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Sunday 15 October

1. TDWG Activities
- Introduction to TDWG
- Short presentations by active Subgroup Conveners

2. TDWG Activities
- Short presentations by active Subgroup Conveners

3. New Infrastructure
- New Process
- Documentation
- Web environment

4. New Infrastructure
- Common Architecture
- GUIDs
- TDWG funding

5. Welcome Reception (evening)

Monday 16 October

6. Business Meeting
- Processes
- Architecture
- Ballot on Constitution changes

7. Standards & Protocols
- TAPIR
- Proposed Standards
- Emerging Standards
- Integrating external standards
- Review of old Standards

8. Standards
- Modularising schemas
- Integrating external standards
- Compliance/Conformance

9. Hot topics & New ideas
- Ontologies & Semantics
- Data representation languages

Tuesday 17 October

10. Imaging

11. Observations

12. Discussion Forum
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Other topics (to be advised)

13. Subgroup Session
- NCD
- Other topics (to be advised)

Wednesday 17 October

14. Subgroup Session

15. Poster & Computer Demonstration Session
- Topics to be advised

16a. GBIF Provider Training (BioCASe/TAPIR)

16b. GBIF Provider Training (subject to be advised)

Banquet (evening)
(by ticket purchased in advance - see Banquet Page)

Thursday 19 October

17. Symposium - Taxonomy
- Managing inconsistent taxonomies
- EDIT
- Other topics (to be advised)

18. Symposium - Taxonomy
- ZooBank
- Species schema

19. Poster & Computer Demonstration Session
- Topics to be advised

20. TDWG Business Meeting
- Election of Officers
- Other business

Friday 20 October

21. Symposium - Building biodiversity data applications
- Integrating & sharing biotic information
- Other topics (to be advised)

22. Symposium - Building biodiversity data applications
- "Boxed" solutions
- Other topics (to be advised)

23. Symposium - Building biodiversity data applications
- Topics to be advised

24. Symposium - Building biodiversity data applications
- Topics to be advised

Saturday 21 October

25. Symposium - Building biodiversity data applications
- Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN)
- Other topics (to be advised)

26. Symposium - Building biodiversity data applications
- Conservation

27. Report on Subgroup activities during the week & roadmaps

28. Summary of Meeting

Sunday 22 October

29. Subgroup Session

30. Subgroup Session

31. Subgroup Session

32. Subgroup Session

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Last Modified: 21 June 2006