Basic Standards Recommendations

The most widely deployed formats for biodiversity occurrence data are Darwin Core (wiki) and ABCD (wiki).

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.

2013 TDWG Annual Conference Announcement

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its annual conference in Florence, Italy on October 28 – November 1.  it  will be held at the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo (http://www.hotelmediterraneofirenze.com) but attendees will be free to choose from any of the accommodations in the area, many within a short distance.  Registration details will be provided early in 2013.  The meeting website will soon be available at www.tdwg.org/conference2013.

Please become a member. TDWG needs everyone with a strong interest in biodiversity information to participate in developing effective standards for sharing that information. We need IT professionals, taxonomists, ecologists, geoscientists, and librarians. We need members from institutions and agencies that do or could use our standards to make their data more usable. Your participation ensures that what we develop will save you time and money.

There are three ways to join TDWG-

Institutional members are entitled to up to five discounted registrations at the annual conference. Please visit the Membership page for more details.

Latest News

10-Apr-2011 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...


22-Feb-2011 LSID and GUID Applicability Statements Approved

The TDWG Executive Committee has approved the Life Sciences Identifiers Applicability Statement (LSID_AS) and the Globally Unique Identifiers (GUID_AS) Applicability Statement as new TDWG standards.

The Executive committee...


17-Jan-2011 TDWG Conferences - Call for Expressions of Interest

Happy New Year 2011 to all of you! It’s the UN International Year of the Forest, the UNEP Year of the Bat and the Chinese Year of the Rabbit.

As the new Chair of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and on behalf of the...


02-Sep-2010 Scholarships at Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) from Belgium has launched a new call for scholarships for scientific study visits on biodiversity in African Zoology and Wood Biology.  The programme targets African scientists and...


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