Darwin Core Hour (iDigBio)

If you want to learn more about Darwin Core - why not go to the source!

Darwin Core was largely developed by a series of US biodiversity research projects including iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) as one of the most recent. The Darwin Core Hour webinar series provide a community for sharing experience on how to use Darwin Core: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars. The recording of each seminar available from iDigBio shortly after each live webinar: https://vimeo.com/album/4407185.

Connect live at: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room

11: Darwin Core Hour Brainstorming – Inviting the Community to Plan for Next Year (Monday 4th December 2017, 17:00 CET, Oslo)

Our last Darwin Core Hour of the year is coming! We would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to an open conversation. During this webinar we will briefly go through the experience of putting together a Darwin Core Hour, i.e., how it works: from the inside. We will assess the topics covered and the ones yet to come, and we will put together a plan for next year. We would love to have you participate, bring your input and ideas for making this initiative grow and address the interests and concerns of the community.

Date and Time: Monday 4 December 2017 at 17:00 CET (Oslo), 11AM EST, 4PM GMT (UTC), 1PM ART, 2PM PST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Questions: https://bit.ly/dwchour-input
Presenters: Paula Zermoglio and the Darwin Core Hour Team

10: Audubon Core and 3D data

• Data standards to support 3D data and images are evolving
• Date: Tuesday 21 November 2017 (21:00 Oslo)
• Presenters: Gary Motz (Indiana Geological and Water Survey), Doug Boyer (Duke University)

9: Kurator for cleaner biodiversity data

• Kurator Web: for Cleaner Biodiversity Data
• http://wiki.datakurator.org/wiki
• Date: Tuesday 24th October 2017, 17:00 CEST (Oslo)
• Presenters: John Wieczorek (VertNet)

TDWG Webinar: Extensions in short

• Description: doi:10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20280
• Date: Thursday 5th October 2017
• Presenter: Paula Zermoglio
• Moderators: Holly Little, Dag Endresen, David Bloom

8: Data quality - TDWG-GBIF DQIG

• TDWG/GBIF Biodiversity Data Quality Interest Group
• Date: Wednesday 6th September 2017
• Presenters: Arthur D. Chapman, Lee Belbin (TDWG BDQ)

7.2: Aggregators - more than Vert(Net)

• Slides
• Date: 29th August 2017
• Presenter: John Wieczorek (VertNet)

7.1: Aggregators - GBIF & iDigBio

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording at Vimeo, slides
• Date: 15th August 2017
• Presenters: Andrea Hahn, Kyle Braak (GBIF); Joanna McCaffrey, Deborah Paul (iDigBio)

6: Where am I, exactly? Darwin Core georeferencing

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording at Vimeo, slides, Q&A Georeferencing
• Date: 11th July 2017
• Presenters: David Bloom, John Wieczorek

5: Darwin Core in Practice: Introduction to the GBIF IPT

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording at Vimeo (Demo), slides
• Date: 13th June 2017
• Presenters: Kyle Braak, Laura Russell, Carole Sinou

4: Evolution of Darwin Core terms and extensions

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording at Vimeo, slides: part 1, part 2
• Date: 2nd May 2017
• Presenters: Andrew Bentley, Quentin Groom

3: Thousands of shades for "controlled" vocabularies

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording Vimeo, slides, Q&A Controlled values
• Date: 4th April 2017
• Presenter: Paula Zermoglio

2: Even simple is hard (simple Darwin Core)

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording at Vimeo, slides, Q&A
• Date: 7th March 2017
• Presenter: John Wieczorek

1: Introduction to Darwin Core

• Webinar at Adobe Connect, recording at Vimeo, slides
• Date: 7th February 2017
• Presenter: John Wieczorek
• Introduction to the webinar series (slides)

Darwin Core documentation:

• Darwin Core home page: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/
• Darwin Core terms definitions: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
• TDWG Terms Wiki: http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/Darwin_Core
• Darwin Core Questions & Answers: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa
• Darwin Core extensions: http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-validator/extensions.do

What is Darwin Core, and why does it matter?

• https://demo.gbif.org/publishing/darwin-core

Darwin Core spreadsheet templates:

• Taxon checklists: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/checklistData
• Species occurrences: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/occurrenceData
• Sampling events: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/samplingEventData

Create and publish Darwin Core using the IPT (GBIF Integrated data Publishing Toolkit):

• IPT home page: http://www.gbif.org/ipt
• User manual: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes.wiki

GBIF IPT data models:

• http://rs.gbif.org/
• http://rs.gbif.org/core/
• http://rs.gbif.org/extension/
• http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/

Data quality guidelines:

• https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/dataQualityChecklist
• http://www.gbif.org/publishing-data/quality
• Principles of Data Quality (2005), http://www.gbif.org/resource/80509
• Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning (2005), http://www.gbif.org/resource/80528
• Uses of primary species occurrence data (2005), http://www.gbif.org/resource/80545

Darwin Core software tools:

• Kurator, http://wiki.datakurator.org/wiki
• GBIF Tools, http://tools.gbif.org/
• Global Names, http://globalnames.org/ (nomenclature)

Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum (see also):

• http://biodiversity-informatics-training.org/