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Taxon name objects in SDD may have atomized taxon information (monomial, rank, etc.) but the scientific organism name may also be expressed as a whole simple as part ...

Welcome to the home of the SDD WIKI NEWS: The former SDD TDWG subgroup has renamed itself and is now the "Biological Descriptions" Interest group. As a result, the ...

Real world examples (SDD 1.1) To help application developers in understanding SDD and testing their software, we provide a number of "real world" example data sets ...

Discussion of SDD V 1.1 Necessary changes that are already enacted in the SDD development trunk (of the subversion versioning system): Newer releases of Altova ...

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Version1dot1 In September 2005, version 1.0 of SDD was voted to be an official TDWG standard. A number of minor problems was found after the intitial adoption, This ...

Biological Descriptions (BD) Interest Group Charter Convener (1) #GroupConvener Gregor Hagedorn, Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land und Forstwirtschaft, Königin ...

First : ) meeting of Biological Descriptions IG, Saturday 9 13:00 (This is the first meeting, because the existing SDD Interest Group has decided to rename itself ...

SDD Schema Group Charter (A Task Group of the SDD Interest Group) Convener Gregor Hagedorn, Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land und Forstwirtschaft, Königin Luise ...

History and Context of SDD In the 1980's, TDWG endorsed the DELTA (Descriptive Language for Taxonomy) format as a standard for representing taxonomic descriptions ...

Services or programs using SDD This page tries to list software and services that currently use the SDD standard. Current services using SDD version 1.1 are ...

MailingList The preferred method of discussion is now the SDD Wiki, but we occasionally still use the mailing list. NEW: Along with other TDWG on line resources ...

Charter for the "Structured Descriptive Data" interest group As required by the process, we have two different charters. First the general SDD Interest Group ...

Lets try to code the following in RDF: DESCRIPTIVE Data for Aus bus Reference 1 says that the color of the central spot of hindwings is usually dark red and ...

RDFandSDD Something new upfront DataChallengeRDF Below some older discussions: I'm quite confused from the meeting reports whether there was some argument accepted ...

SDD2006BerlinMinutes Minutes of the SDD Berlin 2006 Meeting (First week of April) This page contains agenda items together with minutes for individual items. A second ...

ConvertingLIF2SDD This topic originated from the discussions in UBioXidDevelopment about how to convert Lucid LIF data to SDD. The main points from the discussion ...

MediaObjects In RC2, it is not clear where one can put a caption on a MediaObject JacobAsiedu 05 Oct 2006 !MediaObject/Representation/Detail role "caption" . Caption ...

ConceptStateDiscussion Kevin writes in email: "I'm also keen to visit the topic we didn't properly get to discuss it seems to me that global states are poorly served ...

IssuesWithConceptStates The uniqueness constraint(CharacterStateKey) on StateDefinition's ensure's that global states cannot be referenced more than once within Characters ...

DiscussionOfReleaseProcedure An email exchange between DamianBarnier and BobMorris contained: Can you clarify what you mean by development, do you mean editing the ...

SubversionReleaseProcedures This topic is for discussion, but it reflects procedures BobMorris and JacobAsiedu have put in place for a release and revision control ...

XercesValidator This is a tool that validates an xml document against a schema using xerces parser. JacobAsiedu 12 May 2006 validator.zip: XML validator Gregor ...

EnumeratedValues (For the relationship between controlled vocabularies and extensibility, please read SemiControlledEnumeratedValues). GregorHagedorn 10 May 2006 ...

WhenAreTwoAgentsTheSame Are two Agents the same if the have same last names and FreeFormDescriptions JacobAsiedu 06 Feb 2004 (Note GH: FreeFormDescription is the ...

UBioXidNameLinking Patrick wrote: "As far as the name sources go, we do plan on combining the two project eventually, but we are really trying to get X:ID fully functioning ...

SchemaBugs10Beta2 Conceptual bugs As Jacob notes, the Publication element in Citation should be required. The next beta version released will incorporate this minor ...

NameForStandard When the SDD group was initiated it was defined as a task group to explore the structure of descriptive data and come up with a proposal for a new ...

FederatingDescriptions We have been tempted in the past (I think) to view SDD documents as projects in the old DELTA and Lucid senses as isolated projects with an ...

ResolvedTopicGenericStates (Bob started the topic with:) My example is from neuroscience: synapses need two characters: preSynapticCellType and postSynapticCellType ...

ListOfTextCharacter Bob writes: "I think it is that SDD is more expressive than our current descriptive Schema, which is close to flat. Aside from a monolithic character ...

ResolvedTopicParsingOfCharacterTrees Consider the following character tree: leaves shape ovate elliptic indumentum upper surface ...

ClosedTopicFederationAndRootElementName How would SDD look in a federated situation? The scenario that an SDD project may not reside on a single server in a single ...

SchemaComplexity Complex schemas may look overwhelming (see for example the XML Schema Schema at http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd) but the fact is, complex schema ...

SupportForMultipleAudiences Trevor asked about the perhaps political reasons to support multiple languages and audiences. I fully understand the urge to avoid ...

DebugrefAutomation Except for the background most of the discussion below is obsoleted by the completed debugref tool described on DebugRef. The tool can be used either ...

ClosedTopicStatisticalMeasureReuse I do not like the current structure of Statistical measures. For categorical states, we can define local states directly at a character ...

StoredIdentificationKeys StoredIdentificationKeysMayBeDirectedGraphs StoredKeyStatementVsQuestion IsPictorialKeyPossible

SddCvs I will make the SddCvs repository more friendly and supply developers with checkin facilities (actually, I think it is time to submit this to sourceforge.. ...

StoredKeyStatementVsQuestion It seems that if A, B, and C are Statements on the children of a node, it is always logically correct to make the Question on the parent ...

WhatToDoWithElementsMarkedForDiscussion WhatToDoWithElementsMarkedForDiscussion BobMorris 22 Apr 2006: In DiscussionFor101b7, I suggested that a notion of "SDD ...

TextCharacters In producing some !NaturalLanguageDescriptions(NLD) from the Illinois FNA and some of our own data, we found that there are objects which might reasonably ...

SchemaChangeLog091EarlyBetaVersions Changes in 0.91 beta 15 (relative to the 0.9 Dec. 1. 2003 release) This is an updated version containing most of the minor changes ...

SDDContextSearches From Norbert Siegmund in reference to work in our AMNH Ants project: After the last meeting with Prof. Böhm, i have some questions about the XML ...

AmnhLegacyLiteratureProject NovitatesTreatment 1 0.xml: Natural Language Coding of a taxonomic treatment in the AMNH legacy literature project This is my first attempt ...

NewlinesInSchemaLocationAttribute You only care about this topic if you are using XSLT to transform instance documents for some reason, and if you want to use XML ...

SchemaChangeLog10Beta2 Changes in SDD 1.0 beta 2, relative to the 0.9 Dec. 1. 2003 release) (SDD 1.0 beta 1 was released 11. August 2004, the slightly updated beta ...

ResolvedTopicNonUniqueNessOfClassName I have noticed that SDD or should i say UBIF does not ensure that Classname's are unique even in the same Dataset. A Class ...

InitiationDateForImportedLegacyData We previously had a complex data structure that allowed to contain partial dates, e.g. if only the year is known. In SDD 0.9 beta ...