[Esip-biodata] Marine Life Data Workshop for June 10th at 1pm (Electronically-tracked animal movement data standardization to Darwin Core)

Tue Jun 10 09:46:53 EDT 2025

Friendly reminder that we're on for 1pm ET TODAY. See connection
information below, or in this announcement
<https://github.com/ioos/marine_life_data_network/discussions/145>.

Hope to see you there.

Matt

On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal <
mathew.biddle at noaa.gov> wrote:

> FYI, this is open to all. See the announcement below and in this GitHub
> discussion
> <https://github.com/ioos/marine_life_data_network/discussions/145>.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal <mathew.biddle at noaa.gov>
> Date: Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
> Subject: Marine Life Data Workshop for June 10th at 1pm
> (Electronically-tracked animal movement data standardization to Darwin Core)
>
> Hi MBON DMAC'ers!
>
> This is a friendly reminder that next week we will be hosting the third of
> our data standardization workshops. This is a pivot from our planned
> workshop agenda
> <https://ioos.github.io/mbon_data_workshop_2025/index.html#schedule> into
> monthly, 2-hour sessions where we will focus on one specific observing
> method (eg. eDNA, passive acoustic monitoring, plankton imagery, animal
> tracking, etc.) and the process by which those data can be standardized to
> Darwin Core and shared to OBIS/GBIF.
>
> Our third "data session" will be held on *June 10th from 1pm ET - 3pm ET*.
> The topic will be "E*lectronically-tracked animal movement
> data DarwinCore alignment data workshop*" and will be hosted by Jonathan
> Pye, Director, Data Operations OTN. Below is the connection information if
> you would like to attend. Below is an overview of the session.
>
> Since 2008, the Ocean Tracking Network has been curating and coordinating
> the sharing and publication of animal movement data, especially
> observations made with acoustic pinger tags attached to individuals and
> listening stations able to decode the unique signals from these
> intercompatible tags. Researchers have long benefitted from tracking their
> individuals across a global observatory of volunteer data providers as well
> as the OTN’s strategically placed backbone listening arrays. OTN, working
> in conjunction with ETN, IMOS and the US-IOOS ATN, has established a global
> standard for representing this data type in OBIS, and as the thematic OBIS
> node for animal movement data, has been responsible for registering nearly
> 5 million animal presence records since 2002.
>
>  OTN empowers regional networks of researchers to build replicate
> databases and pipelines for electronically-tracked animal movement data,
> providing open-source tools and source-controlled data workflows that
> receive, QC, and integrate new data into a regional data system, or Node,
> that not only combines direct contributor data, but interoperates with all
> other Nodes worldwide. These Nodes are capable of following a data export
> pipeline to produce a Darwin Core Archive summarizing any one project’s
> data holdings, in a manner fit for publication to OBIS via OTN in its role
> as an OBIS network, or through any appropriate national or regional OBIS
> network. Jon Pye, OBIS data manager and architect of the Node systems, will
> guide us through the standard, the data workflow that OTN and its Nodes can
> follow to publish Darwin Core Archives, and the future of publishing
> electronically tagged animal presence data and the ocean variables that are
> collected alongside those efforts.
>
> https://oceantrackingnetwork.org/about-data-centre/
>
>
> The meeting is open to others who might have an interest as well.
>
> MBON DMAC working group
> Tuesday, June 10 · 1:00 – 2:50pm
> Time zone: America/New_York
> Google Meet joining info
> Video call link: https://meet.google.com/imf-qrhy-jgx
> Or dial: ‪(US) +1 321-351-6755‬ PIN: ‪548 540 777‬#
> More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/imf-qrhy-jgx?pin=2704290817714
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt & Laura
>
> P.S. You can follow our workshop announcements by following the Marine
> Life Data Network DataWorkshop discussions at this link
> <https://github.com/ioos/marine_life_data_network/discussions/categories/dataworkshop>
> .
>
> --
> Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
> NOAA/NOS
> US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office
> 1315 East-West Highway
> Silver Spring MD 20910
> 240-533-9470
>
> ORCiD: 0000-0003-4897-1669 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4897-1669>
> http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/
>
>
> --
> Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
> NOAA/NOS
> US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office
> 1315 East-West Highway
> Silver Spring MD 20910
> 240-533-9470
>
> ORCiD: 0000-0003-4897-1669 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4897-1669>
> http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/
>

-- 
Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
NOAA/NOS
US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring MD 20910
240-533-9470

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4897-1669 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4897-1669>
http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/
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