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

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...


22-Jun-2009 TDWG 2009 Registration is Now OPEN

Online registration for TDWG 2009 in Montpellier, France is now open.

The programme for the conference is being developed by the TDWG 2009 Programme Committee and the latest version can always be found at ...


22-Jun-2009 TDWG 2009 Registration is Now OPEN

Online registration for TDWG 2009 in Montpellier, France is now open.

The programme for the conference is being developed by the TDWG 2009 Programme Committee and the latest version can always be found at ...


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