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.
