MIDS Task Group (Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen)
This is the repository for the MIDS Task Group, dealing with Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen.
This README last updated: 03 November 2020.
About the group
The MIDS Task Group is a task group to develop a standard for Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS). The TG is chartered by its parent Collection Descriptions Interest Group. For full details of the TG and its scope, read the charter.
The day-to-day operations of the Task Group is documented in this repository. You can also track and participate in the work of the group by watching this repository and monitoring the group's issues tracker.
The new MIDS standard will be complementary to the Collection Descriptions standard that is also under the responsibility of the Collection Descriptions Interest Group.
How to become involved and contribute
This Task Group welcomes anyone who has a practical interest in minimum information standards, Digital Specimen information, experience with digitization processes and workflows and the subsequent management (including making public) of the outputs of digitization, including reporting requirements for management and funding agencies.
Become involved and contribute by:
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Contacting the Conveners.
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Watching this github repository. Submitting or commenting on an issue.
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Using and evaluating the the specification as it emerges and providing feedback e.g., by submitting an issue or suggesting a new need.
Members
Conveners
| Name | Affiliation | github name or Email |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Hardisty | Cardiff University | @hardistyar |
| Elspeth Haston | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | @emhaston |
Core Members
| Name | Affiliation | github name or Email |
|---|---|---|
| Wouter Addink | Naturalis Biodiversity Center | @wouteraddink |
| Mathias Dillen | Meise Botanic Garden | @matdillen |
| Falko Glöckler | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) | falko.gloeckler AT mfn.berlin |
| Quentin Groom | Meise Botanic Garden | @qgroom |
| Anton Güntsch | Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin | a.guentsch AT bgbm.org |
| Josh Humphries | Natural History Museum, London | j.humphries AT nhm.ac.uk |
| Chris Hunter | GigaDB, BGI Group | chris AT gigasciencejournal.com> |
| Gunnhild Marthinsen | University of Oslo Natural History Museum | g.m.marthinsen AT nhm.uio.no |
| Deborah Paul | Florida State University / iDigBio | @debpaul |
| Mareike Petersen | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) | mareike.petersen AT mfn.berlin |
| Richard Rabeler | University of Michigan Herbarium | rabeler AT umich.edu |
| Eirik Rindal | University of Oslo Natural History Museum | eirik.rindal AT nhm.uio.no |
| Hannu Saarenmaa | Bioshare Digitization | hannu AT bioshare.com |
| Lutz Suhrbier | Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin | l.suhrbier AT bgbm.org |
| Rachel Walcott | National Museums Scotland | r.walcott AT nms.ac.uk |
Repo structure
The master branch contains this README.md file and the released public version of the MIDS specification. As of 03 November 2020, work is still in progress and there is not yet a released Version 1.0 of the specification.
The working-draft branch contains the current working draft in the current-draft folder. Older drafts are moved to the old-drafts folder as they are superseded. The use-cases folder contains the use cases on which the current working draft is based.
To be completed.
TG Way of working
To be completed.
Resources
Current draft of the specification
MIDS-definition-v0.12-03Nov2020.md
Cite as: Hardisty, A., Addink, W., Dillen, M., Groom, Q., Haston, E., et al. (Draft) Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS) v0.12, 03 November 2020.
Other resources
Borsch, T., Stevens, A.-D., Häffner, E., Güntsch, A., Berendsohn, W.G., et al. (2020): A complete digitization of German herbaria is possible, sensible and should be started now. Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: e50675. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e50675.
MISC 2012. iDigBio MISC Data Element Catalog (Phase 1, V0, rev. 15 December 2012). https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/c/c9/Phase_I_Report.pdf.
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