The work of the Biodiversity Information Standards group, TDWG, should be of interest to many on this list.
The 2007 issue of The Proceedings of TDWG has just been published from the Bratislava conference. This conference draws together work of the TDWG Infrastructure Project (http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tip/): Significant developments of the new standards architecture were presented and of direct relevance to this list, Rich Pyle's presentation on LSID's in ZooBank (http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/252). The Table of Contents and individual abstracts are accessible from http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/issue/view/ISBN%20978-1-930723-71-9, the PDF version of the complete journal can be found at http://www.tdwg.org/fileadmin/2007meeting/documents/Proceedings_of_TDWG_ 2007.pdf, and the conference presentations can be found at http://www.tdwg.org/conference2007/programme/how-to-upload-slides/. Anna Weitzman and Lee Belbin acknowledge with thanks the Session Chairs, authors and the peer reviewers in helping with scheduling and the processing of abstracts. And - a special thanks to Eduard Stloukal and his team for an excellent meeting. Anna L. Weitzman, PhD Botanical and Biodiversity Informatics Research National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution office: 202.633.0846 mobile: 202.415.4684 [email protected]
