OFFICIAL Hi Everyone, I second Andrea’s fabulous suggestion! Unfortunately, I am also under an employment dark cloud with my role finishing in February 2027, and I think it is unlikely that I will have leave to travel to Canada (although never say never), but I strongly agree that this would be a really useful and engaging session at the conference. I am happy to commence an abstract around the theme of centralisation and access to pertinent vocabularies. Perhaps just a session inviting people to showcase methods and repositories would be a sufficient invitation for the session, with a preamble about the need for greater access and collaboration on these, especially for biologists who aren’t necessarily data specialists. Thoughts? Best wishes, Kathryn ––––– [Image] Kathryn Hall BSc (Hons I), PhD Scientific Product Manager Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA) Atlas of Living Australia National Collections & Marine Infrastructure, CSIRO Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD 4102 GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601 E kathryn.hall@csiro.au<mailto:kathryn.hall@csiro.au> T +61 (07) 3833 5567<tel:+61738335567> M +61 (0) 402 165 901<tel:+61402165901> I www.arga.org.au<http://www.arga.org.au/> I www.ala.org.au<http://www.ala.org.au/> I http://www.csiro.au/Research/Collections From: ANDREA TARALLO <andrea.tarallo@cnr.it> Date: Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 6:47 pm To: tdwg-vocab@lists.tdwg.org <tdwg-vocab@lists.tdwg.org> Subject: [tdwg-vocab] Session proposal for Living Data 2027? You don't often get email from andrea.tarallo@cnr.it. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Hi all, after the lively and interesting discussion we had at the TDWG Unconference last month, I was wondering if we should propose a session at Living Data 2027. My contract will end in Jan 2027, with any possibilities of renewal at the moment, so I can't guarantee my participation in Canada, but I'm happy to help draft the session abstract. Best wishes everyone, Andrea [cid:e97f2ebd-72e9-4741-8b30-dd23bce5218c] [facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> [twitter]<https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> [instagram]<https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> [linkedin]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Andrea Tarallo CNR, ISTITUTO DI RICERCA SUGLI ECOSISTEMI TERRESTRI - LECCE Cell. 3404698911 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2749-8588 andrea.tarallo@cnr.it Strada Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, snc, 73100 Lecce