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 ...
Welcome to the home of SDD within the Biological Descriptions interest group Note: The former SDD TDWG subgroup has renamed itself and is now the "Biological Descriptions ...
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 ...
OpenDiscussionPointsSDD10 This topic lists discussion points still open with the release of 1.0. They may be addressed in future versions of SDD, or already before ...
Charter for the "Structured Descriptive Data" interest group As required by the process, we have two different charters. First the general BDI SDD Interest ...
WhenAreTwoAgentsTheSame Are two Agents the same if the have same last names and FreeFormDescriptions JacobAsiedu 06 Feb 2004 (Note GH: FreeFormDescription is the ...
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 ...
SyntheticData What should be the nature of (large quantities of) synthetic SDD data intended for testing query techniques against SDD repositories? BobMorris 12 ...
TheProblemOfSex Sometimes different sexes have radically different descriptions. Are they different classes? Or do we have two Descriptions of the same class? In the ...
UnnamedBodyPartsDefinedByLocation The following descriptions are from Wheeler, Ants of the Congo. I have added sentence numbers. Subgenus Myrmoclad cus Wheeler ...
SubversionReleaseProcedures This topic is for discussion, but it reflects procedures BobMorris and JacobAsiedu have put in place for a release and revision control ...
SDD Schema Group Charter (A Task Group of the SDD Interest Group) Convener Gregor Hagedorn, Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land und Forstwirtschaft, Königin Luise ...
StoredIdentificationKeysMayBeDirectedGraphs Identification keys provide an explicit Reticulation element pointing into any node in the same or other stored identification ...
SubversionTreeSnapshot This is the history of the sdd repository at the state of the release of SDD1.1 RC1.Red boxes are branches that have been removed. (In SVN ...
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 ...
SupportForMultipleAudiences Trevor asked about the perhaps political reasons to support multiple languages and audiences. I fully understand the urge to avoid ...
StatisticalMeasureOntology At the meeting the topic arose why we attempt do define some fundamental UnivariateStatisticalMeasures semantics when SEEK is alsp attempting ...
SecondaryClassifiersWithinClasses This topic is an attempt to find a general solution for TheProblemOfSex. I am still struggling with it and very much hope that you ...
SchemaChangeLog09beta24to27 Changes in SDD 0.9 beta 24 (sent only to Kevin) Kevin pointed out some gross bugs I had introduced into CodedDescriptions while editing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SDD2004Berlin On 17./18th May 2004 we had a review meeting in Berlin. Some presentations from Meeting are attached at the end! The topics we managed to discuss together ...
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 ...
ResolvedTopicRankLevelBogosity Of course, RankLevel of a Class (e.g. genus, species, etc.) is "merely" a human readable string, but there is no way to keep it consistent ...
RepeatedObservations Issues related to repeated observations / observation sets "ObservationSet" etc. can be confused with collection vs. observation of an object ...
RDFandSDD Something new upfront DataChallengeRDF Below some older discussions: I'm quite confused from the meeting reports whether there was some argument accepted ...
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 ...
NameForStandardWikiDiscussions (This is a discussion area based on the previous extensive discussions in person and on the email list, documented in NameForStandard ...
ModularizationOfSchema The plan for SDD is to technically modularize the schema. The reason for not doing it already are that this makes change/refactoring more difficult ...
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 ...
IncludeMechanismsInSupportOfIntegration In the Berlin meeting, DonaldHobern and BobMorris agreed to discuss the use of simple XInclude mechanisms in an instance document ...
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 ...
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 ...
LanguageSpecificClassNames Implicitly we assume that class names are scientific names that work for all languages. That is not necessarily true (diseases, non biological ...
DiscussionFor1dot1beta9 b9 should be ignored by all but Gregor, Bob and Jacob. I propose that Kevin begin documenting from b10 when it is released and the release ...
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 ...
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 ...
DebugRef sdd.zip: SDD reference debugging tool sddDebugRef is a tool by JacobAsiedu to supply meaningful text to the debugref attributes in SDD instance documents ...
ConvertingLIF2SDD This topic originated from the discussions in UBioXidDevelopment about how to convert Lucid LIF data to SDD. The main points from the discussion ...
DeltaDirectives DELTA directives Synopsis A discussion of the structure of DELTA directives, and the resulting problems importing or converting DELTA data sets. ...
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 ...
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 ...
DELTAandSDD DELTA and SDD ( SDD for DELTA experts) Synopsis SDD is not simply DELTA expressed in xml. We try to deal with many problems the DELTA users and the ...
ColorRangeSampleData Range representation problems The element in !ColorRangeSampleData element in 1.1b8 has its !ColorRange expressed as a polygon. This is somewhat ...