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Siobhan Leachman

@siobhanleachman.bsky.social

Wikimedian, citizen scientist, digital curator, volunteer, nature nerd, wine geek, partner & mum. She/her. Inordinately fond of linked open data, moths & weevils. Other contact links see my ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-7721

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Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join our Communications Director at #TDWG2026 as she shares the story of BHL's transition to independence thus far, and what it might still take to get to the other side. 🧪 🌏 🌱

Nicole Kearney@nicolekearney.bsky.social · 2w ago

It is an honour to be delivering a mini-keynote at #TDWG2026 tomorrow (2pm CEST) in this incredibly significant year for @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. BHL is on an uncertain and precarious journey. Last year, we were thrown into the wilderness, and we have had to find our own path out... @tdwg.org

GBIF@gbif.org · 2w ago

⭐ Kicking off the week at #TDWG2026 in Oslo! Today you can catch a presentation by members from the Secretariat's Engineering team on the progress toward integrating the new Darwin Core Data Package standard into GBIF infrastructure. 📍 14:45, Aula UiO @tdwg.org

Green and white calendar stating the time, place and talk being presented at TDWG on Monday 21 September
Natural History Museum, London@nhm-london.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dorothea Bate has been honoured with a Historic England blue plaque at the Natural History Museum in Tring! 🌟 Dorothea had no formal qualifications when she walked into the Museum in 1898 looking for a job. She went on to become a renowned palaeontologist, known for her fossil mammal discoveries.

Photograph of Dorothea Bate in profile facing left, showing short, wavy hair styled close to the head. The black-and-white portrait has a vintage appearance, likely from the early to mid-20th century.
BISS (Biodiversity Information Science and Standards) journal@biss.pensoft.net · 3w ago

📜 Call for Extended Abstracts for #TDWG2026 is now open! Turn your accepted talk/poster into a free, open-access, DOI-citable paper in BISS. 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟗 𝐎𝐜𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. More details👉 biss.pensoft.net/news/1474 #TDWG2026 #OpenAccess @tdwg.org

Call for Extended Abstracts Now Open for TDWG 2026 

TDWG is pleased to announce that the call for extended abstracts (mini-papers) for TDWG2026 is now open, with accepted submissions to be published in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BI...

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Dave Palfrey@01factory.bsky.social · 4w ago

A thought on databases vs narratives. Narratives are designed to be consumed in a particular sequence. This aligns circumstances of production & consumption: the writer is 'first reader' (Lyotard). Such alignment is an edge case for DBs, where write/read queries often group elements very differently

@tdwg.org · 2mo ago

🗓️ Save the date 📝! 🎉 Something great is happening in 2027: 5 Networks, more than 800 participants, 1 place over 1 week. Living Data 2027: From Living Data to Ecological Intelligence See you in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 from 9 to 12 June 2027 #LivingData2027 by: #TDWG #GEO_BON #SPNHC #iBOL #QCBS

Save the date, Living Data 2027 from 9 to 12 June 2027. Montreal, Canada Image © Eva Blue - Tourisme Montréal