Professor Frank A Bisby has passed away
Frank A Bisby
1945 - 2011
It is with regret that we announce the death of Professor Frank Bisby on
the evening of Tuesday 25th October 2011.
He will be missed by his colleagues and friends.
He was the first Chair of TDWG. When we told him goodbye at the annual conference in New Orleans none of us thought it would be for ever.
Basic Standards Recommendations
The most widely deployed formats for biodiversity occurrence data are Darwin Core (wiki) and ABCD (wiki). New deployments of these and other XML based formats should use the TAPIR exchange protocol.
The TDWG community's priority is the deployment of Life Science Identifiers (LSID), the preferred Globally Unique Identifier technology and transitioning to RDF encoded metadata as defined by a set of simple vocabularies. All new projects should address the need for tagging their data with LSIDs and consider the use or development of appropriate vocabularies.
TDWG's activities within the biodiversity informatics domain can be found in the Activities section of this website.
2011 TDWG annual conference Announcement
The TDWG Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the 2011 TDWG annual conference will be held on October 16-21, 2011 at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hank Bart, Director and Curator of Fishes of Tulane Museum of Natural History, will be the local sponsor. Information on accommodations, registration, and other meeting details are available here
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