News Archive

08-Oct-2007 CATE LSID Resolution Service is live

The CATE project (Creating A Taxonomic e-Science) is a UK NERC-funded research project to create taxonomic web-revisions. The latest release includes an LSID Resolution Service (undertaken as part of a contract with GBIF). The...

03-Sep-2007 Request for Comment on TDWG LSID Applicability Statement

The TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) has been working on a new draft of the TDWG LSID Applicability Statement. This document-

provides guidance on how to use Life Sciences Identifiers (LSID) to meet specific requirements of...

02-Aug-2007 Geointeroperability Workshop Outcomes

A workshop hosted at CRIA during the first week in April 2007 clearly demonstrated the interoperability between TDWG and OGC standards. A Memorandum of Understanding was recently signed between TDWG and OGC and this work is a...

01-Aug-2007 TNC Interest Group Charter Now Approved

The Charter for the Taxonomic Names and Concepts (TNC) Interest Group has just been approved by the TDWG Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee recognizes that this interest group is core to TDWG's mandate: To develop...

16-Jul-2007 Annual Conference - Update

Contact information updated and inexpensive rooms at the conference venue released for general reservations.