IDigBio Working Groups
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 column "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.
Working Group Overview
| Group Name | Status | Members | Mission & Scope | Overlap with Other Working Groups | Links |
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| Citizen Science | Active |
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Identify and improve aspects of biodiversity digitization workflows that can be newly architected or enhanced to take advance of Citizen Science engagement. |
Citizen Science / Eductation & Outreach Workshop Citizen Science / Education & Outreach Workshop Target Participants | |
| Authority Files | Active |
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| Cyber Infrastructure | Active | 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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| Minimum Information Standards & Semantics | Active |
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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 |
Potential overlap with authority files. | |
| Geo
referencing Working Group (GWG) |
Active |
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Our first goals are to start building a community of expert Georeferencing trainers in a workshop to be held in the fall or winter of 2012 and advance the capabilities of Georeferencing tools. Want to know more? Contact Deborah Paul | ||
| Augmenting OCR (aOCR) | Active |
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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 |
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| Intellectual Property Policy | Inactive |
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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. | None identified |
Note: This document is open for community comment |