| Action
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Interpretation and notes
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Existing activities
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Planned activities
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Products
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| Moving taxonomy into the digital world
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| i. Supporting shared database infrastructure and open access policies |
There are no agreed CETAF open access policies. Is this adressed in one of the DiSSCo projects? |
Existing shared database infrastructures with strong CETAF involvement are for example JACQ, DINA, and Diversity Workbench |
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JACQ, DINA, Diversity Workbench
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| ii. Making taxonomy data digitally interpretable and retrievable |
Relates to DiSSCo OpenDS and ISTC LOD activities as well as stable and standardised (web) services in general. |
LOD activities in SYNTHESYS+ and MOBILISE, OpenDS specification and implementation in DiSSCoPrepare, Botany pilot LOD system; TDWG - BSC-IG (Biodiversity and Clients Interest Group) |
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| iii. Increasing the use of collection data |
ISTC ID initiative works towards this goal, we need more streamlined services for integrating collection data in research workflows |
Botany pilot, Wikidata activities (Mobilise) |
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| Ensuring retrievable, connected and interoperable biodiversity data
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| i. Using commonly agreed ‘stable identifiers’ for the natural history collections |
Clearly CETAF IDs |
CETAF/ISTC ID initiative, activities in SYNTHESYS+ |
ID Registry, standard (RDF) metadata |
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| ii. Implementing recognised collection metadata descriptions |
Unclear, where this will be defined and implemented; relates to CETAF passports and other (TDWG) attempest to standardise collection descriptions |
Global Collections Catalogue (workshop and consultation organised by GBIF) |
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| iii. Linking European, national and regional collections of specimens and data (checklists or databases) |
Extend LOD-approach to "other" data types |
SYNTHESYS+ standards work package, DiSSCo Prepare standards / common resources activities |
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| Disseminating data and data processing standards, thesauri and controlled vocabularies
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| i. Continuing the development of compatible data standards |
Much progress with regard to collection data (ABCD, DwC, etc.), more work needed for establishing agreed vocabularies and standards for "other" data types |
SYNTHESYS+ standards work package, MOBILISE, DiSSCo Prepare Data Model |
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ABCD; DwC; GGBN; MOD-CO
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| ii. Adopting and implementing guidelines on standards |
Adoption of standards can be measured by the number of standards compliant service implementations (e.g. collection provider software, LOD services, etc.). "Implementing guidelines" does not really differ from iii. |
SYNTHESYS+ ID/LOD activities |
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| iii. Collating and distributing interoperable standards for biodiversity data and natural history specimen databasing |
Should be a dynamic documentation (e.g. wiki page) linking to actively maintained standardisation efforts |
SYNTHESYS+, MOBILISE |
DiSSCo prepare |
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| iv. Establishing and promoting specimen data and database citation standards (source recognition) |
Is this addressed in CETAF or one of the DiSSCo projects?, MOBILISE WG for data publication |
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| Safeguarding long-term data storage, curation and longevity
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| i. Organising the maintenance of a supported system for data storage |
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MOBILISE WG for data archiving |
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| ii. Adopting processes for orphan databases or digital information |
Not yet a CETAF activity. There is a national (German) system dealing with orphaned databases (https://rebind.bgbm.org/), which could be used as a basis for a European activity. There is also a CODATA Interest Group "data at risk" |
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| Action
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Interpretation and notes
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Existing activities
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Planned activities
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Products
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| Promoting the physical or digital accessibility to collections
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| v. Collaborating with major initiatives on specimen data sharing, data annotation and data-flow |
DiSSCo and related projects, as well as other national and international initiatives |
DWG partners in all the DiSSCo-related projects and sharing information |
More collaboration with international initiatives and more sharing information about national initiatives |
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| Digitising and databasing collections
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| i. Exploring methods and best practices in data storage and data curation |
Need to clarify DWG and ISTC roles here |
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| ii. Supporting the development of digitisation policies, techniques and technology |
Need to bring in SYNTHESYS3 work on the Management Plan on Digital Collections (MPDC) |
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| iii. Exploring the development of storage and digitisation infrastructures |
Need to clarify DWG and ISTC roles here |
DiSSCo related activities |
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