SDD XML discussion in Sydney

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I'm interested Bob

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert A. (Bob) Morris" <ram at CS.UMB.EDU>
> To: <TDWG-SDD at USOBI.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:57 AM
> Subject: SDD XML discussion in Sydney
>
>
> > I found last year that I was torn between the accessions working group
> > and the sdd working group, so
> > I wonder if anyone is interested in about a half-day pre-meeting
> > discussion of XML schemas/DTD for descriptive data on the afternoon of
> > November 8, to continue in the regular meeting. Based on our own
> > experience in our Electronic Field Guide project, my current belif is
> > that descriptive data will generally need much smaller schemas than
> > accession data, largely because
> >
> > (a). the latter is likely to have tags for a lot of stuff descriptive
> > pages need anyway and (b). mostly what is needed is some stuff to be
> > able to provide data typing information to characters. XSchema is
> > quite good at this.
> >
> > Because of (a) I will lobby in the accessions group for a clean
> > separation of markup that's about biological and spatio/temporal
> > concepts from markup that's about records. It may be that events,
> > e.g. collection events is another area of overlap. Indeed, one focus
> > of a premeeting might be to take the output of the accessions work and
> > see what overlap there is in desired markup.
> >
> > Bob Morris
>