November 2017 - BID-Community

Darwin Core Hour: Audubon Core and 3D Biodiversity Data - Tuesday 21 November 2017 3 PM EST
by Deborah Paul 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

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. -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison and Member-At-Large, SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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Introduction - The Mauritius Herbarium
by Mauritius Herbarium 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Hello everyone, I am Claudia Baider, Brazilian-born working in Mauritius for over 15 years. I am currently in charge of The Mauritius Herbarium. My main research interest is in the conservation of biodiversity in tropical terrestrial systems focusing on the Amazon, the Atlantic forests and, more recently, the Mascarenes (located within the Madagascar and SW Indian Ocean Biodiversity hotspot) where I investigate the impact of invasive alien species on its biodiversity. I am also interested in restoration ecology and taxonomy of Mascarene flowering plants. Over the last decade, The Mauritius Herbarium has databased and barcoded most of its collections. Our aim now is to apply international standards for making data available on our website, and in a regional and global portals. We are also working with a local NGO that is is spearheading a project on organic farming that wishes to make the results of this project available local and internationally. We received a BID-AFRICA 2017 grant (BID-AF2017-0316-SMA) for the project 'Getting the plants to all: dissemination of information from the collection of The Mauritius Herbarium" ( https://www.gbif.org/project/aRCxBBF1BYU2C0us62ea4/getting-the-plants-to-al…). With my best wishes, Claudia -------------------------------------------- Dr Claudia Baider, The Mauritius Herbarium, RE Vaughan Building (MSIRI compound), Agricultural Services, Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security. Reduit, Postal code 80835, Mauritius. Phone +(230) 4541061. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dpFq8_8AAAAJ&hl=en

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15 PhD student positions open for Marie Curie Plant ID
by Mergen Patricia 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Dear all There are 15 phD positions open in the Marie Curie ITN Plant ID https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/257786 Number 12 is with Botanic Garden Meise Genomicbarcoding to trace and identify illegally logged African trees - Botanic Garden Meise, Degree Awarding KU Leuven These positions are open to applicants world-wide. More info here on how to apply to the position in Meise. The procedure is similar for the 14 other positions in this program. http://www.plantentuinmeise.be/PUBLIC/GENERAL/ABOUTUS/vacancies.php With my best wishes Patricia ________________________________________ From: Bid-community [bid-community-bounces(a)lists.gbif.org] on behalf of Deborah Paul [dpaul(a)fsu.edu] Sent: 05 October 2017 10:01 To: bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org Subject: [Bid-community] You're Invited! Darwin Core (Quarter) Hour - Extensions in Short - at TDWG 2017 Hi Everyone, Please join us tomorrow for Darwin Core (Quarter) Hour - Extensions in Short! Time Date: 9 AM EDT, 2 PM London, 4 PM Kenya ON Thursday 5 October WHERE: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/tdwg2017 Abstract. In this special Darwin Core Hour webinar we will tackle a topic that annoys some, excites others, and (at times) puzzles the rest of us: Darwin Core Extensions. As existing extensions are being used increasingly by the biodiversity informatics community and as the number of new extensions that are being proposed grows rapidly, it is important to understand what they refer to and why they are becoming so popular within the community. By exploring some examples, we will try to answer the following questions: What are extensions? How do they work? And, under which circumstances would I ever use them? Presenter: Paula Zermoglio Moderators: Holly Little, Dag Endresen, David Bloom DETAILS. At TDWG 2017 Conference on Thursday, the Darwin Core Hour team is presenting a talk "Standards in Action: The Darwin Core Hour" and we hope that you will join us to hear this special edition of Darwin Core Hour and participate in our mini-DwC (Quarter) Hour Extensions in Short. Proceedings of TDWG https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20280 See you in 24 hours! Deb Paul, et al from TDWG 2017 and the Darwin Core Hour Team -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison and Member-At-Large, SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366 _______________________________________________ Bid-community mailing list Bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/bid-community

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New GBIF data validator
by Kyle Copas 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

All, ICYMI, just a quick note to BID community to alert you to the release of GBIF’s new data validator: https://www.gbif.org/tools/data-validator This news item provides some background that may highlight its potential relevance for you: https://www.gbif.org/news/1typAByt7mWSuoAY6sM442 All best, Kyle ===== Kyle Copas +45 35 32 14 75 | mobile +45 28 75 14 75 | Skype kylecopas GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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