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I believe this message went to im-at-lternet on Friday, but there may have been some problem with delivery, so I am resending. If this is a duplicate, sorry for the clutter. <br><br>This is an invitation to the first EDI workshop on thematic standardization, where we will concentrate on datasets pertaining about populations, communities and biodiversity, e,g., with organism abundance and density, etc. <br>
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The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is an NSF-funded project tasked
with supporting data curation for several ecosystem-level programs.
Building on the premise that synthesis research would be easier if
similar datasets were presented or formatted in a similar manner, EDI is
creating best practice recommendations for thematically grouped
datasets.<br>
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This initial workshop will address dataset formats, metadata content and
data manipulation scripts in the thematic area of long-term studies of
populations, communities and biodiversity. These data are currently of
particularly high demand for several synthesis projects. We would like
to assemble a group of data scientists involved with those projects and
data managers familiar with the data to address the high degree of
heterogeneity and availability/discoverability of the data. The workshop
has three major goals: (1) to assist with data assembly/formatting
needs for population and community data, (2) summarize the formats,
code, packaging patterns, metadata content, and vocabularies that work
best, and (3) build formal recommendations for data providers.<br>
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We invite you to attend this workshop June 6-8, at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque. The EDI has participant support funds for travel,
accommodation and meals. Since this is planned to be a relatively small
group (12-15) with hands-on work, we will tailor workshop activities to
the participants specific needs. For that reason, we do not yet have a
formal agenda, but will certainly be developing one with your input.<br>
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You may reserve space by responding to this message by Monday April 17
at the latest. However, because this is a small group, space may be
filled before then.<br>
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Important dates:<br>
Mon, April 17, COB participant list finalized<br>
Mon, April 17 logistics posted<br>
Tu-Th, June 6-8 - Workshop in Albuquerque (travel on Mon/Fri)<br>
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best,<br>
Margaret<br>
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Margaret O'Brien<br>
Information Management<br>
Marine Science Institute, UCSB<br>
Santa Barbara, CA 93106<br>
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<div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72">Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071 (voice)
<a href="http://environmentaldatainitiative.org" target="_blank">http://environmentaldatainitiative.org</a>
<a href="http://sbc.marinebon.org" target="_blank">http://sbc.marinebon.org</a>
<a href="http://sbc.lternet.edu" target="_blank">http://sbc.lternet.edu</a></pre></div></div></div>
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