TDWG-SDD XML proposals of Kevin Thiele

[Robert A. (Bob) Morris]

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The Taxonomic Working Group subgroup on the Structure of Descriptive
Data (TDWG-SDD) of the International Union of Biological Sciences
maintains an email discussion list on which there has been recent
discussion of proposals of Kevin Thiele to formulate XML
representations of a minimal controlled vocabulary for taxonomic
descriptive data. The material at
http://www.cs.umb.edu/efg/ThieleDraft/thiele_0_3.html illustrates our
efforts to draft an XML Schema from Thiele's draft proposal version
0.3 ("TDD0.3") and illustrate its utility with simple
applications manipulating a taxonomic treatment.

Some of the pieces are best viewed with MSIE5, but any browser should
do.

We'll be talking about this work at the TDWG meeting in Frankfurt
November 10-12.

Bob Morris
Jun Wan