Yes! It's almost Darwin Core Hour Time.
If you have field-based research data, if you use scientific collections
data in your ecological research, policy, or conservation work, join us
to learn more about Kurator Web
(http://kurator.acis.ufl.edu/kurator-web/), including a live demo. Find
out how you can use this suite of tools to enhance your collections and
research datasets.
When: Tuesday Oct 24th @ 11 AM EDT, 12 PM ART, 3 PM UTC, 5 PM CEST
Where: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Presenter: John Wieczorek Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University; VertNet
Title: Darwin Core Hour: Kurator Web - for Cleaner Biodiversity Data
MORE details:
https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-kurator-web-cleaner-biodiversity-data
Abstract: When we think about biodiversity data and its use, we often
immediately wonder about the data quality and how to improve it. The
Kurator project is one of the initiatives addressing this issue, and
aims at building data quality control and enhancement tools that can be
readily used by people with different technical skill levels. One such
tool is the Kurator Web application. This tool allows users to execute
web-based data quality improvement workflows on biodiversity data,
especially on data shared using Darwin Core terms, without the need for
programming expertise. In this webinar we will demonstrate the use of
Kurator Web to run pre-existing data quality workflows, some of which
include: aligning datasets with Darwin Core terms, comparing unique
values in datasets with controlled vocabularies, and providing
suggestions for improvements for existing data. Finally, we will provide
some context on how these tools can integrate with broader workflows and
some perspective on the future of biodiversity data quality.
More (about) Darwin Core Hours: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars
From the entire DwC Hour Team - See you next Tuesday,
Deb Paul, et al
(and yes, please excuse the cross-postings - we don't want anyone to miss!)
LINK to how to get the most out of Adobe Connect
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing
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