While all SFG efforts are architected to stand alone our products benefit greatly from internal integration, for example TaxonWorks uses GlobaNames to process and extract nomenclature, CoL is fed data curated and exported from TaxonWorks and GlobalNames indexes CoL for verification and indexing. This integration extends beyond our core products to those around the world. Our efforts strengthen the Catalogue of Life on multiple fronts. iNaturalist uses our APIs to provide authoritative nomenclature for 10s of thousands species observed, photographed, and loaded to their site. GBIF now contains over 1 million collection object records curated in TaxonWorks.
-Socio-technicaly our efforts are highlighted throughout the discussions, both broad and targeted at TaxonWorks Together, an annual event attracting well over 200 registrants (please join and contribute). On a unending week-to-week basis our weekly support sessions, while focused on SFG core efforts, routinely evolve into discussion of broader topics and needs. These communications, and those on numerous other fronts complement our broader impacts.
+Socio-technicaly our efforts are highlighted throughout the discussions, both broad and targeted at TaxonWorks Together, an annual event attracting well over 250 registrants (please join and contribute). On a unending week-to-week basis our weekly support sessions, while focused on SFG core efforts, routinely evolve into discussion of broader topics and needs. These communications, and those on numerous other fronts complement our broader impacts.
Stepping back our efforts exemplify solutions to broader challenges, and as such represent a broad interface for new and unexplored collaborations. Throughout these efforts we endeavour to produce open-source tools usable in a wide range of contexts, beyond their primary use cases. Our efforts represent cutting-edge examples of data-processing at scale, facilitating global data aggregation (including the socio-technical challenges), data standards and semantics, human-computer interactions and the emerging concepts behind Research Software Engineering. Collectively our ability to link real-world data to testable processes pre-adapts us to collaborations in may fields including data visualization, AI training, network-analysis, environmental modelling and more. Please reach out if interested.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@SFG-Announce is a low traffic (1-2/week) email list. It's primary use is to send out reminders of our Community Consults, information on TaxonWorks Together, and to provide notices of critical disruptions of SFG resources. +
SFG-Announce is a low traffic (1-2/week) email list. Its primary use is to send out reminders of our Community Consults, information on TaxonWorks Together, and to provide notices of critical disruptions of SFG resources.
- Note that every other week we have 2 sessions. If a months has a fifth Wednesday then we take that day off. + Note that every other week we have 2 sessions. If a month has a fifth Wednesday then we take that day off.
The structure of our Community Consults have evolved. Past minutes are here: