News Archive

26-Oct-2009 GUID and LSID Applicability Statements - Public Review

TDWG is pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) and Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) Applicability Statements. Applicability Statements provide guidance for use of...

09-Oct-2009 Darwin Core Ratified as a TDWG Standard

The TDWG Executive Committee announces the official ratification of Darwin Core (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm) as a TDWG standard.  Darwin Core joins four...

27-Sep-2009 Charles Copp

It is with very deep sadness that I report the death of Charles Copp on Thursday September 24th 2009 after a long and valiant struggle against a brain tumour.

Many people in our communities will have come across Charles in his...

14-Sep-2009 Public Review of TAPIR

TDWG is pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of the TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR) - a method for sharing biodiversity information.  Since being officially put forward as a draft,...

28-Jul-2009 Biodiversity Informatics databases

As you may be aware, TDWG is helping to support our community through three databases-

Biodiversity Informatics related projects and organizations (http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-projects/) Biodiversity Informatics related networks...