14-Jan-2008 Biodiversity Information Networks Database (BIND)

A database of biodiversity information related network organizations has been created on the TDWG site at www.tdwg.org/biodiv-networks/.

The list was generated by Neil Thomson as one of the outcomes of an NCD project supported by the TDWG Infrastructure Project.  These networks identify organizations that that could, should or are already using TDWG standards.

Thanks to Ricardo for setting up this database!There are currently 47 organizations listed with a brief summary of their ai

03-Jan-2008 NCD Developments in 2007

TDWG's Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD) data standard has seen major developments in 2007, mainly thanks to grants from the TDWG Infrastructure Project (who were in turn funded by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation). The first grant enabled the transformation of the standard from XML Schema format to RDF and associated vocabulary files. NCD is now fully compliant with the TDWG standards architecture. An XML Schema may be derived from the RDF if necessary, for example to give guidance to d