Collections Catalogue - Daily Summaries

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Daily summary from 24 April 2020

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This summary covers activity from 23:00 UTC on 22 April 2020 to 23:00 UTC on 23 April 2020. The following questions and points were raised. Summaries in other languages are posted to the Spanish and Chinese consultation pages. Visit the consultation site to add your thoughts to these and other topics.

• 1.3. First step towards databasing collections (USE)
  • Question: What information do paleontological collections typically already hold regarding their materials?
• 1.4. Assessing the scale and value of collections (USE)
  • Response: It is important to consider broader societal value as well as pure economic value.
• 1.8. Improvements to citation and visibility for collections (USE)
  • Response: Citation is likely to be increased if the catalogue makes links with other information tools such as ROR records.
  • Response: We need good citation practices to be built into the whole research lifecycle, including how we apply the FAIR principles.
• 1.9. Support for national and regional needs and applications (USE)
  • Response: See the DiSSCo user stories as examples of the need to assess value.
• 2.1. Scope for the catalogue and definition of “collection” (INFORMATION)
  • Response: The 10 Recommendations from DiSSCo presentation includes DiSSCo’s perspectives on this topic.
• 2.2. Identifiers for collections (INFORMATION)
  • Response: Our efforts to help institutions identify their collections will help other communities such as libraries.
  • Response: The 10 Recommendations from DiSSCo presentation includes DiSSCo’s perspectives on this topic.
• 2.4. Description of a collection (INFORMATION)
  • Response: Different disciplines or sectors need different profiles instead of just more options.
• 2.5. Wider data linkages (INFORMATION)
  • Question: What can be done to help institutions in data-poor regions such as south-west Asia to participate?
• 3.4. Collection management systems (TECHNOLOGY)
  • Response: GBIF is already integrating digitisation progress information from Index Herbariorum into GRSciColl.
  • Response: Work is under way on a MIDS (minimum information about a digital specimen) standard.
• 3.5. Interfaces, APIs and client modules (TECHNOLOGY)
  • Response: Design mock-ups need to show more than just how the catalogue can be viewed by humans.
• 4.2. Communities of practice (GOVERNANCE)
  • Response: Major challenges may occur in cases where e.g. a regional catalogue and a disciplinary catalogue both include the same collection in their scope.
• 4.6. Funding and sustainability (GOVERNANCE)
  • Response: Resources are not evenly distributed globally - we should consider ways to enable altruism and partnerships to support less-resourced collections.
• Presentation: TDWG Collection Descriptions Data Standard Task Group
  • Response: Discussion of possible benefits in exposing information on the collection management system in the collection description record.
• Document: GBIF Services and Support for the Collections Catalogue
  • Response: Collection catalogue interfaces need to show good provenance information on the source of content.