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2011 National Dataversity Workshop: Shared Data, Linked Systems
From:
Dan Randow
Date:
Jul 14 12:11 NZST
You are invited to participate in the 2011 National Dataversity Workshop -- Shared Data, Linked Systems on 25 July in Wellington. Details are at <http://dataversity.org.nz/about/workshops/national_workshop_2011/>. Please pass this on to anyone who you think would be interested. My apologies if you have received this more than once. This is going to be a power-packed day of wide-ranging reports from the NZ biodata field, work sessions on sector-wide biodata projects, and input into new initiatives and new directions. You will return from this workshop with: * up to date news about what's going on in the biodata scene and ideas you can apply in your organisation * new and renewed relationships that you can call on to solve problems, collaborate on projects This year, there is more momentum than ever for biodata initiatives and improved data-management in general around local government, central government and CRIs. We are seeing the emergence of a biodata management ecosystem comprising: * shared biodata standards and management frameworks, * modular and interoperable shared systems, and * national systems and services. This enables organisations of all kinds and sizes to participate in improving the collection, management and sharing of biodata. It does not mean you have to share your data, or link your systems but it means that you can. And if you do, or even if you just pick up the tools and standards that do, you will find easier and more robust ways to manage your data for internal purposes -- and they are mostly cheap or free. This workshop will bring together reports on the biodata ecosystem so that you get to benefit from its vitality. You will then participate in hands-on work sessions, both on existing projects and on ideas we haven't even thought of yet, so you will get to contribute to the momentum of biodata management and the direction that takes. The mix of structured and less-structured sessions, along with generous breaks will ensure that you have plenty of opportunity to process what you are hearing and feed ideas into the main stream. Based on the feedback from previous workshops, the most valuable things you will get from this day are: * renewed vision for what is possible, * confidence that you are on the right track, and * enthusiasm to implement new ideas to improve biodata management. If you would like to give a report on a biodata project you are working on, please let me know (if you would like to give a report but can't be there in person, still let me know -- we can be creative).
Dan -- @danrandow +64-27-431-4928 +64-3-377-5377 Chief Wrangler http://onlinegroups.net
Hi All, With apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this… the national Dataversity workshop is taking place this Thursday and Friday, 19 and 20 March, in Wellington. With 26 participants confirmed, this workshop will provide insight into biodiversity data management trends and issues in local and national government and opportunities to cost-effectively improve biodata management in your organisation. Details of the workshop are below. If you would like to participate in this workshop, and have not yet registered, please let me know ASAP. cheers, Dan NATIONAL DATAVERSITY WORKSHOP on LOCAL GOVERNMENT BIODIVERSITY DATA MANAGEMENT 19 and 20 March 2009, the Brentwood Hotel, Kilbirnie, Wellington. PURPOSE The purpose of the meeting is to find ways to improve the management of terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity data in local government. The meeting aims to achieve this by raising awareness of the systems that already exist, and the challenges that are faced by those who look after biodata in local government. The meeting will also build relationships that will be useful for ongoing collaboration, and generate useful ideas and opportunities to solve problems. INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE Those who are involved in areas that are relevant to NZ local government biodiversity data management, are invited to participate. This particularly includes people who manage biodiversity databases in local government, central government, CRIs and other agencies. There is no fee for the workshop. To register email <email obscured>. VENUE Brentwood Hotel 16 Kemp Street Kilbirnie Wellington Phone: +64 4 920 0400 There is lots of parking on site. The Brentwood provides a 24 hour complimentary airport shuttle service. Call 0508 273 689 and they will pick you up outside the 'Arrivals Terminal' (downstairs). To book accomodation at the Brentwood, use the following form. http://dataversity.org.nz/r/file/1928-2009-02-23T045044Z/Brentwood_Registration_Form.pdf PROGRAMME Thursday 19 March 09:00-17:00 Introductions. State of Local Government Biodiversity Data Management Local Government Systems and Trends Mike McMurty: ARC's Ecobase (telepresentation) Jim Fretwell: EBoP's integrated biodiversity suite Lindsay Vaughan and Kay Anderson(TDC): How a small council handles its biosecurity and biodiversity data. Ryan Clark and Yanbin Deng: Biodiversity Prioritisation work at Environment Waikato. James Lambie: Horizons' Ecobase 18:30 Dinner Friday 20 March 09:00-17:00 National Systems and Trends Jerry Cooper — NZOR, NVS and other Landcare Research biodiversity systems. Lynnette Hartley and Shirley Vollweiler — DoC's NHMS system. Jim McLeod — LUCAS, LCDB & OneLand Liz Kolster — SSC's Object Registry service Opportunities & Actions CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS Christchurch City Council Liz Garsen Environment Bay of Plenty Jim Fretwell Heather McKenzie Environment Waikato Yanbin Deng Ryan Clark Horizons James Lambie Tasman District Council Kay Anderson Lindsay Vaughan Wellington City Council Naomi Witham Marc Slade Nelson City Council Paul Fisher Cawthron Paul Barter Greater Wellington Regional Council Philippa Crisp Owen Spearpoint Sara Moylan Pedro Jenson Henry Haines Bruce Brewer DoC Lynnette Hartley Shirley Vollweiler Landcare Research Jerry Cooper MoRST Isabella Cawthorn One-Land Jim McLeod TFBIS Alan White Susie James SSC Liz Kolster
--- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator and Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://twitter.com/danrandow skype: vonrandow
The Dataversity Private Discussion online group has been running since November 2007[1]. Because it is open only to local government (terrestrial and freshwater) biodata managers, it is useful for private discussion among the core members of Dataversity. It does not, however, enable conversations between core members and other stakeholders in local government biodata management. I have therefore opened a new public online group for inter-sectoral engagement about NZ local government biodata management. It is called "Dataversity Public Discussion". http://dataversity.org.nz/groups/dataversity_public_discuss Anyone can join the group, and all posts to the group are visible to the public. I am about to send invitations to all the members of the Dataversity Public Announcements group (that includes all members of the private discussion group) to join. All of the following are encouraged to join Dataversity Public Discussion, to build their engagement with local government terrestrial and freshwater biodata managers. Curators of the national biodiversity databases. http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/nationaldatabases/ Representatives of groups that are related to Dataversity. http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/relatedgroups/ People from environmental consultancies. Biodiversity policy people in local and central government. People involved in local government data management in areas other than terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity, such as marine biodiversity, biosecurity, hydrology, GIS, and local government administration systems. Despite its wide membership, Dataversity Public Discussion is not intended for sector-wide conversations about biodata management. Its focus is local government terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity management. People can join Dataversity Public Discussion by visiting its home page, http://dataversity.org.nz/groups/dataversity_public_discuss and clicking the "sign up and join" link. Please join the new group, and forward this invitation to anyone you know who is interested in local government biodata management.
cheers, Dan -- Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator and Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org skype: vonrandow [1] Participation stats for Dataversity Private Discussion http://dataversity.org.nz/groups/dataversity_private_discussion/stats.html
The June 2008 TFBIS Newsletter is available. http://www.biodiversity.govt.nz/pdfs/tfbis-newsletter-2.pdf It announces the opening of a new funding round, introduces some TFBIS personnel and reports on various TFBIS projects, including Dataversity.
cheers Dan -- Dan Randow Dataversity Faciltitator http://dataversity.org.nz and Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org skype: vonrandow
The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) is inviting dialogue about environmental data management in New Zealand. The first stage of this is a video-conference for providers and users of environmental data, to be held on Tuesday 10th June. Dataversity members and others are invited to participate in this discussion. Details are below.
cheers, Dan -- Dan Randow Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org skype: vonrandow . . . MoRST Dialogue about Environmental Data Management -------------------------------------------------- A recently prepared Environment Sector Data Management Vision and Action Plan will be used as a starting point for the conversation. The discussion aims to address the following questions. 1. What are the main areas where management of environmental data (ie collection, recording, storage, curation, cataloguing, transfer and sharing) acts as a barrier to resource managers using science in their environmental management work? 2. What solutions to these problems would the environment data management community most like to see? The discussion will not cover technical issues of infrastructure for data-sharing; this will be addressed once we have some idea of the answers to the above two questions. Instead MoRST wants to identify the improvements in environmental data management that would make the biggest difference to resource managers' engagement with science, and to the connections between users and providers of environmental science. The discussion will take place on Tuesday 10th June, from 9.30-11.30, via video-conference. At this stage, facilities to access the video-conference are confirmed in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Palmerston North. There is some scope to provide access from other locations. Please contact Isabella Cawthorn at MoRST <email obscured> or 04 917 3066), if you would like to be involved.
