TDWG was founded in 1985 as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group; the first meeting took place on September 28–30, 1985, at the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva in Switzerland.[1] The organisation was formed as an international collaboration to promote the wider and more effective dissemination of information about biological organisms. Its name was changed to Taxonomic Databases Working Group for Plant Sciences in 1986. It was accepted as a commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences in October 1988. The name changed to International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences in 1988. Initially focusing on plant taxonomic databases, in 1994 it expanded its scope to cover all taxonomic databases and changed its name to International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases.[1]
In 2006 the group decided to change their name to emphasise their focus was on standards for sharing biodiversity data, rather than on taxonomy or the databases themselves. However, they wished to retain TDWG for historical continuity, so the name became Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).[1]
Activitiesedit
TDWG organises an annual meeting for its members. The organization was founded at the first meeting in Geneva in 1985.
The association currently:
Develops, adopts, and promotes standards and guidelines for the recording, discovery, exchange, and integration of data about organisms,
Promotes the use of these standards and guidelines through the most appropriate and effective means, and
biodiversity, information, standards, tdwg, originally, called, taxonomic, databases, working, group, profit, scientific, educational, association, that, works, develop, open, standards, exchange, biodiversity, data, facilitating, biodiversity, informatics, af. Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG originally called the Taxonomic Databases Working Group is a non profit scientific and educational association that works to develop open standards for the exchange of biodiversity data facilitating biodiversity informatics It is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences It is best known for the Darwin Core standard for exchanging biodiversity which has been used by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to collect millions of biological observations from museums and other organizations from around the world Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG FormationSeptember 30 1985 38 years ago 1985 09 30 Founded atGeneva SwitzerlandSubsidiariesTDWG EuropeWebsitewww wbr tdwg wbr orgFormerly calledTaxonomic Databases Working Group Contents 1 History 2 Activities 3 References 4 External linksHistory editTDWG was founded in 1985 as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group the first meeting took place on September 28 30 1985 at the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva in Switzerland 1 The organisation was formed as an international collaboration to promote the wider and more effective dissemination of information about biological organisms Its name was changed to Taxonomic Databases Working Group for Plant Sciences in 1986 It was accepted as a commission of the International Union of Biological Sciences in October 1988 The name changed to International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences in 1988 Initially focusing on plant taxonomic databases in 1994 it expanded its scope to cover all taxonomic databases and changed its name to International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases 1 In 2006 the group decided to change their name to emphasise their focus was on standards for sharing biodiversity data rather than on taxonomy or the databases themselves However they wished to retain TDWG for historical continuity so the name became Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG 1 Activities editTDWG organises an annual meeting for its members The organization was founded at the first meeting in Geneva in 1985 The association currently Develops adopts and promotes standards and guidelines for the recording discovery exchange and integration of data about organisms Promotes the use of these standards and guidelines through the most appropriate and effective means and Acts as a forum for discussion about biodiversity informatics standardsThis organization publishes conference proceedings in the Biodiversity Information Science and Standards BISS published by Pensoft References edit a b c TDWG History TDWG Archived from the original on 2017 08 03 Retrieved 2016 12 07 External links editOfficial website nbsp This article about a biology organization is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG amp oldid 1186647932, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
