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Revision as of 09:26, 9 August 2012
Overview
iDigBio supports a number of Working Groups. Several working groups are focused on the delivery of short-term objectives, while other standing Working Groups are tasked with ongoing research, development, and improvement activities. This page provides an overview of both current (active) and disbanded (inactive) Working Groups.
The section "Overlap with Other Working Groups" should be used to list subject areas that may duplicate some effort from another Working Group. When Working Group activities stray into these overlapping subject areas then collaboration between working groups is warranted for those tasks.
Active Working Groups
Public Participation in Digitization
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
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Mission & Scope | Identify and improve aspects of biodiversity digitization workflows that can be newly architected or enhanced to take advantage of public participation. |
Overlap with Other Working Groups | |
Links |
Listserv , Working Group Wiki , Joint Public Participation in Digitization/Eductation & Outreach Workshop |
Authority Files
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
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Mission & Scope | |
Overlap with other Working Groups | |
Links | Listserv , Working Group Wiki |
Paleontology
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
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Mission & Scope | This group is currently being formed. One of the group's first tasks will be to define a Mission and Scope. Broadly, the group will maintain awareness of digitization activities and needs within the Paleontology community, and promote communication between Neontology/Paleontology/Information Technology partners. |
Overlap with Other Working Groups | |
Links | Listserv , Discussion Forum , Working Group Wiki |
Cyberinfrastructure
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
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Mission & Scope | Define, document and test iDigBio service Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and appliances. The first phase will focus on data ingestion APIs and appliances considering TCN use cases.
Definition and documentation of potential services and appliances for OCR and georeferencing are left to the respective working groups. Definition of data structure for ingestion is left to MISC working group. |
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Links |
Minimum Information Standards & Semantics
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
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Mission & Scope | 1) Establish the working group and its goals, with the guidance of participants from the MISC breakout group from iDigBio's It Standards workshop. 2) Document basic assumptions underpinning a minimal information for scientific collections expectation. 3) Develop a document outlining and providing a rationale for required, minimal, desired, and supplementary data elements to be provided by iDigBio contributors. 4) Develop guidelines for data validation, training and assistance to iDigBio contributors for configuring data for ingestion into the iDigBio portal |
Overlap with Other Working Groups | Potential overlap with authority files. |
Links |
Georeferencing Working Group (GWG)
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
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Mission & Scope | Our first goals are to start building a community of expert Georeferencing trainers in a workshop to be held October 8 - 12, 2012 and advance the capabilities of Georeferencing tools. Want to know more? Contact Deborah Paul or other members of the working group. We'd love to hear from you. |
Overlap with Other Working Groups | |
Links | Georeferencing Resources Georeferencing Wiki |
Augmenting OCR (aOCR)
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Active |
Members |
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Mission & Scope | Engage experts in the biodiversity and information technology fields to identify opportunities to broadly implement existing effective OCR tools and enhance
existing Machine and Natural Language Processing technologies to meet the needs of the biodiversity community. Want to know more? Contact Bryan Heidorn or Deborah Paul or any other member of the working group. We'd like to hear from you! |
Overlap with Other Working Groups | Needing access to the specimen label images on the iDigBio server, the aOCR working group overlaps with the cyberinfrastructure working group. This includes OS issues as well as hardware minimum requirements necessary for whatever hack-a-thon type activities the aOCR group persues. |
Links | Augmenting OCR and NLP Forum Augmenting OCR Listserve |
Inactive Working Groups
Intellectual Property Policy
Data Field | Details |
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Status | Inactive |
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Mission & Scope | Produce a clear Intellectual Property Policy to establish data ownership rights and data re-use requirements related to content presented via iDigBio by collections and institutions. |
Overlap with Other Working Groups | None identified |
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Note: This document is open for community comment |