[1]UPDATE! List of ALL Darwin Core Hour Webinars (to date) can be found here: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars [2]

 

First 2017 DMIG webinar

When: Tuesday Feb 7 @ 1 PM EST, 6 PM UTC

Darwin Core Hour: Introduction

Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt [3]

 

Darwin Core Hour Input Form:

Please contribute topics of interest for future series and your questions [1]. Help us organize the community Darwin Core conversation. Please share this link widely! https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz [1]

 

RECORDING and Your Feedback.

 

WOW - we exceeded our Adobe Connect Capacity (100) people!  If you couldn't get in, please do listen to the recording via

a. Adobe Connect http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p200obyl8yp/ [4]

or

b. in the Darwin Core Hour Vimeo Album: https://vimeo.com/album/4407185 [5]

and please give us your feedback and ideas:

1. Post Webinar Survey: https://tinyurl.com/jq8qzsq [6]

2. Your Darwin Core questions and ideas to the Darwin Core Input Form: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz [1]

 

Be on the lookout for the next Darwin Core Hour - in March!

• We will change to a different meeting space to accomodate demand. :-)

Talks from today's webinar:  See https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars [2]

• Introduction to Darwin Core Hour [7]
• Introduction to Darwin Core [8]

Webinar 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 [9] such as Audubon Core, Resource Relationship, and Measurement Or Fact. 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 questions and to have open discussions in each webinar.

 

Chapter Abstract

In this first webinar in the Darwin Core Hour series, the basics of how Darwin Core functions in the biodiversity community as a dynamic standard will be covered. Topics will include what the standard consists of, how to use it, how it can be changed, sources of information, and where to go for help.

Presenter: John Wieczorek

Moderators: Deborah Paul and Shelley James

 

Links to relevant pre-reading materials for best experience

• http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/ [10]

• http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ [11]

• What is Darwin Core, and why does it matter? https://demo.gbif.org/publishing/darwin-core [12] (new work-in-progress site, graphics-in-development)

• Data quality checklist: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/dataQualityChecklist [13]

• Data quality guidelines/requirements: http://www.gbif.org/publishing-data/quality [14]

• DwC-A templates for checklists (https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/checklistData [15]), occurrences (https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/occurrenceData [16]) and sampling events (https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/samplingEventData [17])—each of which has a growing FAQ connected to it 

• Create a GBIF Darwin Core Archive using the IPT (http://www.gbif.org/ipt [18])

• iDigBio Data Ingestion Guidance documented here:
  https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Ingestion_Guidance [19]​

• GBIF Resources http://rs.gbif.org/ [20]

• oldie but goodie on IPT extensions: http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-validator/extensions.do [9]

Link to how to get the most out of Adobe Connect

https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing [21]

Please use headsets for best experience.

 

Webinar series brought to you by the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI). We welcome input for this series from all working groups inside and outside of iDigBio and the entire community. We plan to make this happen 1x month.

 

Image from: http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-and-use-darwin-core/ [22]