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. Lee and Ricardo will be staying on one day per week, so hopefully some momentum can be maintained. Roger will be working on a 'Biodiversity Collections Index' that relates directly with NCD.

As many of you would know, I have a new challenge as the Director of the Atlas o

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 Summaries. Four of these have been done as a trial-

ABCD,Darwin Core,TAPIR andTCS.

 Piers Higgs was contracted to work with the relevant Conveners and I on these documents. Feedback to the Conveners and I (and any other ideas) would be appreciated. There are also vid

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 Advancement of Structured Information Standards OASIS. OASIS is a not-for-profit consortium that drives development, convergence and adoption of open web services standards for the global information community.IUCN and the Conservation Commons has designated TDWG as the lead to