The Theme of the Symposium is Building Biodiversity Data Applications
- From Nomenclators to managing inconsistent taxonomies (incl. Zoobank, IPNI, etc.)
- Species Banks and the taxonomic work process (incl. EDIT)
- Integrating & sharing biotic information
- "Boxed" Solutions
- Applications and Standards for Invasive Species
- Applications and Standards for Conservation
Additional Themes for the Meeting will include (in no particular order):
- The new TDWG Infrastructure
- New and emerging standards
- Integrating standards
- Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs)
- Imaging
- Ontologies & semantics
- Data representation languages (UML, BNF, RDF, XML)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
TDWG Subgroups
The Meeting will also include presentation of the work of TDWG Subgroups/Interest Groups, with working sessions during the week. For details of current TDWG Subgroups please visit the main TDWG web site.
