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A suggestion that we set up some opportunities at Digital Data IV to move forward. Ideas

• Carpentries invited to talk (Plenary)
• Moving the Carpentries into the Museums (Smithsonian as a model)
• Carpentries workshop (one or two-day)
• Curriculum brain-storm (whinge-fest)
• Seeking funding to develop an NHC-specific set of Biodiversity Data lessons that suit the collections data pipeline.

Please comment on this issue to demonstrate the breadth and depth of curricular-related activities ongoing in your own institution or in others that you're aware of.

For example, Town Peterson's Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum

Or a list of courses from your home institution (e.g. Indiana University, two different departments)

IU, Department of Information and Library Science
ILS-Z 503 Representation & Organization
ILS-Z 511 Database Design
ILS-Z 515 Information Architecture
ILS-Z 542 International Information Issues
ILS-Z 581 Archives & Records Management
ILS-Z 636 Data Semantics
ILS-Z 642 Content Analysis for the Web
ILS-Z 645 Social Informatics of Big Data

The "how you can contribute" section of the README currently only has boilerplate text:

Depending on where group interaction takes place (GitHub, mailing list), provide some guidance on how interested parties can follow group activities (e.g. watch this repository, join mailing list) and how they can contribute.

Please update this to how people can actually contribute.

The Rationale (currently copied from the charter) is quite long too...

There has been efforts based on funding by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, the support of the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and the GBIF community tackling the gap of training materials in the field of biodiversity informatics. This has been partially published at https://journals.ku.edu.
Can I assume this aims to be a collaborative effort between TDWG, GBIF, KBI, JSR? Does this activity connect to the GBIF interest group on biodiversity informatics training?

Creating this thread to allow for discussion of plans and ideas and as a place for feedback as we prepare for the upcoming workshop. Please comment with any relevant resources or information that should be shared with workshop participants or with any thoughts about important things to cover that may not be in the schedule as it is now.

What skills are most needed for new biodiversity informaticians that are entering the workforce?

For example: deep learning and computer vision for applied systematics and taxonomy, semantic linkages between related datasets, information architecture and quality assurance, data curation and using OpenRefine.