News Archive

16-Jul-2007 The first Task Group Charter Now Approved

The Darwin Core Task Group charter is the first of TDWG’s task groups to be approved by the Executive Committee. This task group sits under the Observations and Specimen Records Interest Group.Interest Groups provide the home...

11-Jul-2007 Infrastructure Project: Supported Round-2 projects

The TDWG Infrastructure received 29 project proposals totaling US$730,782 for Round-2 support. The priorities were

Advancing the deployment of LSIDsAligning with the TDWG Architecture

15 proposals were able to be...

10-Jul-2007 TDWG Congratulates GBIF on the Launch of its New Portal

The launch of the new GBIF portal occurred at the twelfth meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of Parties' Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, held at UNESCO headquarters in...

09-Jul-2007 IUCN-OASIS Second Workshop on Biodiversity Standards

The second meeting organized by IUCN to discuss biodiversity standards was held at Conservation International (Arlington, Virginia) on June 26. Lee Belbin and Roger Hyam represented TDWG and Éamonn O Tuama represented GBIF.

The...

19-Jun-2007 LSID Policy Workshop

A workshop to develop a policy on LSID deployment was sponsored by the TDWG Infrastructure Project. The workshop was hosted by Greg Whitbread at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra April 2-4 2007.

The workshop...