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=== Presentations === | === Presentations === | ||
=== Questions Asked === | |||
In this interactive session, the presenters and audience asked questions. What follows is a compilation of these. | |||
*How many published data in an open fashion? | |||
**Most of the people in the room | |||
*How many felt comfortable with the process? | |||
**Half of the room | |||
*How many have heard of FAIR? | |||
**About ⅓ of the room | |||
What other words do you think of when you hear Findable? | |||
**DOI | |||
**Internet | |||
**Licensing | |||
**Metadata | |||
**Standards | |||
**Public access | |||
**No paywall | |||
**Permanent | |||
*How many people have ORCIDs? | |||
**Most of the room | |||
*How many people have heard of iDigBio? ⅓ of the room | |||
*How many have had to aggregate disparate datasets? ¼ of the room | |||
*How would you do it differently? | |||
**Ask all the contributors to use the same template ahead of time | |||
*How may have heard of DarwinCore, EML? ~10+ people | |||
*How many are actively sharing data? Any comments on that? | |||
**Denver Botanic Gardens have hired a person to do this - helps decrease latency significantly | |||
**Takes a lot of time - georeferencing standardization very challenging | |||
*What do you do before working with synthetic datasets? | |||
**Placeholders in data - NAs vs zeroes | |||
**Geocoordinate QC | |||
**Outlier detection | |||
*How many are familiar with the rank abundance distribution? | |||
**¼ of the room | |||
*Who is familiar with SEINet? | |||
**Only a handful | |||
==== Questions from the audience ==== | |||
*Communicating back to the creators of the datasets - what are concrete ways that this is happening so people can do this, or is it just a goal? | |||
*Failure to understand that taxonomic names need to include the authority (e.g. the taxon concept) - data providers do not do this - what source are each data providers using? | |||
*I use GBIF a lot for my research. Put in request for all the mammals in N. Amer. - too big. Went to R to make it more manageable to pull in records one species at a time, but ended up with so many of DOIs. What is the right doi to use? | |||
*What is the vision for managing errors in GBIF data? And what do you do with DOIs? | |||
*What efforts are being done to fill in the gaps for global biodiversity given that tropical systems are not well known? | |||
*What are your organizations doing to advocate with different journals to use the DOIs (e.g., limitations on number of citations)? | |||
*More of a comment: Statistical issues around rare species - biases the science we can do | |||
=== Resources === | === Resources === | ||