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Subject: Invitation: TDWG Collection Description standard development
BBQ2 and BBQ3! (Tasty Standards Work)
Date: 2020-03-16 21:32
 From: Deborah Paul <dpaul@fsu.edu>
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Dear Collection Descriptions Task Group,

We'd like to invite you to join us at one of the upcoming TDWG CD Task
Group Barbeques to work on the standard. Two more are coming up next
week. About 15 of you joined us for BBQ1 - thank you! Please mark your
calendars for one (or both!) of these:

BBQ TWO

THU 26TH MARCH

9:00-11:00 EDT

8:00-10:00 CDT

13:00-15:00 GMT/UTC

14:00-16:00 CET

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/480620589 [1]

BBQ THREE

FRI 27TH MARCH

10:00-12:00 CDT

11:00-13:00 EDT

15:00-17:00 GMT/UTC

16:00-18:00 CET

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/951867625 [2]

WHY ARE WE DOING THESE?

We're aiming to get a first draft of the Collection Descriptions data
standard finished in September this year, which means finalising the
draft standard's classes and properties, and their definitions, for
review and ratification. However, there's a fair amount of work to get
through before then, so we need to draw on as much of your knowledge,
experience and time as is available in the coming months to get there.

   The input that we're looking for in these sessions can include:

        * refining (or add, if missing) the names, definitions and examples
for the classes and terms that have been identified so far
        * proposing any new classes or properties that are missing but should
be included in the first draft
        * highlighting any of the current classes or properties that should
not be included in the first draft (or in the standard in general)
        * suggesting controlled vocabularies for properties where appropriate
        * proposing existing properties or terms from other data standards
that could be re-used for the CD standard, instead of creating a
property from scratch

Please note that the intention of these particular sessions is to focus
on the development of the standard, rather than to discuss the more
strategic elements of how collection descriptions schemes and registries
should work within the community (as important and tempting as that
is!).

HOW DO THEY WORK?

We'll run a virtual meeting using Zoom for the duration of the session
(see meeting links below). This will start with a short introduction to
the standard, useful resources, and how to work on the standard within
the group's Github repository and Slack. After that, the Zoom meeting
will remain open for chat and questions, but people are also welcome to
drop out of the meeting to just work and communicate via Github issues.
Although the session runs for two hours, after the introduction we're
also happy for people to dip in and out as they're available (and to
keep working after the session ends, of course!).

Each session will include a number of coordinators, who are more
familiar with the standard and Github and have kindly agreed to help
provide support and answer questions.

This isn't a method we've tried before (but the Carpentries.org folks
have), so there will be a certain element of working it out as we go
along!

MORE INFORMATION

If you haven't seen looked at it recently (or at all!), it would be
worth browsing our Github repo in advance (https://github.com/tdwg/cd
[3]) to get up to speed on the group's work. We'll also be using a
Google sheet
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w8DMgUwl7tf-9AXQOpT6IRQeMuUbxUZlJwQinrtUvAs
[4]) as an index to help people navigate the standard and decide what to
work on. It will be updated prior to the first BBQ to reflect the work
carried out at last month's MOBILISE workshop, and also after the BBQs,
but in the meantime please feel free to use it to click around.

   If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Hope to see
many of you online in the near future!

Best,

   Deb and Matt
Apologies to anyone who gets this email twice, as we're circulating to
both the TDWG group and to participants in the recent MOBILISE
collection description workshop in Warsaw, and we know that there's a
reasonable amount of crossover between the two groups.

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Links:
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[1]
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zoom.us/j/480620589__;!!PhOWcWs!mGo92BtnQ3o_LPAG0itxj1sNYVmv6EhBGBdJEJWtHUy_R6JHcxY40qqNG5l6CQ$
[2]
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zoom.us/j/951867625__;!!PhOWcWs!mGo92BtnQ3o_LPAG0itxj1sNYVmv6EhBGBdJEJWtHUy_R6JHcxY40qrY3_JvlQ$
[3]
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/tdwg/cd__;!!PhOWcWs!mGo92BtnQ3o_LPAG0itxj1sNYVmv6EhBGBdJEJWtHUy_R6JHcxY40qo-Lc8bcA$
[4]
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w8DMgUwl7tf-9AXQOpT6IRQeMuUbxUZlJwQinrtUvAs__;!!PhOWcWs!mGo92BtnQ3o_LPAG0itxj1sNYVmv6EhBGBdJEJWtHUy_R6JHcxY40qpwh58QKg$

Dear Colleagues,

For those that are interested - the TDWG collection description (virtual
working meeting) is happening at 16:00 - 18:00 (CET). They have
expressed the need for insight from the earth science community in
checking collection description terms and whether additions need to be
made to cover earth science.

I will be attending!

Best wishes

Laura
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