contributors: Deborah Paul, Vince Smith, Laurence Livermore
From iDigBio, I’ve had the pleasure of being a member of the Synthesis of Sytematic Resources (SYNTHESYS) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to act as an external advisor on shared digital challenges between SYNTHESYS3 and iDigBio, to and to cross-promote activities between the two projects with other groups such as SPNHC. You might ask, what exactly is SYNTHESYS?
Manta Rays
From the Darwin Core Hour Team.
Hole-y Plant Databases! Understanding and Preventing Biases in Botanical Big Data
American Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus)
Photo courtesy of: Florida Fish and Wildlife, Photo by: Karen Parker
iDigBio and the University of Michigan’s Herbarium (MICH), Museum of Paleontology, and Museum of Zoology were pleased to co-host the Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, 5-6 June
Data Curation Profiles—An Information Science framework for data managers
-- Contributed by Wade Bishop and Kelly White, The University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences
Data curation profiles (DCPs). DCPs give scientists, researchers, and data managers an enhanced and detailed understanding of the “data story” from the perspective of the data. A DCP “captures requirements for specific data generated by researchers articulated by the researchers themselves” (http://datacurationprofiles.org/purpose) and provides data managers a framework to acquire an in-depth understanding of the particular data curation needs of producers and their intended users. Read more about Wade & Kelly's work with the iDigBio community here.
