Some comments emailed in by Arthur: 1. In the Recommendations, I think there separate Recommendation on the consistent naming of TDWG Standards. It is mentioned under ...
Current Website Documents Below it is a list of documents under development regarding the new TDWG Website: TDWG Website Preview Guide.pdf: TDWG Website Preview ...
Documentation best practice from other organisations Global Grid Forum http://www.ggf.org/index.php First document in series sets out documentation requirements ...
Core Documentation The DocsStrategy identifies documents that must be produced to initialise the standards documentation process. These documents are being developed ...
This page is devoted to the developing TDWG documenation process documentation of documentation. DocsPriority2007 A Prioritized List for Documents and Standards ...
For completeness this is a cut and paste from Draft Strategy Word Doc A Documentation and Supporting Software Strategy for TDWG 1 Requirements 1.1 All TDWG standards ...
Documentation and Standards Priorities for 2007 This document gives priorities for the production of documents and some standards in 2007. Standards Standard ...
The final version of this report has now been submitted. Summary of Documentation Produced October 2005 to October 2006 Introduction This is a summary of the documentation ...
A Documentation and Supporting Software Strategy for TDWG TDWG Documenation and Supporting Strategy.doc: The final strategy. TDWG Documentation Priorities ...
Fix Me This page lists the pages that contain the WikiWord FixMe (excepting the HowToContribute page and this page). By convention things that are incomplete or erronious ...
Glossary The following terms attempt to standardise the syntax of concepts that the TDWG Infrastructure Project routinely address. $ ABCD: Access to Biological ...
Feedback on Cover Page Admin Standard (back to TipDocumentsInitialStandardsPage) Gregor Hagedorn: With regard to the technical format of the "cover.xml" metadata ...
Feedback on Files Admin Standard (back to TipDocumentsInitialStandardsPage) Gregor Hagedorn: Point "2 Contents of Standards": I believe the file naming conventions ...
This page is just to develop a block of text for the home page. TDWG's standards The most widely deployed formats for biodiversity occurrence data are Core (wiki ...
Review of Initial TIP Documents (Dec 2005) Note: This page has evolved into the TipDocuments page. The Project was the result of a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation ...
Walter Berendsohn (answers to questions posed with the report) Are the observations accurate? Yes. Are there any other organizations that should have been reviewed ...
Walter Berendsohn (Recommendation C1: automation of forms) I have always told people that it is best to do a system manually before it is automated. I am not sure ...
Walter Berendsohn a) Formal change: use a b c d in bullets where those are not in line with the numbering of the heading (e.g. 3.0.1). b) The point made in 12 should ...
Summary of reviews on the Website Outsourcing Evaluation document This page contains a summary of the feedback provided by the TDWG Executive Committee and TDWG Subgroup ...
Summary of reviews on the Website Requirements document This page contains a summary of the feedback provided by the TDWG Executive Committee and TDWG Subgroup Conveners ...
Summary of reviews on the Website Technology Evaluation document This page contains a summary of the feedback provided by the TDWG Executive Committee and TDWG Subgroup ...
TaxonAPI This is kind of defunct replaced by use of OAI and RDF I believe RDH 2007 11 15 TaxonAPI is a Application Programming Interface for retrieving semantically ...
GetReferringTConcepts Method of TaxonAPI Description The TaxonConcepts that refer, through a TaxonRelationship, to the ids of the TaxonConcepts passed in. This method ...
GetReferringTNames Method of TaxonAPI Description Retrieves one or more TaxonNames that refer to the ids of the TaxonNames passed in. TaxonNames may refer to those ...
GetRootTConcepts method of TaxonAPI Description TaxonName objects form a series of isolated directed graphs. There is no logical (semantically correct) way of joining ...
GetTConceptsByID Method of TaxonAPI Description Retrieves one or more TaxonConcepts by their ID field. Parameters Name TCS Concept Type Default Description ...
GetTConceptsByTNameID Method of TaxonAPI Description Retrieves one or more TaxonConcepts by their Name reference field i.e. get all the concepts for a TaxonName id ...
GetTConceptsMatching Method of TaxonAPI Description Retrieves TaxonConcepts that match the filter passed in. Note that the matching includes matching on a join of ...
GetTNamesByID Method of TaxonAPI Description Retrieves one or more TaxonNames by their ID field (/Dataset/TaxonNames/TaxonName@id). Parameters Name TCS Concept ...
