Hello everyone and welcome to Darwin Core Hour! My name is [name] and I am with [affiliation]. I’d like to start with a few logistics before I introduce this webinar series and our speakers for the day.
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Okay, now that those logistical notes are out of the way, I'd like to briefly introduce the Darwin Core Hour webinar series. One of our main goals in putting this series together is to encourage more integrated and direct collaborations between the biodiversity data and collections community together with the standards and software communities. To that extent, we have a google form where anyone–including you–can ask a question about the Darwin Core standard. You can get to this form from the link on the slide, which is also available (and clickable) in the shared Google Doc notes.
Questions asked via that form are sent to the Darwin Core Hour github repository, where we do our best to answer them. These questions and answers feed into creating better documentation for the DwC standard.
If you want to see what questions have already been asked and answered, you can do so by looking at the issues in our GitHub repo. Again, this link is also available in the shared Google Doc notes.
The wiki on this GitHub repository contains some of the improved documentation, for example, this page on georeferencing terms in Darwin Core.
If you would like to see more about how to use the Darwin Core Questions and Answers site, Paula Zermoglio has put together a brief video tutorial, which is available on the landing page of the GitHub repository. Again, see the shared Google Doc for a link.
Alright, well without further ado, I would like to introduce the [edition #] of the Darwin Core Hour webinar series: [title]. Here to present we have [presenter/s] from [affilitation]. I will turn the screen over to them now.
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