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=== Imagining a Locality Service === | === Imagining a Locality Service === | ||
[https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/working-groups/gwg/DraftOfiDigBioLocalityService.docx Imagining a Locality Service]. ([https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/working-groups/gwg/DraftOfiDigBioLocalityService.docx A DRAFT COPY ONLY] from the iDigBio GWG). This copy is dated 9 Feb 2015. This is a working copy and in no way represents a final version. It’s a compilation of possibilities. It represents the GWG envisioning the possibilities for locality services and how they might be implemented. | |||
The purpose of this document is to describe the functional requirements of a locality service that provides a mechanism whereby data associated with previously georeferenced locality descriptions may be leveraged in the process of georeferencing. | |||
Rationale: | |||
Current georeferencing workflows available in the natural history collections community today often result in projects georeferencing the same localities over and over again. Development and deployment of a locality service as outlined in this document addresses this time-consuming and expensive issue. Future workflows taking advantage of this service would see several benefits: faster georeferencing as well as improved efficiency and accuracy. In addition, a service of this type facilitates community input (annotation) for georeferences. | |||
=== [[GWG Meeting Notes]] === | === [[GWG Meeting Notes]] === | ||