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community tdwg menu standards maintained by tdwg externally maintained journal journal why submit an extended abstract instructions for extended abstract submission instructions for reviewers editors community conferences conferences 2026 oslo norway 2025 bogotá colombia 2024 ginowan okinawa japan 2023 hobart australia 2022 sofia bulgaria 2021 virtual conference 2020 virtual conference 2019 leiden the netherlands 2018 dunedin new zealand 2017 ottawa canada 2016 santa clara de san carlos costa rica 2015 nairobi kenya 2014 jönköping sweden 2013 florence italy 2012 beijing china 2011 new orleans louisiana usa 2010 woods hole massachusetts usa 2009 montpellier france 2008 fremantle australia 2007 bratislava slovakia 2006 st louis missouri usa before 2006 about about executive committee functional subcommittees process constitution incorporation and status membership terms of use code of conduct diversity and inclusion statement liability disclaimer and release review manager guidelines contributing to the website tdwg newsletter archive logos contact news technical leading standards development interest or task group running an interest group running a task group techical reference technical recommendations accessing standards metadata vocabulary translations utility vocabularies controlled vocabulary for booleans tdwgutility vocabulary donate community the tdwg community is organized in interest groups these can have dedicated task groups to work on a standard or recommendation ratified standards are maintained by standard maintenance groups image by denisse vargas recordings of working sessions 2026 tdwg 2026 working sessions recordings are now available read more on this page community support fund interest and task groups tdwg interest ig and task tg groups undertake one of tdwg s core functions the development and maintenance of biodiversity information standards the tdwg process describes the steps for establishing and maintaining interest and task groups as well as the process for ratification of standards under the guidance of a review manager most important among these for new interest or task groups is the guidance for writing the group s charter and steps for having it reviewed by the tdwg executive committee exec an interest or task group charter describes the group s goals how it works pointers to background and specifications in progress and how to participate the tdwg exec is responsible for ensuring that the group s plan is scientifically sound and politically open and inclusive advice from the tdwg technical architecture group tag ensures that the methods and approach are technically sound the charters of active interest and task groups are linked below guidance for group conveners can be found in the community management guidelines community support fund in the past members of an interest or task group collaborated through face to face meetings and email discussion lists technologies have improved and most groups now collaborate through teleconferences and collaboration platforms such as github and or google docs nevertheless face to face meetings are still a meaningful way to get work done particularly when the wider consensus building has been done and a small number of experts can be convened to do a few days of very focused work accordingly tdwg has established the community support fund csf to support critical working meetings the size of the fund is adjusted annually by decision of the tdwg executive committee applications are usually solicited early in the calendar year through an announcement to i tg conveners this year 2025 however we are using an open call and responding to applications as they are received read more interest and task groups mg access to biological collections data ig annotations ig attribution tg people in biodiversity data mg audiovisual core tg 3d imagery and data tg image quality and ai readiness iqair tg views controlled vocabularies ig biodiversity data quality tg framework on data quality tg data quality tests and assertions tg data quality use cases tg best practices for development of vocabularies of values vocabularies ig biodiversity informatics curriculum ig biodiversity services and clients ig biological interactions data ig citizen science ig collection descriptions tg minimum information about a digital specimen mids tg modelling research expeditions mg darwin core tg invasive species tg plant phenology tg realm and biome tg sensitive species extension ig earth sciences and paleobiology tg darwin core chronometric age extension tg extension for geosciences efg tg mineralogy extension ig genomic biodiversity tg environmental samples and edna tg sustainable darwincore mixs interoperability ig geographical schemes tg marine geo schemes task group tg terrestrial geoschemes tg mg latimer core ig machine observations ig observations specimens tg how did it die tg humboldt extension tg material sample ig process ig species information tg invasive organism information tg plinian core mg taxon concept schema tcs maintenance group tg taxonomic concept schema tcs2 task group ig technical architecture group tg standards mapping task group what is tdwg contact us privacy policy code of conduct diversity and inclusion statement content on this site made open by biodiversity information standards tdwg is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4 0 international license edit this page