Yes! It's almost Darwin Core Hour Time.
In this enthralling installment, we will all be getting a closer
look at Kurator Web (http://kurator.acis.ufl.edu/kurator-web/), and
a live demo too. Won't you please join us to learn more about this
suite of tools and how you can use them 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
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 details:
https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-kurator-web-cleaner-biodiversity-data
More (about) Darwin Core Hours:
https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars
LINK to how to get the most out of Adobe Connect
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing
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!)
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