scholarly journals A Proposed Metadata Standard for Recording and Sharing Attribution Information in Biodiversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Thessen ◽  
David Shorthouse ◽  
Deborah Paul ◽  
Michael Conlon ◽  
Matt Woodburn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
Darwin Core ◽  
Future Data ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Data Exchange Standard

Research collections are an important tool for understanding the Earth, its systems, and human interaction. Despite the importance of collections, many are not maintained or curated as thoroughly as we would like. Part of the reason for this is the lack of professional reward for collection, curation, or maintenance. To address this gap in attribution metadata, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization co-endorsed a Working Group to create recommendations for the representation of attribution metadata. After 18 months, this Working Group recommended a very simple data exchange standard to link people, the curatorial actions they perform, and the digital or physical objects they are curating. These recommendations are discussed in the context of community-developed use cases. Future work includes: exploration of a Darwin Core extension, best practices on how to best adopt these recommendations, and possible solutions to help accelerate the process of connecting people and their activities in legacy and future data. exploration of a Darwin Core extension, best practices on how to best adopt these recommendations, and possible solutions to help accelerate the process of connecting people and their activities in legacy and future data. To explore options for making collections work more visible and citable, we tested the use of digital annotation tools and person identifiers in curation workflows. The results from this pilot project in collaboration with ORCID and Data Futures to display specimens on an ORCID profile will be presented.

WaterML2.0: development of an open standard for hydrological time-series data exchange

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Taylor ◽  
S. Cox ◽  
G. Walker ◽  
D. Valentine ◽  
P. Sheahan
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Open Standard ◽  
Terrestrial Water ◽  
Future Work

The increasing global demand on freshwater is resulting in nations improving their terrestrial water monitoring and reporting systems to better understand the availability, and quality, of this valuable resource. A barrier to this is the inability for stakeholders to share information relating to water observations data: traditional hydrological information systems have relied on internal custom data formats to exchange data, leading to issues in data integration and exchange. Organisations are looking to information standards to assist in data exchange, integration and interpretation to lower costs in use, and re-use, of monitoring data. The WaterML2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG), working within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and in cooperation with the joint OGC-World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Hydrology Domain Working Group (HDWG), has developed an open standard for the exchange of water observation data. The focus of the standard is time-series data, commonly used for hydrological applications such as flood forecasting, environmental reporting and hydrological infrastructure, where a lack of standards inhibits efficient re-use and automation. This paper describes the development methodology and principles of WaterML2.0, key parts of its information model, implementation scenarios, evaluation and future work. WaterML2.0 was adopted by the OGC as an official standard in September 2012.

scholarly journals Maturity assessment of Kenya’s health information system interoperability readiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. e100241
Author(s):  
Job Nyangena ◽  
Rohini Rajgopal ◽  
Elizabeth Adhiambo Ombech ◽  
Enock Oloo ◽  
Humphrey Luchetu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Health Information Exchange ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Technical Standards

BackgroundThe use of digital technology in healthcare promises to improve quality of care and reduce costs over time. This promise will be difficult to attain without interoperability: facilitating seamless health information exchange between the deployed digital health information systems (HIS).ObjectiveTo determine the maturity readiness of the interoperability capacity of Kenya’s HIS.MethodsWe used the HIS Interoperability Maturity Toolkit, developed by MEASURE Evaluation and the Health Data Collaborative’s Digital Health and Interoperability Working Group. The assessment was undertaken by eHealth stakeholder representatives primarily from the Ministry of Health’s Digital Health Technical Working Group. The toolkit focused on three major domains: leadership and governance, human resources and technology.ResultsMost domains are at the lowest two levels of maturity: nascent or emerging. At the nascent level, HIS activities happen by chance or represent isolated, ad hoc efforts. An emerging maturity level characterises a system with defined HIS processes and structures. However, such processes are not systematically documented and lack ongoing monitoring mechanisms.ConclusionNone of the domains had a maturity level greater than level 2 (emerging). The subdomains of governance structures for HIS, defined national enterprise architecture for HIS, defined technical standards for data exchange, nationwide communication network infrastructure, and capacity for operations and maintenance of hardware attained higher maturity levels. These findings are similar to those from interoperability maturity assessments done in Ghana and Uganda.

