{"id":757,"date":"2013-12-07T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ernstmayrlibrary\/?p=757"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:27:45","slug":"librarian-travels-biodiversity-information-standards-tdwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ernstmayrlibrary\/2013\/12\/07\/librarian-travels-biodiversity-information-standards-tdwg\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarian travels: Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was privileged to attend and present as part of a symposium at the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting October 28-November 1, 2013. The theme for 2013 was \u201cVirtual Communities for Biodiversity Science<\/a>\u201d, an apt theme for the global virtual Biodiversity Heritage Library.\u00a0 The venue was beautiful Florence, Italy and the weather was warm.<\/p>\n

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Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy<\/p><\/div>\n

Six members of the Global BHL community\u00a0participated in the symposium, “Crafting the Future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for Diverse Communities’ Needs<\/a>“. \u00a0My contribution to the symposium was a review of feedback the BHL has received through surveys, interviews and messages, looking for common threads and what has been resolved.The most common thread throughout the years and echoed by the 50 or so audience members is:\u00a0 \u201cScan more!!\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Martin Kalfatovic, Connie Rinaldo, Trish Rose-Sandler,Lucy Waruingi, William Ulate, Jiri Frank<\/p><\/div>\n

TDWG is a long and information-packed meeting that incorporates many topics of interest to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and librarians.\u00a0 Metadata, vocabularies for taxonomy, interoperability and linked open data are common themes at TDWG\u00a0 to which librarians, particularly those engaged in biological information,\u00a0 can relate.\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed the poster sessions.\u00a0 There were 31 posters<\/a> and I will highlight a few in this post.<\/p>\n

BHL partners such as ViBRANT (http:\/\/vbrant.eu\/), OpenUp (http:\/\/open-up.eu\/), BioStor (http:\/\/biostor.org\/), and Zookeys (http:\/\/www.pensoft.net\/journals\/zookeys\/) and others were represented at TDWG ensuring lively discussions.\u00a0 The poster \u201cBibliography of Life: Comprehensive services for biodiversity bibliographic references\u201d (https:\/\/mbgserv18.mobot.org\/ocs\/index.php\/tdwg\/2013\/paper\/view\/339<\/a>) addressed de-duplicating and parsing the components of references from a variety of sources to improve and expand literature searching.\u00a0 Other posters highlighted object digitization and the TDWG Audubon Core (http:\/\/www.tdwg.org\/standards\/638\/<\/a>)metadata standard.\u00a0 The Naturalis Biodiversity Center reviewed their work digitizing collection objects, including videos, (https:\/\/mbgserv18.mobot.org\/ocs\/index.php\/tdwg\/2013\/paper\/view\/395<\/a>) using the Audubon Core standard for metadata.\u00a0 Another poster from Belgian institutions, Agora 3D Evaluating the Digitisation of Scientific Collections, reviewed scanning technology and techniques for biological specimens to develop a set of standards and protocols for museums (https:\/\/mbgserv18.mobot.org\/ocs\/index.php\/tdwg\/2013\/paper\/view\/398<\/a>).\u00a0 Other posters highlighted taxonomic information such as \u201cFrom Dendroeca blackburniae to Dendrceca blackburniae:\u00a0 what\u2019s in a name\u201d https:\/\/mbgserv18.mobot.org\/ocs\/index.php\/tdwg\/2013\/paper\/view\/344<\/a> citing the need for clean, correct scientific names to support names-based architecture and \u201d ComTax: Community-driven Curation for Taxonomic Databases\u201d, a project designed to support manual correction and verification of name data (http:\/\/taxoncuration.myspecies.info\/<\/a>). The TDWG meeting has much to offer archivists and librarians looking for the biological perspective on metadata and curation.\u00a0 For the curious, you can find the uploaded presentations at the TDWG site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~Connie Rinaldo<\/em><\/p>\n

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