Meeting Report: GBIF hackathon-workshop on Darwin Core and sample data (22-24 May 2013)
Author(s) -
John Wieczorek,
Olaf Bánki,
Stan Blum,
John Deck,
Markus Döring,
Gabriele Dröge,
Dag Endresen,
Philip Goldstein,
Patrick Leary,
Leonard Krishtalka,
Éamonn Ó Tuama,
Robert Robbins,
Tim Robertson,
Pelin Yilmaz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
standards in genomic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1944-3277
DOI - 10.4056/sigs.4898640
Subject(s) - darwin (adl) , variety (cybernetics) , core (optical fiber) , sample (material) , publishing , data archive , computer science , data science , biodiversity , library science , world wide web , database , political science , biology , ecology , chemistry , software engineering , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , chromatography , law
The workshop-hackathon was convened by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) at its secretariat in Copenhagen over 22-24 May 2013 with additional support from several projects (RCN4GSC, EAGER, VertNet, BiSciCol, GGBN, and Micro B3). It assembled a team of experts to address the challenge of adapting the Darwin Core standard for a wide variety of sample data. Topics addressed in the workshop included 1) a review of outstanding issues in the Darwin Core standard, 2) issues relating to publishing of biodiversity data through Darwin Core Archives, 3) use of Darwin Core Archives for publishing sample and monitoring data, 4) the case for modifying the Darwin Core Text Guide specification to support many-to-many relations, and 5) the generalization of the Darwin Core Archive to a “Biodiversity Data Archive”. A wide variety of use cases were assembled and discussed in order to inform further developments.
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