Integrated summary from 17 to 30 April 2020

Collections Catalogue
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This is an integrated summary of all discussion points on documents, presentations and the process from all daily summaries.

  • Comments on this virtual consultation process
    • R: Discussion around the levels of activity in this consultation. In future consider more visibility via social media, use “likes” to get more signs of participation.
    • R: It is important to engage with less well resourced collections. Discussion of possible reasons why some stakeholder may have chosen not to participate.
  • Document: 10 recommendations from DiSSCo
    • R: We may need to build a hierarchically organised catalogue of all scientific collections with separate interfaces and branding for important subsets.
    • R: Ethnobotanical and zooarchaeological collections are two more examples of collections which may need to be accommodated from multiple perspectives.
    • R: Zoos, aquaria and culture collections are sufficiently different that they would need separate support. It would be best to focus on preserved biological collections first.
    • R: Multiple collection abbreviations may need to be associated with each collection identifier.
  • Document: GBIF Services and Support for the Collections Catalogue
    • R: Many ideas in response to the GBIF paper on possible web interfaces for collection information.
    • R: Collection catalogue interfaces need to show good provenance information on the source of content.
  • Presentation: ALA Collectory
    • R Has the ALA solved issues recognising the same occurrence record from different sources?
  • Presentation: CETAF and DiSSCo Collections Registry
    • R: Discussion of the range of codes associated with RBINS/ISRcNB/KBIN.
    • R: Example of the range of codes associated with RBINS/ISRcNB/KBIN and how codes are presented by the CETAF Profiles.
  • Presentation: TDWG Collection Descriptions Data Standard Task Group
    • R: The CD standard should include an element to show which collection management software is used by the collection.
    • R: Discussion of possible benefits in exposing information on the collection management system in the collection description record.
    • R: Registration, or automated discovery, of endpoints associated with collection management systems could be a very flexible approach.
  • Presentation: The Specifications of Earth Science Collections (CETAF)
    • R: Are the vocabularies that this presentation discusses already stable and ready for wider use?
    • R: Standards and vocabularies are still under development for earth science and paleobiology materials. DiSSCo Prepare is working on these.
    • R: Status of vocabularies for earth science collection categories.