TDWG Now OASIS Member

By: Paul Allen

As part of the process required for developing a species conservation status standard in collaboration with IUCN and the Conservation Commons, TDWG has become a Contributing Association member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards OASIS. OASIS is a not-for-profit consortium that drives development, convergence and adoption of open web services standards for the global information community.

IUCN and the Conservation Commons has designated TDWG as the lead to develop the standard they will adopt to facilitate exchange of the conservation status of species. That process will follow the OASIS standards procedures. While this is the primary reason why TDWG joined OASIS, membership allows individual TDWG members to participate in any OASIS standards activities.

If you are interesting in participating as a TDWG member in OASIS, please contact Paul Allen (paul.e.allen [at] cornell [dot] edu).

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