News Archive

14-Jan-2008 Biodiversity Information Networks Database (BIND)

A database of biodiversity information related network organizations has been created on the TDWG site at www.tdwg.org/biodiv-networks/.

The list was generated by Neil Thomson as one of the outcomes of an NCD project...

03-Jan-2008 NCD Developments in 2007

TDWG's Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD) data standard has seen major developments in 2007, mainly thanks to grants from the TDWG Infrastructure Project (who were in turn funded by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation). The...

21-Dec-2007 Chairman's Message

Dear TDWG Members and Friends

As the new Chairman, I'm looking forward to helping raise TDWG's profile in the biodiversity informatics community in 2008. The TDWG Infrastructure Project has achieved much, but ends this month....

12-Dec-2007 Executive Summaries

We have done a poor job in the past in communicating effectively to a general audience about our work. The TDWG Infrastructure Project has addressed this problem in a number of ways. One has been to prepare a set of Executive...

03-Dec-2007 TDWG Now OASIS Member

As part of the process required for developing a species conservation status standard in collaboration with IUCN and the Conservation Commons, TDWG has become a Contributing Association member of the Organization for the...