-entries-sh…>. I also want to announce some changes to the GRSciColl API (see the current documentation here<https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/v1/registry#/Collections>). These changes will affect scripts and website that use the GRSciColl part of the API, you will need to adapt them. Here are the changes: * The following fields will be discarded: indexHerbariorum, institution geographicDescription, institution taxonomicDescription, citesPermitNumber (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/545) * The following fields are lists: types, institutionalGovernances, catalogueUrls, apiUrls (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/550) * The following fields will be using vocabularies<https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/v1/vocabulary> instead of enumerations<https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/#enumerations>: types, institutionalGovernances, discipline, contentType, preservationType, accessionStatus (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/549) * The collection “geography” field is renamed “geographicCoverage” (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/551) * New fields are added: collection temporalCovergage, featuredImageUrl, featuredImageLicense (https://github.com/gbif/registry/issues/552) These changes are part of the implementation of the GRSciColl road map 2023/2024<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/road-map>. We will deploy them on the 20th of May 2024. In addition to that, we are considering adding a section for resources from/for the community on the GRSciColl website. If you have made videos or documents for your communities (especially in other languages than english) and you are interested in sharing them on the website, please let me know! Let me know if you have any question. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Join our next GRSciColl community call - April 2024
by Marie Grosjean 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Hello GRSciColl friends, Our next GRSciColl community call will take place on the 17th of April at 15 CEST. We will discuss the progress of the GRSciColl roadmap implementation<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/road-map>: 1. Review of the data schema: output of the survey, changes being implemented and mapping to Latimer Core 2. Support structured collection descriptors: proposed implementation and examples You can register here<https://www.gbif.org/event/1zGtffxiZ5bqXB0i0cIfS2/global-registry-of-scient…>, everyone is welcome! Don’t hesitate to forward the invitation. As a side note, I would like to hear what you think of MIDS (Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen) levels and whether it would be helpful to have them in GRSciColl. I have opened this discussion<https://github.com/tdwg/ltc/discussions/80> on the Latimer Core repository, any input would be appreciated, thanks! I am looking forward to seeing you in April! Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Latimer Core public review: Open forum sessions
by Jutta Buschbom 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear All, Happy New Year! TDWG's upcoming Latimer Core standard is currently under public review. We are inviting everybody to join the accompanying open forum sessions to get to know more about LtC, ask questions and to discuss the standard with us. Please see the invitation below by Ben Norton, LtC's review manager. We are looking forward to seeing you at one of the sessions and our exchanges. Best wishes, Jutta for the LtC Task Group ========= **Open Forum for the Latimer Core Public Review** To facilitate the public review of the Latimer Core, the review manager, Ben Norton, and some of the core members of the task group, are holding an open forum on Zoom to discuss Latimer Core and answer questions. The open forum sessions are scheduled for the three Thursdays in January (January 4, 11, 18) at 15:00-16:00 UTC. Display various timezones: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240104T150000&p… For additional information, please see the Latimer Core GitHub Repository and Documentation Pages (linked below), or see the original announcement about Latimer Core and its public review (https://www.tdwg.org/news/2023/latimer-core-public-review/). You can also email Ben Norton at michaelnorton.ben(a)gmail.com. LtC Repository: https://github.com/tdwg/ltc Public Review Discussions: https://github.com/tdwg/ltc/discussions LtC Documentation: https://tdwg.github.io/ltc/ Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81814652210?pwd=SExxNzNiV2NWc1E3SzFnMXNmZzg5dz09 Meeting ID: 818 1465 2210 Passcode: 665891 -- Dr. Jutta Buschbom Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse 35 22926 Ahrensburg Germany +49 (0)4102 459264 jutta.buschbom(a)statistical-genetics.de https://statistical-genetics.com and Data Architect, RECODE-Project The Natural History Museum, London, UK jutta.buschbom(a)nhm.ac.uk [first name][last name] she|her

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Review of the Latimer Core (LtC) collection descriptions data standard
by Marie Grosjean 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

Hello GRSciColl Friends, For those who aren't already aware, the public review phase of the Latimer Core (LtC) collection descriptions data standard has now opened! LtC is a new TDWG<https://www.tdwg.org/> data standard that's intended to be complimentary to specimen-level standards like Darwin Core, providing a common way to structure and share higher-level information about groups of collection objects, from whole-institution collections through thematic and historic collections and even down to the contents of single drawer. There's considerable overlap with the concepts and data in the GRSciColl schema and plans, and so GRSciColl is exploring the use of LtC as part of the roadmap<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/road-map>. The TDWG LtC group is very keen to get input from the GRSciColl community, and encourage anyone who is interested to learn more about the new standard, join the discussions and provide feedback! For more information on how to get involved, please check out the review announcement on the TDWG website<https://www.tdwg.org/news/2023/latimer-core-public-review/>, or go directly to the Latimer Core documentation<https://tdwg.github.io/ltc/index.html> online. As a reminder, the GRSciColl data Schema review is open until the 22nd of December 2023. See this new item<https://www.gbif.org/news/6QmgDWnOORMkZIG9xvZAD/community-review-of-data-sc…>. Reviewers are welcome to convey that they would like the terms and definitions to align with Latimer Core. And let me know if a deadline extension is needed. Thank you! Please send questions or feedback to scientific-collections(a)gbif.org<mailto:scientific-collections@gbif.org>. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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New view of the data: related records
by Marie Grosjean 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Hello GRSciColl friends, We have enabled the “related” specimen view on the GRSciColl portal. This view can be accessed from collections and institution pages like here<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/8c49fd2c-4da9-4779-96bc-…> or from the specimen search like here<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/specimen/search?view=CLUSTERS>. If you are interested in knowing more about this feature, I suggest checking this video<https://vimeo.com/881596676> and blogpost<https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/clustering-occurrences/>. A reminder that we have our first community call next week: the 29th of November 15:00 CET. You can register for the event here<https://www.gbif.org/event/686uY1fQAo8N8mb98Q2GEa/global-registry-of-scient…>. This event will be an opportunity to discuss and work on the data schema review, see this news item<https://www.gbif.org/news/6QmgDWnOORMkZIG9xvZAD/community-review-of-data-sc…>. Any help is appreciated! Please send questions or feedback to scientific-collections(a)gbif.org<mailto:scientific-collections@gbif.org>. All the best, Marie -- Marie Grosjean (mgrosjean(a)gbif.org<mailto:mgrosjean@gbif.org>) Data Administrator GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen, DENMARK URL: http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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