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A community-curated controlled vocabulary for fossil collections using dwc:materialEntityType
A granular, community-derived vocabulary for dwc:materialEntityType would let users filter fossil records by what the material actually is, which basisOfRecord cannot do.
Holly Little ↗
Future interfaces for BHL
Modern AI tools make new BHL interfaces feasible now (better OCR, image and map search, chatbots); the community must decide which are worth building.
Roderic Page ↗
Infrastructure-driven solutions to strengthen semantic interoperability in ecology
A federated terminology service over 28 catalogs plus community alignments tackles the fragmentation of ecological vocabularies.
Cristina Di Muri ↗
SYM08B discussion: extracting geography and articles from BHL
Article-level discoverability and geographic extraction are key BHL gaps that AI may now make tractable, but resourcing remains the constraint.
Nicole Kearney, Roderic Page ↗
The Latimer Core standard and the Global Registry of Scientific Collections
Latimer Core gives GRSciColl a common language and exchange format for describing collections between free text and specimen records.
Marie Grosjean ↗
From Client to App: Extending Diversity Workbench with REST and graphical web interfaces
A concept-based REST API and search index let LIB build flexible web interfaces and ingest data on top of the complex Diversity Workbench database.
Björn Quast ↗
Operationalising biodiversity DT ecosystems through assessment-driven service mapping and reusable tools and workflow integration
A simple, purpose-first assessment that maps a team's needs and capabilities to an inventory of existing tools helps digital twin projects reuse rather than rebuild.
Syrine Ben Aziza ↗
The Unruliness of Higher Geography: What is it doing for us?
Darwin Core needs more explicit, time-aware ways to share human and physical geography so data without coordinates can still be discovered and used.
Erica Krimmel ↗
Enabling machine-readable access to biodiversity data through federated semantic querying
Distribute the data, not the infrastructure: cloud Parquet plus OBDA query rewriting gives a virtual Darwin Core knowledge graph without duplicating data into RDF.
El-Amine Mimouni ↗