Peter Desmet

@peterdesmet
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Biodiversity informatician at INBO. Passionate about open data and open science. I develop research software, maintain data standards and publish datasets, mostly for animal movement research πŸ“‘πŸ¦/πŸ›°πŸ¦/πŸ”ŠπŸŸ/πŸ“ΈπŸ—. He/him
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
GitHubhttps://github.com/peterdesmet

Curious *how* we developed Camtrap DP, a model and format for exchanging camera trap data? The slides for my #tdwg2023 talk are available at https://bit.ly/camtrap-dp-tdwg-2023.

So many interesting camera trap conversations and use cases here in Hobart with @dhobern and others at @tdwg!

How we developed a data exchange format: Lessons learned from Camtrap DP

Talk at the TDWG 2023 annual conference - October 13, 2023. Abstract: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111425

Speaker Deck

Slides for my #tdwg2023 talk about B-Cubed are available at https://bit.ly/tdwg-2023-b-cubed.

Got some great feedback already, people are cleary excited about assigning @gbif occurrence data to spatial grids and making it more analysis-ready. Interested? We have a #hackathon coming up in April next year!

B-Cubed: Leveraging analysis-ready biodiversity datasets and cloud computing for timely and actionable biodiversity monitoring

Talk at the TDWG 2023 annual conference - October 10, 2023. Abstract: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110734

Speaker Deck

We've released a new technical document for community review! πŸŽ‰

Share input and feedback on the guidelines outlined in Best Practices for Managing and Publishing Camera Trap Data by Lien Reyserhove, Ben Norton & @peterdesmet, now through Tuesday, 31 October.

Learn more, learn how:
https://www.gbif.org/news/1tNrbZGtOLUw2rdUKsM8Se/

Guide to publishing camera trap data opens for peer review

Deadline for community input and feedback: **Tuesday, 31 October 2023**

✨ Version 3 of my Jekyll theme Petridish is out! ✨

Updates include background photo attribution, custom navigation, Mastodon socials, better previews when linking in Mastodon/Twitter, etc.

See full changelog at https://github.com/peterdesmet/petridish/releases/tag/3.0

Petridish is used by https://tdwg.org, https://globam.science, https://echinopscis.github.io and others!

Release Version 3.0 Β· peterdesmet/petridish

Blog posts Breaking! Posts now use tags instead of categories. Use tags: [tag 1, tag 2] in post front matter. You can credit the creator of background images by using background.by: name, backgrou...

GitHub

The @tdwg website has a ✨new layout✨! https://www.tdwg.org

It also has better navigation, was reviewed for consistency and formatting, and makes use of Jekyll and my Petridish theme. Biggest pull request I've ever made πŸ˜… https://github.com/tdwg/website/pull/479

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)

We are a non-profit organization and a community dedicated to developing biodiversity information standards.

Wonderful blog post and recommended reading for everyone interested in scholarly publishing: the rise and fall of peer review https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review. It is time to move on and spend our time on more important activities.
The rise and fall of peer review

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing

Experimental History

#introduction πŸ‘‹ Hi, I’m Damiano, a research software developer based in Belgium. I help researchers make their research more open & reproducible! πŸ’ͺ

Things I do (mostly for #IAS and #wildlife data):
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Write #rstats & other software
πŸ’š Care about documentation
πŸ”“ Publish #opendata on @gbif
♣️ Leading a #coding club

I’m also into #spatial, #physics, #classicalmusic, #jazz, #chess and #geography.

Dude, read this paper. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk/

πŸ‘‹Hello I'm Nicky, a software developer turned #BiodiversityInformatics researcher: I try to use collaborative practices (version control, dependency mgmt, continuous integration etc) to build tools, analyse & mobilise #NaturalHistory specimen data

I grew up on a farm, where I learned about πŸŒ»πŸŒ³πŸ„πŸ¦‰πŸ¦‡ πŸ•ΈπŸ¦”πŸπŸ„ ... & building/ fixing things with whatever is available πŸ› 

#FirstGen student of #botany then #ComputerScience. Still learning with #OpenLifeSciences

#OpenScience
#RSE
#ResearchSoftwareEngineer

Hello! It’s my first day here! I’m a botanist (systematics & morphology… the good stuff) and science writer. When I’m not eyeballs-deep in writing a book, I freelance. Looking forward to finding my fellow plant nerds here.

#botany #taxonomy #PlantMastodon #introductions #womeninstem