1. 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

2. 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 history

3. 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/ http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/28812/ VoMaG report http://www.gbif.org/resources/2246 VoMaG process 49 members

4. http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/21382/

5. Initial development on VoMaG Site Two rounds of review (within group and public) VoMaG report delivered to TDWG on Sept 20 th Two related sessions at TDWG organised VoMaG report

6. Three main sections Status of the TDWG ontology Semantic MediaWiki as a development platform Requirements for a framework for managing vocabularies VoMaG report

7. Agenda TimeTitle/Presenter 09.00 – 09.05 Introduction to VoMaG Éamonn Ó Tuama 09.05 – 09.20 The TDWG Ontologies Steve Baskauf 09.20 – 09.35 A framework for managing vocabularies Dag Endresen 09.35 – 09.45 Semantic MediaWiki - a community platform for vocabulary development Gregor Hagedorn 09.45 – 09.55 Developing a vocabulary: the SINP use case Julie Chataigner & Laurent Poncet 09.55 – 10.05 Modeling property values: Is SKOS part of the solution or part of the problem? Robert A. Morris 10.05 – 10.30General discussion

8. Discussion topics