[Bid-community] Darwin Core Hour: Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity Data - Tuesday 21 November 2017 3 PM EST

Deborah Paul dpaul at fsu.edu
Tue Nov 21 00:22:37 CET 2017


Hello BID,

Hoping to see you tomorrow (that's Tuesday 21 November) for Darwin Core 
Hour: Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity Data.

Date:  Tuesday 21 November 2017
Time:  3pm EST, 12pm PST, 5pm ART, 9pm CET, 20:00 UTC
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Questions: https://bit.ly/dwchour-input

Presenters
Gary Motz - Chief Information Officer and Assistant Director for 
Information Services, Indiana Geological and Water Survey
Doug Boyer - Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary 
Anthropology, Duke University; MorphoSource

Moderator - Holly Little, Informatics Manager, Paleobiology Collections, 
Smithsonian

Details: 
https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-audubon-core-and-3d-biodiversity-data

See you soon!
Deb, et al on the Darwin Core Hour Team

    Link to how to get the most out of Adobe Connect
    https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing
    Please use headsets for best experience.


On 2017-11-15 12:59 PM, Deborah Paul wrote:
>
> Hello to all BID folks!
>
> Got 3D data and image files? Or maybe you will in the future. How are 
> you sharing, storing, and managing this information? Wondering what 
> others are doing to make media, and 3D in particular, more accessible? 
> From the scientific collections perspective, please join us for our 
> upcoming Darwin Core Hour Webinar:  Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity 
> Data:  Metadata, Practice, and Unification of Efforts
>
> We encourage people to bring or submit questions for discussion 
> section of webinar. https://bit.ly/dwchour-input
>
> Date:  Tuesday 21 November 2017
> Time:  3pm EST, 12pm PST, 5pm ART, 9pm CET, 20:00 UTC
> Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
>
> Abstract: A growing mode of digitization of natural history collection 
> objects is 3D digitization, which includes three main acquisition 
> techniques:  surface scanning (structured light or laser scanners), 
> volumetric scanning (microCT or MRI), and photogrammetry (structure 
> from motion). There is now burgeoning interest in and tremendous need 
> for describing 3D data files with standard vocabularies in the 
> interest of promoting broad accessibility and long-term digital 
> preservation. Audubon Core is an existing vocabulary and extension to 
> DarwinCore that is used to describe digital media files representing 
> natural history objects. It is not an entirely new vocabulary with 
> many terms borrowed from Dublin Core, Darwin Core and more. It also 
> intended to describe different kinds of digital data representing 
> different creation methods and file formats. We overview several 
> different 3D data collection modalities specifying the details needed 
> for understanding how 3D data was generated and processed. We 
> investigate the utility of Audubon Core for describing these 3D 
> modalities. Questions we ask are which existing terms can be used for 
> describing new 3D modalities, whether new terms are needed, whether 
> certain 3D modalities need specific terms not applicable to other 
> modalities, what 3D data formats should be emphasized for preservation 
> and access, and how to pursue formally acquiring new terms either 
> through creation of new vocabularies or extending existing ones.
>
> Presenters
> Gary Motz - Chief Information Officer and Assistant Director for 
> Information Services, Indiana Geological and Water Survery
> Doug Boyer - Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary 
> Anthropology, Duke University; MorphoSource
>
> Moderator - Holly Little, Informatics Manager, Paleobiology 
> Collections, Smithsonian
> Relevant links
> https://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/Audubon_Core_Term_List
> http://morphosource.org/
>
> Darwin Core Hour Series Abstract:
> Darwin Core has become a broadly-used standard for biodiversity data 
> sharing since its inception as a standard by the organization 
> Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) in 2009. Despite, or because 
> of, its popularity, people trying to use the standard continue to have 
> questions about how to use Darwin Core and associated extensions. This 
> webinar series looks at open questions related to Darwin Core. Though 
> the topic is broad, individual chapters in the series will focus on 
> specific topics to any adequate level of depth. We encourage people to 
> bring or submit questions and to have open discussions in each webinar 
> (https://bit.ly/dwchour-input). See 
> https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars for our webinar resources.
>
> See you soon!
> Deborah Paul from iDigBio, and the DwC Hour Team
>
> Link to how to get the most out of Adobe Connect
> https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing
> Please use headsets for best experience.
>

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-- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist
iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison and Member-At-Large, SYNTHESYS3 Representative
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Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
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