Darwin Core Background and History

Darwin Core was originally a product of The Species Analyst Project at the University of Kansas. During 2001-2003, under the MaNIS Project at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with the University of Kansas Biodiveristy Research Center, and funding from the California Academy of Sciences, the first version of the Darwin Core 2 was developed in tandem with the DiGIR protocol and its publicly released provider and portal software. MaNIS was the first deployment of a distributed database network based on DiGIR (16 Jun 2002), using version 1.21 (sometimes called the MaNIS version) of the Darwin Core (see Darwin Core Versions).

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The Darwin Core currently under review was first proposed in 2004 as a DRAFT standard of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group. At the 2005 TDWG Meeting a sixty-day period of review and comment ended with the retraction of the Darwin Core 2 from consideration as a standard (see the announcement on the TDWG mailing list). The Darwin Core has entered a new period of development, during which concerns about schema architecture for all TDWG standards are under discussion and development by the TDWG Architecture Group.

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