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<p class=MsoPlainText>Dear TDWG Members and Friends<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>There are two current issues that you may be able to help
us with. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>One of our members noted that the Wikipedia entry for
Darwin Core was out of date and possibly about to be deleted. Markus Döring subsequently
added an excellent update for DwC. Thanks Markus! I then thought that it would
be really helpful for our community to have similar useful entries for ABCD,
NCD, SDD (BD), TAPIR, TCS...? Donald has also raised the need for a better
introduction to Biodiversity Informatics, and there are other topics that would
be good to see an entry for. I've just done a minor update on my original TDWG
entry but more input would be good to see. This relates to the second issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>We have had a request from a biology historian about a
history of TDWG. A few of us are unaware of anything written specifically about
TDWG's history, but do have links to various past meetings at <a
href="http://www.tdwg.org/about-tdwg/past-meetings/">http://www.tdwg.org/about-tdwg/past-meetings/</a>,
but we are missing 1987-1997. I've put the request through to Frank Bisby, Jim
Croft, Adrian Rissone and Stan Blum. Frank and Jim have some paper material
that may be able to be scanned, but if anyone is aware of anything that may be
useful for this, please let me know. From what I can tell, an uncensored of
TDWG would make a nice read. <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Lee <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Lee Belbin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>TDWG Secretariat<o:p></o:p></p>
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