News Archive

09-Mar-2010 TDWG 2010: Woods Hole Massachusetts September 26 - October 1

Dear TDWG Members and FriendsDonald Hobern as Chairman of TDWG has just announced on behalf of the TDWG Executive Committee that TDWG 2010 will be held at Woods Hole Massachusetts September 26 - October 1.The decision this year...

01-Mar-2010 Multimedia Resources Metadata Schema Submitted for Review

The GBIF - TDWG Multimedia Resources Metadata Schema (MRTG)has been submitted to the TDWG STandards Track for review.

MRTG is a data standard for exchanging data describing biodiversity multimedia resources and...

01-Feb-2010 TAPIR Approved as a TDWG Standard

The TDWG Executive Committee has approved the adoption of TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR) - www.tdwg.org/standards/449/ as a TDWG standard.

The committee acknowledges the excellent work of the TAPIR...

29-Jan-2010 Review of TDWG Systems and Services

As you are probably aware, we have had a few problems with the TDWG systems over the last few years. Thankfully, most of the issues have been minor, but we have had a few more serious problems with Twiki.

While a number of...

31-Oct-2009 TDWG Interest Group on Phylogenetics Standards Now Official

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization officially approved the Phylogenetics Standards Interest Group in September 2009. Interest Groups form the primary social and scientific units that drive and sustain...