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.

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the 2012 TDWG annual conference will be held on October 22-26, 2012 at the China People’s Palace in Beijing, China. Professor Keping Ma, Deputy Director, Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences is Chair of the Local Organizing Committee; Yinan Liu, Deputy Director of the Office of the Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences is the Meeting Manager and Rusty Russell, Collections Manager at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, is Chair of the Program Committee.  The early registration fee before July 31 will be US$500 for members/US$575 for non-members which will include the conference, daily lunch buffet and a banquet.  The China People's Palace offers TDWG participants a discounted hotel rate of 550 Chinese RMB (about US$87) for a standard single or double room, including breakfast. 

Full information on accommodations, registration, program, abstract submission and other meeting details will soon be posted at www.tdwg.org.

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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-

• Free registration              - Required to access TDWG online resources
• Individual Membership     - US$75/year
• Institutional Membership - US$500/year but US$400 if paid by March 1

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

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