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Revision as of 01:40, 21 May 2012

Overview

iDigBio supports a number of Working Groups. Several working groups are focused on the delivery of short-term objectives, while other standing Working Groups are tasked with ongoing research, development, and improvement activities. This page provides an overview of both current (active) and disbanded (inactive) Working Groups.


The column "Overlap with Other Working Groups" should be used to list subject areas that may duplicate some effort from another Working Group. When Working Group activities stray into these overlapping subject areas then collaboration between Working Groups is warranted for those tasks.


Working Group Overview

Group Name Status Members Mission & Scope Overlap with Other Working Groups Links
Citizen Science Active
  • Austin Mast (Lead)
  • Tom Nash
  • Blanka Shaw
  • Jon Shaw
  • Matt von Konrat
  • Andrew Sallans
  • Michael Denslow
  • Nelson Rios
  • Barbara Thiers
  • Deborah Paul
  • Betty Dunckel
  • Gil Nelson
  • Bruce MacFadden
Identify and improve aspects of biodiversity digitization workflows that can be newly architected or enhanced to take advance of Citizen Science engagement.

Listserv

Working Group Wiki

Citizen Science / Eductation & Outreach Workshop

Citizen Science / Education & Outreach Workshop Target Participants

Authority Files Active
  • Greg Riccardi (Lead)
  • Katja Seltmann
Cyber Infrastructure Active Define, document and test iDigBio service Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and appliances. The first phase will focus on data ingestion APIs and appliances considering TCN use cases. Definition and documentation of potential services and appliances for OCR and georeferencing are left to the respective working groups.

Definition of data structure for ingestion is left to MISC working group.

Minimum Information Standards & Semantics Active
  • Gil Nelson (Lead)
  • Andrea Matsunaga
  • Reed Beaman
  • John Deck
1) Establish the working group and its goals, with the guidance of participants from the MISC

breakout group from iDigBio's It Standards workshop. 2) Document basic assumptions underpinning a minimal information for scientific collections expectation. 3) Develop a document outlining and providing a rationale for required, minimal, desired, and supplementary data elements to be provided by iDigBio contributors. 4) Develop guidelines for data validation, training and assistance to iDigBio contributors for configuring data for ingestion into the iDigBio portal

Potential overlap with authority files.
Geo

referencing Working Group (GWG)

Active Our first goals are to start building a community of expert Georeferencing trainers in a workshop to be held in the fall or winter of 2012 and advance the capabilities of Georeferencing tools. Want to know more? Contact Deborah Paul
Augmenting OCR (aOCR) Active Engage experts in the biodiversity and information technology fields to identify opportunities to broadly implement existing effective OCR tools and enhance

existing Machine and Natural Language Processing technologies to meet the needs of the biodiversity community. Want to know more? Contact Bryan Heidorn or Deborah Paul

Intellectual Property Policy Inactive
  • Gil Nelson (Lead)
  • Deborah Paul
  • David Giblin
  • Katja Schultz
  • Katja Seltmann
  • Chris Dietrich
  • Paul Stern
  • John Fraser
Produce a clear Intellectual Property Policy to establish data ownership rights and data re-use requirements related to content presented via iDigBio by collections and institutions. None identified

Final Published Document

Note: This document is open for community comment