The document discusses the need to better recognize and attribute the work of natural historians like taxonomists. It proposes recording attribution data using metadata standards to track things like who identified a specimen and when. This would help give proper credit to taxonomists and their institutions. The document also suggests approaches like parsing names from text and linking to identifiers to accurately attribute digital and physical collections. Standards need to capture the types of actions performed like identifying, collecting and curating. Developing common services and test suites could help apply this attribution consistently at scale.
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1. What are the Drivers?
and how do we intend to meaningfully respond to them?
David P. Shorthouse
Canadian Museum of Nature
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (April 1)
2. Is it possible that the lack of recognition in the academic assessment
system of these forms of productivity has contributed to the diminished
statusindeed even the near disappearance from many academic
departmentsof traditional systematics
Collecting
Curating
Identifying
Naming
4. trust in an aggregator is not just a feature of the data signal quality provided by the
sources to the aggregator, but also a consequence of the social design of the
aggregation process and the resulting power balance between individual data
contributors and aggregators.
7. Ingredients to Make This Happen
Newly digitized specimen
IRI identifiedBy
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/identifiedBy
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-2848
institutionCode
ORCID: ringgold, GRID
dateIdentified
ORCID: employment/education
start/end date
GRBIO ?
not sameAs
22. Prospective ApproachClean Dirt
RDA / TDWG Metadata Standards for
attribution of physical and digital collections stewardship
Chairs: Anne Thessen, Matt Woodburn, Dimitris Koureas
25. What Actions Do We Care About?
authored
borrowed
catalogued
collected
conserved
contributed
created
curated
georeferenced
reviewed
https://github.com/tdwg/attribution/issues/5
26. Wishlist
Test suite for parsing lists of names: text file with expectedJSON response
Charles R. Darwin Esq.
[{ family: Darwin, given:Charles R., title:Esq.}]
leg. A. Chuvilin
[{family:Chivilin,given:A.}]
N. Navarro, G. G坦mez y A Ferreira
[{family:Navarro,given:N.},
{family:G坦mez, given:G.},
{family:Ferreira, given:A}]}
27. Wishlist
Common, consistent way to handle search
Elasticsearch, Solr plugin
Services
Input: raw string of name(s), optional parameters
Output: parsed name, identifiers, likelihood score
Actions for inclusion in a DwC extension