Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) Standard 2.06

Overview

This is ABCD version 2.06. For more information on ABCD in general please see the general ABCD resource directory. Several minor updates have been done to ABCD2.06, the ratified TDWG standard, that are backwards compatible and do not require a change in the namespace. For more details see Updates to ABCD2.06.

Note: While this document is human-readable, RDDL-aware processors may use it to automatically retrieve resources such as different schema versions for validating documents. See http://www.rddl.org for further information.

ABCD Home Page

ABCD v2 Documentation Wiki

ABCD Primer

ABCD2.06: XML Schema for validation (normative)

Note 1: Although RDDL-aware processors may automatically detect a schema location, most processors require an explicit location. ABCD instance documents intended for validation should therefore contain the following attributes in the "Datasets" root element:
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/2.06 http://rs.tdwg.org/abcd/2.06/ABCD_2.06.xsd".

ABCD2.06: Zipped archive with XML Schema plus accessory documentations files for downloading

See also the Updates to ABCD2.06 since its ratification that are backwards compatible and share the same namespace

Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) Standard 2.06

Overview

Resources