#darwincore — Public Fediverse posts

✨ Last week, the GBIF Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Africa 2026 (French session) brought together >40 participants from 13 African countries!

The four-day workshop was organized by the Africa Regional Support Team and covered:
➖Biodiversity data mobilization foundations
➖Data capture and data structuring (#DarwinCore)
➖Data cleaning with OpenRefine
➖Data publishing through IPT and GBIF.

⭐ Applications for the English version are open until 31 May: https://gbif.link/Data-Mob-Wshop-Africa

I wrote a little guide on how to import the #darwincore #RDF into #OmkeaS for my digital garden. Maybe someone of you will find it useful.

https://majdal.cc/darwincore_omeka

📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed!

Join the discussions to understand what changes are being proposed, how to interpret documentation and how to engage in the review process. This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀

Register for a session in your time zone here: 🔗https://www.tdwg.org/news/2025/community-help-desk-for-darwin-core-public-review/

🔎 Curious about the new #DarwinCore public review process? Listen up! 📣

@tdwg are hosting informal help desk and Q&A sessions on the Darwin Core public review over the coming weeks.

Join the discussions to understand what changes are being proposed, how to interpret documentation and how to engage in the review process.

Sessions are hosted by Erica Krimmel, John Wieczorek and Ben Norton.

Register for a session in your time zone here: 🔗

https://www.tdwg.org/news/2025/community-help-desk-for-darwin-core-public-review/

🚨 Public review now OPEN 🚨

Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore

The @tdwg Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide.

🗓️ Review period: 17 September – 16 December 2025
🔗 Participate: https://www.tdwg.org/news/2025/public-review-of-conceptual-model-and-dp-guide-for-darwin-core/

Feedback is especially valuable! TDWG welcomes all community members, particularly those with technical expertise to participate. 💚

🌺Merci beaucoup à Céline Boudard pour ce post évoquant le travail de notre équipe ExpoDoR de l' @InistCNRS sur l'#herbier 🌿#PhyloAlps de l'univ. Grenoble Alpes 🏔️
#Omeka @cnrs #herbarium #botanic #DarwinCore #Recolnat 🌱️
https://www.jardindulautaret.com/agenda-actualites/actualites/inventorier-le-vivant-et-le-rendre-accessible-1555974.kjsp

Are you hardcore into #DarwinCore? 😎

The Darwin Core Maintenance Group are seeking public review for the accumulated set of proposed changes to Darwin Core. 👀

🐸 Interested in contributing? The review period will be open for at least 30 days. 🔗https://www.tdwg.org/news/2025/darwin-core-public-review-2025/

Terms: 🔗https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/

How does the #DarwinCore standard tackle data fragmentation and foster knowledge sharing? Our 2024 workshop explored these challenges and showcased solutions like ontologies, open repositories, and much more!
Rewatch: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2025/01/15/biodivmon-workshop-on-darwin-core/

Sign up for the Virtual #DataUse Workshop for #Asia to learn the basics of using GBIF-mediated data for research and policy!

Covering #DarwinCore, #DataQuality, the GBIF.org platform, GBIF APIs and wrangling GBIF data in R, this course is for researchers or technicians in #biodiversity #research or #policy institutions looking to improve their data use skills.

(Deadline for applying is 23 June 2024)

https://www.gbif.org/event/e0af19-ba32-42d2-9cc2-bfa17b3/virtual-data-use-workshop-for-asia-2024

For those of you doing #EcologicalMonitoring, note that a group at #TDWG, led by Yanina Sica, has been working on a set of global data standards for ecological monitoring, called the #HumboldtCore. This builds on the widely used #DarwinCore that is used for museum collections and casual observations (it's the biodiversity data sharing standard that makes #GBIF possible).

This month the final draft of Humboldt Core is open for public feedback at https://github.com/tdwg/hc/milestone/1

#biodiversity

#tdwg s #standard development is driven by its #community: Please help our #DarwinCore Maintenance Group in further improving one of our most important standards by reviewing the proposed changes: https://www.tdwg.org/news/2023/darwin-core-public-review/ #standards #biodiversity

Wow. Deb Paul of #iDigBio uses #ChatGPT to parse fields from raw OCR into structured data (#DarwinCore):

https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32#issuecomment-1344756915 (and following three comments)