Dear ESG members,
In case you are interested the collection WG have some talks on
Wednesday on field labels and Wikidata, see details below.
Cheers
Laura
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Subject: CETAF Collections Group monthly session: 24 April, 11.00-12.00
CEST Good Field Labels & Research Expeditions inWikidata
Date: 2024-04-22 14:18
From: Luc Willemse <luc.willemse@naturalis.nl>
To: Laurence Bénichou <laurence.benichou@mnhn.fr>, Isabelle Gerard
<Isabelle.gerard@africamuseum.be>, Dirk Neumann
<d.neumann@leibniz-lib.de>, "heimo.rainer@NHM-WIEN.AC.AT"
<heimo.rainer@nhm-wien.ac.at>, Güntsch, Anton <A.Guentsch@bo.berlin>,
Alessandro Marchi <amarchi@naturalsciences.be>, Gila Kahila
<gila.kahila@mail.huji.ac.il>, Thierry Bourgoin
<thierry.bourgoin@mnhn.fr>, marko.lovric@cetaf.org, Ana Casino
<acasino@naturalsciences.be>, Iasmi Stathi <iasmistathi@gmail.com>,
David Ott <D.Ott@leibniz-lib.de>, "laura.tilley"
<laura.tilley@cetaf.org>, Luc Willemse <luc.willemse@naturalis.nl>,
Marko Lovric <mlovric@naturalsciences.be>
Dear CETAF working Group leaders,
This coming Wednesday, 24 APRIL (11:00-12:00 CET), the CETAF Collections
Group organizes its fourth monthly session in 2024. This time there will
be two presentations:
LUCA VOSS (MFN, BERLIN): Good field labels save time and sanity
The importance of good field labels cannot be understated. They link the
specimen with the collection event data. If the information on the field
labels is lost due to wrong materials used or the collector not proving
the necessary data afterwards the value of the specimen for scientific
purposes is greatly reduced. To circumvent these pitfalls the talk will
give examples of materials to use from pencils to strings. But will also
explore which information is the most useful on a field label from the
viewpoint of long term storage.
ANNIKA HENDRIKSEN (NATURALIS, LEIDEN): Research expeditions in wikidata
Many specimens and other collection objects are related to scientific
expeditions, both recent and historical.
By linking the data from these expeditions to the specimens with stable
identifiers, we can not only form a better picture of the provenance of
these objects, but also link them to other object types such as archival
material and images. Above all, we can link specimens and objects across
different types of collections (natural history, ethnographic etc.) in
separate institutions.
An international working group, now a TDWG task group [1], is concerned
with modeling this data, the use of Wikidata as a community curated
vocabulary and the integration of PIDs in collection registration
systems, to open up collection data related to expeditions.
Following the presentation, there will of course be time for questions.
This is the ZOOM LINK TO ACCESS THE SESSION [2].
As always, colleagues are welcome to join the session; PLEASE FORWARD
THIS MAIL WITHIN YOUR CETAF WORKING GROUP and to anyone who might be
interested. Apologies for any cross posting.
Hoping many of you join the session!
With kind regards on behalf of the CETAF Collections Group.
Hoping many of you join the session!
With kind regards on behalf of the CETAF Collections Group
Luc Willemse
Senior Collection Manager Orthopteroids
Chair CETAF Collections Group
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luc.willemse@naturalis.nl - www.naturalis.nl [4]
Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden
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Links:
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[1] https://www.tdwg.org/community/cd/expeditions/
[2]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89005884563?pwd=aG5vQ0s2VGhLeXdqa2ZGcWNaOVRzUT09
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