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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#202020;background:white">The Audubon Core Maintenance Group is advancing six proposals to update terms in the Audubon Core. A 30 day period for public comment is now open. It closes at the end of
September. Three of the proposals create controlled vocabularies that were envisioned during the initial formulation of the Audubon Core, but were incomplete when the vocabulary was ratified. Three proposals are for adding new terms to Audubon Core that are
important for biodiversity sound descriptions (i.e., metadata for biodiversity sound files). To view the proposals, visit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftdwg.us9.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D50f3cc44307841383062ca0d6%26id%3Dfa47bcb960%26e%3D5917438abb&data=02%7C01%7Csteve.baskauf%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cb2cc96b38ea74b7d7d8108d84d7f58f9%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637344556638875380&sdata=ESgvRambH0ThFhrxyxdsEoqDTC9fIh9DQFR3GB033k8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#007C89">https://github.com/tdwg/ac/milestone/2</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#202020;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#202020;background:white">and
view the individual proposal issues and their associated documents. To comment on the proposals, leave comments on the relevant proposal issue. If you are unable to create GitHub comments, send them to the Maintenance Group convener at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu?subject=Audubon%20Core%20Comment" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#007C89">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#007C89;text-decoration:none"> </span></span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#202020;background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#202020;background:white">Steve Baskauf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#202020;background:white">Audubon Core Maintenance Group convener on behalf of the group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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