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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 23 Nov '23

23 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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Review the GRSciColl data schema and first community call
by Marie Grosjean 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Hello GRSciColl friends, I am writing to let you know that we need some input on the GRSciColl data schema. As you might already know, one of the items on the GRSciColl 2023/2024 Road map is to review and simplify the GRSciColl schema as well as map it with Latimer Core. To facilitate this review process and collect input, we set up the following: * A news item<https://www.gbif.org/news/6QmgDWnOORMkZIG9xvZAD/community-review-of-data-sc…> to forward to anyone you think might be interested. It contains all the links to the other items in this list. * Some google forms to collect input: * Collections<https://forms.gle/F4Skj3F3jJqoUqmM9> * Institutions<https://forms.gle/phBMM285zuvJ5ehP7> * Contact and identifiers<https://forms.gle/SGjqHynoHcxZEm9n6> * A Google set of sheets<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DrBD8lCPhJQwXJs7R73sq9wvr6_2v2ee641…> with an overview of all the GRSciColl fields and vocabularies as well as helpful information. * A forum thread<https://discourse.gbif.org/t/review-the-grscicoll-data-schema-and-first-com…> where people can make their questions public. In addition to that, we have now a date for our first community call: 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 review. You are very welcome to review as much of the schema as you like. You don’t have to give input on all the fields and vocabularies. 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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The new GRSciColl website is public and other news
by Marie Grosjean 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Hello GRSciColl friends, I am writing to let you know that the Global Registry of Scientific Collections has a new website: https://scientific-collections.gbif.org Based on the GBIF Hosted portals<https://www.gbif.org/composition/3kQFinjwHbCGZeLb5OhwN2/gbif-hosted-portals>, this new web interface allows accessing the GRSciColl content as well linked GBIF occurrences. It includes some new filters (which were previously only available via the API) as well as new dashboards. The website can be multilingual, we are working with some of you (thank you!) on a Spanish version. Let me know if you are interested in helping or if you would like to see GRSciColl available in more languages. In other news, I presented some of our our 2023-2024 Roadmap during the TDWG 2023 conference (https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110932). A link to our 2023-2024 roadmap is available here<https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/about/#what-is-next>. My colleague, Lily Shrestha, presented the work the GBIF Regional contractors have been doing to improve access to collection information in Asia and Africa through GRSciColl (https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111167). Thank you all for helping us improve GRSciColl. I hope that you will enjoy browsing data on https://scientific-collections.gbif.org. You are very welcome to report issues and send 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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GRSciColl - We changed the way we link occurrences to GRSciColl
by Scientific Collections 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Hello GRSciColl friends, Thank you for subscribing to our mailing list. I wanted to let you know that we have changed the way we link occurrences published on GBIF to GRSciColl entries. If you are unfamiliar with the idea, GBIF links occurrences published on GBIF with GRSciColl whenever possible. You can read more about it here<https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/grscicoll-flags/>. We used to attempt linking any occurrence on GBIF where a collection or institution code or identifier was provided. The rationale was that an institution should also be able to showcase their observation records. We also wouldn’t link occurrences to GRSciColl if the institution code provided didn’t match the owner code provided. This generated a lot of confusion and mismatches (many observations had codes that happen to match to GRSciColl entries even though they were unrelated to those). So, we decided to only match the occurrences that are published with one of the following bases of record: Preserved Specimen, Fossil Specimen, Living Specimen, Material Sample. In addition to that, we now link records to GRSciColl entries even if the owner institution code differs from the institution code. This allows many records published by Tropicos<https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e053ff53-c156-4e2e-b9b5-4462e9625424> to be linked to GRSciColl entries. The behavior for the matching algorithm is documented here<https://github.com/gbif/registry/blob/dev/registry-service/README.md>. Don’t hesitate to send any feedback or 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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