Dataversity is the TFBIS-funded project to form a community of practice of biodata managers in NZ councils. The project was funded in June 2007. Here is a brief update on progress so far, and the next steps for the project. Below is a link to a more detailed report. My first step in this project was to meet with as many biodata managers as I could, to let them know about the project and get their feedback. As I expected, most people could see the need for knowledge-sharing about biodata management, and were keen to participate in conversations. I saw several examples of successful biodata systems, but also heard many tales of struggles to manage data without good systems. The biodata managers I spoke with wanted to know what each other are doing. They wanted to share information about their successes and problems, both with in-house systems and with national databases. They also wanted to ensure that strong links were made between this project and related groups. I could see that the need to start facilitating conversations was urgent. It seems there is a real opportunity to match biodata management problems with existing solutions. I therefore picked a name for the project, and set up a website, and opened two online groups. The first is the "announcement" that I am sending this update to. The second is a private discussion forum, restricted to core Dataversity members, ie people who are hands-on managers of biodiversity data. With the help of Tamsin Braisher, I contacted as many people as possible to invite them to join one or these online groups, and to have input into the project. At this stage, we have 36 biodata managers in the private discussion group. I also started collecting success stories, and descriptions of required systems, and compiling them in the Showcase http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/showcase and Want Ads on the website. http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/wantads With invaluable assistance from Tamsin, the website now has a comprehensive list of National Databases http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/nationaldatabases/ and Related Groups. http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/relatedgroups/ There's also a full description of the project on the website. http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/dataversity/ In 2008, the plan is to increase the membership of Dataversity so that we have one person from every NZ Council in the announcement group at least. We'll be facilitating conversations in the private discussion group, and adding Showcase items and Want Ads. We will continue to build links with the curators of national databases, and with related groups. At some stage we will hold a face to face workshop, hopefully in conjunction with an existing biodiversity-related gathering. I also aim to have a steering team formed by November 2008. The main goal, however, is to achieve some actual success with solving biodata management problems for councils in NZ. Here's how you can help. December 2007: Spread the word. If you know people who should know about this, please forward this email to them. January 2008: Participate in the conversations. If you are in the private discussion group, add your intro, reply to some of the topics that are already in progress, or start one of your own. Whether you are in that group or not, check the content on the website, and give us feedback. If you have met her face to face, you'll know that Tamsin is expecting a baby early in 2008. For that reason, we're not sure what involvement Tamsin will have in Dataversity in future. Tamsin, Dataversity is already one baby you've helped to bring into the world. A big thanks to you, for your contribution. with Season's Greetings to all, Dan . . . Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator http://dataversity.org.nz/resources/contacts/ and Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org skype: vonrandow
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The Digital Strategy is now two years old and is undergoing a review, to be completed in mid 2008. http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/templates/Page____1060.aspx This process includes the following initiatives. "Digital Future Summit 2.0", a conference in Auckland on 28 and 29 November 2007. http://www.digitalsummit.org.nz Discussion Forums. http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/templates/IFrame____1010.aspx The "Digital Future" Blog. http://www.digitalfutureblog.org.nz/ Public consultation including a submission process, and workshops with Environment/Conservation sector representatives. (Dataversity members: some Dataversity members have been invited to participate, so ask about this in Dataversity Private Discussion.) http://dataversity.org.nz/groups/dataversity_private_discussion
Dan -- Dan Randow Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://sociocorpus.net skype: vonrandow
TFBIS has published the first of what will be a six monthly newsletter from the TFBIS Programme. http://biodiversity.govt.nz/pdfs/tifbis-newsletter.pdf TFBIS, the Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System Programme, administers the fund that supports Dataversity. The newsletter explains what TFBIS is about, lists the projects funded in the last funding round, and highlights some completed projects. It also announces the release of the TFBIS Strategy document. http://biodiversity.govt.nz/pdfs/Final-strategy-doc.pdf The strategy explains the context for the Goal 5. People involved in biodiversity research, policy and management know each other, coordinate their efforts, and share their knowledge and Action Areas that Dataversity contributes to. 5.1 Support meetings and workshops 5.2 Support the implementation of processes and technologies to improve interagency dialogue Dan Randow Dataversity Facilitator
This is an online announcement group for keeping people informed about the project to establish a community of practice of NZ local government biodiversity data managers. This project has the interim name of Dataversity. You can join this group on its home page. http://dataversity.onlinegroups.net/groups/dataversity_public_announcement When you join, you will receive announcements about progress with the project by email, from time to time. Dan Randow Project Facilitator and Projects Director OnlineGroups.Net ph +64-3-377-5377 +64-27-431-4928 Kenton Chmbrs, 190 Hereford St PO Box 739, Christchurch, 8140 Aotearoa (New Zealand) http://onlinegroups.net http://groupserver.org http://sociocorpus.net skype: vonrandow
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