Guidelines for teleradiology practice: Results of the Tyrolean teleradiology pilot project

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 48-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Soegner ◽  
Th Rettenbacher ◽  
A Smekal ◽  
D Zur Nedden
Keyword(s):  
Data Security ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
District Hospital ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Global View ◽  
Continuous Quality Assurance ◽  
The University

summary The Tyrolean telemedicine pilot project linked the University Clinic of Innsbruck and the district hospital in Reutte. Five medical specialties were investigated: teleradiology, telepathology, teledermatology, tele-ophthalmology and tele-oncology. A Tyrolean ‘four-column model of quality management in telemedicine’ was introduced to ensure a global view of the project and to avoid mistakes. In teleradiology, a 12-step workflow was developed, which described the medical responsibilities at each stage. We found that the defined teleradiology workflow and the technical equipment for data security and data exchange worked without problems in over 79% of a total of 424 cases. To ensure continuous quality assurance, the whole teleradiology workflow was ISO 9001:2000 certified.

Benchmarking industrial engineering programs

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1194-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Tuan Nguyen ◽  
Nguyen Vang-Phuc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Resource Selection ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Future Work

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the best practices of industrial engineering (IE) programs that could be learnt and used at other educational institutions. Design/methodology/approach Nine IE programs in the USA are benchmarked using a conceptual framework that considers an educational program as a system consisting of a purpose, a curriculum, resources, and quality processes. The information used in benchmarking is collected from the program self-study reports, course catalogs, and websites which are available on the internet. Findings It is found that in spite of their diversity in history, missions, sizes, and reputations, the studied programs are rather unified in terms of purpose definition, curriculum formation, resource selection, and quality process usage. From the analysis, a template of IE curriculum is proposed. Research limitations/implications As the selection of the studied programs is based on the availability of the information, the findings may not be representative for IE programs in the USA. Future work can aim at comparing IE programs from various countries. Practical implications The findings could be used as benchmarks by IE schools interested in the improvement of operations. Originality/value A conceptual framework for benchmarking is proposed and proves useful for comparing educational programs. The findings represent the current best practices at IE schools in the USA.

scholarly journals Best practices for connecting genetic records with specimen data

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26369
Author(s):  
Michael Trizna
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Good News ◽  
Sequencing Technology ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
A Value ◽  
Darwin Core ◽  
High Quality Sequence ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
Tight Connection ◽  
Biodiversity Information

As rapid advances in sequencing technology result in more branches of the tree of life being illuminated, there has actually been a decrease in the percentage of sequence records that are backed by voucher specimens Trizna 2018b. The good news is that there are tools Trizna (2017), NCBI (2005), Biocode LLC (2014) to enable well-databased museum vouchers to automatically validate and format specimen and collection metadata for high quality sequence records. Another problem is that there are millions of existing sequence records that are known to contain either incorrect or incomplete specimen data. I will show an end-to-end example of sequencing specimens from a museum, depositing their sequence records in NCBI's (National Center for Biotechnology Information) GenBank database, and then providing updates to GenBank as the museum database revises identifications. I will also talk about linking records from specimen databases as well. Over one million records in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Trizna (2018a) contain a value in the Darwin Core term "associatedSequences", and I will examine what is currently contained in these entries, and how best to format them to ensure that a tight connection is made to sequence records.

Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind in the Revised Edition of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
Sergey Sayapin
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
International Law ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The Republic

The Criminal Code of Uzbekistan, which was adopted in 1994 and entered into force in 1995, was the country’s first post-Soviet Criminal Code. In 2018, the President of Uzbekistan called for adoption of a revised edition of the Criminal Code whose provisions should correspond more closely to international law, and would be more appropriately suited to modern realities. The article offers an overview of the draft Chapter on crimes against the peace and security of mankind, as proposed by the author in his capacity as a member of the Working Group for revision of the Criminal Code. It draws upon the best practices of a number of States, and offers a concise article-by-article commentary on the draft Chapter.

scholarly journals Best Practices for Conducting Observational Research to Assess the Relation between Nutrition and Bone: An International Working Group Summary

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regan L Bailey ◽  
Shivani Sahni ◽  
Patricia Chocano-Bedoya ◽  
Robin M Daly ◽  
Ailsa A Welch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
International Working Group
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