GetTNamesMatching Method of TaxonAPI Description Retrieves TaxonNames that match the filter passed in. See TaxonAPIMatching for details. This method supports paging ...
Identifiers Used in the TaxonAPI Introduction This sounds complex but is actually quite simple. As most publishers will use internal data base IDs or simple hashings ...
How matching works in TaxonAPI (This still needs a little work...) Introduction There are two methods in the TaxonAPI that allow matching GetTNamesMatching() and ...
How paging works in TaxonAPI Some of the responses to calls may exceed a size that a publisher wishes to issue in one chunk or is reasonable for the client to receive ...
A TaxonConcept is a first class object in the TaxonConceptSchema. It is used to encode an actual taxon i.e. a name (that may be represented as a TaxonName) plus an ...
The Taxon Concept Schema is a TDWG standard for passing taxonomic data between applications. It's principle high level objects are TaxonName and TaxonConcept. It also ...
TaxonName is a first class object in the TaxonConceptSchema it is used to describe the nomenclatural (code governed) aspects of a biological name. RogerHyam 24 ...
Nomenclator subset of the TaxonAPI The Nomenclator API is a subset of the TaxonAPI that just deals with TaxonName objects. The methods are: GetTNamesByID() ...
TDWG Infrastructure Project (TIP) Document Repository The documents in the repository are stored the TDWG Website. Feedback on the documents is hosted here. Comments ...
Initial Standards This page hosts links to and feedback on the initial standards that are proposed in the TDWG Documentation Strategy (see TipDocuments). It is recommended ...
Results of a Survey of TDWG Members and Potential Members January/February 2006 The results are presented here minus information that might identify the contributors ...
What should TDWG's `CORE BUSINESS' be? (back to TipSurveyResults) 1. 'club' for biodiversity informatics practioners. 2. Forum for developing standards. 3 A recognised ...
Is there anything else about TDWG that you would like to comment about? Comments on responses (back to TipSurveyResults) (back to TipSurveyResults) RogerHyam ...
Is there anything else about TDWG that you would like to comment about? (back to TipSurveyResults) 1. Might be more effective within a larger organization. 2. ...
What term would you use to define your current POSITION? Comments on responses (back to TipSurveyResults) (back to TipSurveyResults) RogerHyam 26 Jan 2006
What term would you use to define your current POSITION (e.g., taxonomist, microbiologist, database administrator, computer scientist.?) (back to TipSurveyResults ...
What would be your TOP PRIORITY for TDWG? (back to TipSurveyResults) 1. Promoting standards for interoperability of Taxnonomic Information 1. To define a more professional ...
What (if any) COMMUNITY should TDWG target to recruit new members to make it a more effective organisation? Comments on responses (back to TipSurveyResults) (back ...
What (if any) COMMUNITY should TDWG target to recruit new members to make it a more effective organisation? (back to TipSurveyResults) A hard one! The specialist ...
What do you see as TDWG's GREATEST STRENGTH? (back to TipSurveyResults) A wide base of volunteer contributors and the goodwill of a wide range of bodies to see TDWG ...
How long have you been associated with TDWG (decimal years, eg 1.5)? Comments on responses (back to TipSurveyResults) (back to TipSurveyResults) RogerHyam 26 ...
What could TDWG provide that would be of most value to YOU, your ORGANISATION or your COMMUNITY? Comments on responses (back to TipSurveyResults) (back to TipSurveyResults ...
What could TDWG provide that would be of most value to YOU, your ORGANISATION or your COMMUNITY? (back to TipSurveyResults) A manual of how to actual IMPLEMENT the ...
What do you see as TDWG's current GREATEST WEAKNESS? (back to TipSurveyResults) 1. Standard process still not solid. 2. Discussions have been ad hoc and not sufficiently ...
Welcome to the TDWG Infrastructure Project web This wiki supports collaborative development of documents and specifications regarding TDWG Infrastructure Project ...
This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this TIP web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to come ...
TIP Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the TIP web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be overwritten ...
TDWG Website Development Plan This document describes the project plan for development of the new TDWG Website. Goals The goal of this activity is to develop and ...
TDWG Website Requirements Introduction This report provides requirements for an operational environment (called "The Website" in this report) for the development ...