Dataset Invitations

This page is the working forum for Molly and Joanna to manage their project to send out invitations to collections to provide their data to iDigBio. (2015-01-16)

References

• Collections/Address list: We are working off of this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RRNX7rWzGBUCtEjgTN9ItXdPPo5GMxP5ZTVRfgL5cyo/edit?usp=sharing
• Qualtrics survey: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cUt60kZeTOtTki1
• Ingestion Guidance: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Ingestion_Guidance

Places to look in order to establish if we have (or will be getting) a collection’s data:

• Portal Publishers page: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/publishers Make sure to do a search for the name and the acronym.
• Data ingestion queue: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Ingestion_Report
• Data already ingested: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Ingestion_Report#Additional_Statistics_at_Various_Stages_of_Ingestion
• Collaborators Map: https://www.idigbio.org/content/collaborating-institutions
• VertNet IPT: http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/
• VertNet’s data ingestion queue: https://fusiontables.googleusercontent.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=CARD&q=select+*+from+18Dra_0tr4CBeV1WWTL-s3RN3sPKTeXsRP4bA_Eo+where+col11+in+(%27A%27,+%27P%27)+and+col2+%3D+%27USA%27+order+by+col0+asc&tmplt=7&cpr=4

Places to look for contact information for Collections

• Institutional websites
• Index herbariorum: http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp
• GBIF: http://www.gbif.org/publisher/search

Check in the following portals:

The Symbiota nodes: (collections here are manually added to Dan's ingestor)

• http://intermountainbiota.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
• http://ngpherbaria.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
• http://nansh.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
• http://sernecportal.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
• http://www.madrean.org/symbflora/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
• http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
• http://www.pnwherbaria.org/herbaria.php (not strictly a Symbiota portal for ingestion)

The TCN Symbiota nodes: (collections here are automatically picked up by Dan's ingestor)

• http://neherbaria.org
• http://macroalgae.org/portal/index.php
• http://bryophyteportal.org/portal/
• http://lichenportal.org/portal/
• http://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php

These Symbiota websites are all of a type - interface schema: from the main page, for example http://intermountainbiota.org/portal/index.php

Go to Site Map-> Darwin Core archives: http://intermountainbiota.org/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

Search Collections on the lefthand nav bar: http://intermountainbiota.org/portalcollections/index.php?catid=1

Symbiota Help: http://symbiota.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Data+Nodes

We are working by region:
We finished by the end of March
Midwest: JM DONE
West: JM DONE
Alaska & Hawaii: JM DONE
South: MP DONE
Northeast: JM DONE