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Introduction to VoMaG Outcomes of the TDWG Vocabulary Management Task Group TDWG 2013 Annual Conference, Florence, Italy. Éamonn Ó Tuama Senior Programme Officer for Interoperability Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 31 October 2013. VoMaG history.
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Introduction to VoMaG Outcomes of the TDWG Vocabulary Management Task Group TDWG 2013 Annual Conference, Florence, Italy Éamonn Ó Tuama Senior ProgrammeOfficer for Interoperability Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 31 October 2013
VoMaG history Established as task group under TDWG TAG, November 2012 Grew from ViBRANT work package 4 Initial conveners: Dag Endresen and Éamonn Ó Tuama Co-opted Steve Baskauf (RDF/OWL Task Group) and Gregor Hagedorn (Semantic MediaWiki)
VoMaG process 49 members VoMaG communication platform on GBIF Community Site http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/ VoMaG Charter outlines strategy and goals http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/28812/ VoMaG report http://www.gbif.org/resources/2246
VoMaG report Initial development on VoMaG Site Two rounds of review (within group and public) VoMaG report delivered to TDWG on Sept 20th Two related sessions at TDWG organised
VoMaG report Three main sections Status of the TDWG ontology Semantic MediaWiki as a development platform Requirements for a framework for managing vocabularies