OBIS Grand Unified Data Model Project Team (GUMPT)

Terms of Reference:
The project team will explore early adoption and testing of the new data model to assess how well it works for OBIS community data, noting and sharing back to the data model team any problems encountered, suggestions for improvements, and feasibility of uptake.
Tasks:
1. Select between one to five use cases that most clearly align with OBIS community data and that the project team has datasets ready to test for the use case.
a. identify datasets not covered yet by any of the use cases and feedback to GBIF
2. Apply the data model to the selected datasets.
3. Document issues, suggestions, and feasibility for each use case.
4. Report these to SG-OBIS and the data model project team.
5. Explore the feasibility of using frictionless data packages instead of Darwin Core Archives.
6. Assess impact to OBIS data sysem including amount of work necessary, funding required, sources for funding if required, and recommendation on adoption.

Member Role Country
Ward Appeltans
UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Belgium
Martha Vides Casado
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andreis
Colombia
Abby Benson
U.S. Geological Survey HQ
Project Team Chair United States of America
Pieter Provoost
UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Belgium
John Nicholls
Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Environmental Humanities
Ireland
Yi Ming Gan
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
Project Team Co-Chair Belgium
Katherine Tattersall
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure
Australia
Ruben Perez Perez
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Belgium
Saara Suominen
UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Belgium
Maria Cornthwaite
Pacific Biological Station (DFO – PBS), Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Canada
Sachit Rajbhandari
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure
Australia
Elizabeth Lawrence
UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Belgium
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