Working Sessions 2025

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Last updated: 2025-05-12

Virtual sessions for interest, task, and maintenance groups

Interest and task groups are the driving force for developing and maintaining TDWG standards, and participation is the essential factor that gives TDWG standards authority in open science. As the biodiversity informatics community grows every year, we hold virtual introductory working sessions to:

  • Inform the wider biodiversity information community about the ongoing work to develop and maintain standards;
  • Review progress to date;
  • Engage new contributors; and
  • Set the agenda for this year’s work.

Schedule and registration

The TDWG community spans the globe, which makes scheduling any single real-time event inconvenient for some people. Some groups solved this problem by holding their “session” twice- once for each hemisphere (East/West)- increasing the likelihood that one will be less inconvenient. We recorded most sessions and have posted the videos on TDWG’s YouTube channel, in playlist of 2025 Working Session Videos.

All sessions were held between 14 and 25 April. Registration was free, but required to get the Zoom link.

Then see the alphabetical session list below to see which session have videos and then click the “▶️” to view the session’s video.

Session details

Interest/Task/Maintenance Group East/West Date Time (UTC) Local Time Go to video
ABCD   2025-04-17 17:30 See in your time-zone ▶️
Audiovisual Core MG   2025-04-16 17:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Darwin Core MG   2025-04-15 15:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Data Quality TG 2   2025-04-14 21:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Earth Sciences Paleo IG   2025-04-22 15:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
eDNA TG   2025-04-15 13:30 See in your time-zone ▶️
Geoschemes - Marine TG   2025-04-17 20:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Invasive Alien Species West 2025-04-14 20:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Invasive Alien Species East 2025-04-15 7:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Latimer Core East 2025-04-25 14:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Latimer Core West 2025-04-25 21:00 See in your time-zone (not recorded)
Machine Observations IG   2025-04-16 11:30 See in your time-zone ▶️
Mineralogy Extension East 2025-04-22 13:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Mineralogy Extension West 2025-04-22 20:00 See in your time-zone (Canceled)
Minimum Infor Dig Specimens (MIDS)   2025-04-17 14:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Modelling Research Expeditions TG   2025-04-24 15:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Sensitive Species Data Extension   2025-04-15 11:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Standards Mapping TG   2025-04-22 16:30 See in your time-zone ▶️
Taxon Concept Standard East 2025-04-16 10:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Taxon Concept Standard West 2025-04-17 21:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
TDWG Partnerships Subcommittee   2025-04-15 12:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Technical Architecture Group East 2025-04-16 15:00 See in your time-zone ▶️
Technical Architecture Group West 2025-04-16 22:00 See in your time-zone (Canceled)