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

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

28-Jul-2009 Biodiversity Informatics databases

As you may be aware, TDWG is helping to support our community through three databases-

Biodiversity Informatics related projects and organizations (http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-projects/) Biodiversity Informatics related networks...


20-Jul-2009 TDWG on Twitter!

TDWG is now using a range of different social networking tools, including Twitter.

You can follow the official TDWG account (tdwg) by going to twitter.com/tdwg and choose 'Follow' if you have a Twitter account. ...


20-Jul-2009 TDWG on Twitter!

TDWG is now using a range of different social networking tools, including Twitter.

You can follow the official TDWG account (tdwg) by going to twitter.com/tdwg and choose 'Follow' if you have a Twitter account. ...


11-Jul-2009 Public Review of Darwin Core

TDWG is pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of Darwin Core - a standard for sharing biodiversity information. You will find the proposed standard is a living document with a history, an anchor in the Dublin...


11-Jul-2009 Public Review of Darwin Core

TDWG is pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of Darwin Core - a standard for sharing biodiversity information. You will find the proposed standard is a living document with a history, an anchor in the Dublin...


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