**Working Group 1: Assessment of existing systems and standards**
Working Group (WG) 1 will initially develop a network of appropriate experts to assess and compare existing protocols and standards on digitisation, mobilisation of biodiversity/collection data, data management and publication. Members will be information technicians and biodiversity researchers involved in collection digitisation and data management. Members of all other workgroups will be represented in WG1.
Refers to Objective: 1
Tasks:
(a) Establish a European Network of collection digitisation, biodiversity informatics and data management experts covering the widest possible selection of biological and geological collection types;
(b) Compile, document and extend existing standards and protocols already successfully used in the context of collection digitisation, data management, data quality control, and publication;
(c) Assess and compare the usability of standards and, if applicable, reasons for their under-utilisation;
(d) Identify gaps in the landscape of standards, which will be addressed as a priority in the other WGs;
(e) Compile extensible Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)-based standard workflows as anchor point for documentation of relevant standards, protocols;
(f) Develop a MOBILISE-after plan for the long-term sustainability of the achievements of the project.
Milestones:
Scope of assessments determined;
Assessment framework determined;
Assessments completed.
Major deliverables:
A report / scientific publication containing the outcome of a broad assessment of existing systems and standards; It will include a gap analysis and a list of requirements which will feed into the other WGs.
COST Action: WG, Action meetings, Joint peer-reviewed publications, open access.
