Dear TDWG EC and Secretariat,
Dear GSC board and Secretariat,
We would like to present the outputs of the Sustainable
DwC-MIxS Interoperability Task Group convened under GBWG [1;
https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/MIxS/].
The final draft of our report is attached to this email and is
also viewable here:
https://tinyurl.com/a9khfya6
In this report, we include a proposed
MoU between TDWG and the
GSC to ensure sustainable interoperability between DwC and
MIxS.
We hope that you will consider our TG report/outputs in your
upcoming meetings and will provide feedback where necessary,
which will be appended to the report for consideration of
future TGs. In particular, feedback on the MoU supporting its
adoption would be valuable to the community.
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Yours sincerely,
Raïssa Meyer and Pier Luigi Buttigieg
[1] This TG brought together experts from the Biodiversity
Information Standards (TDWG) and the Genomic Standards
Consortium (GSC) - alongside key external stakeholders (OBIS,
GBIF, Pensoft, etc.) - to develop an approach to promote
sustainable interoperability between the Minimum Information
about any (x) Sequence (MIxS; maintained by the GSC) and the
Darwin Core (DwC; maintained by TDWG) specifications. We 1)
generated, and internally reviewed, a fine-grained mapping of
DwC to MIxS in a standard format (SSSOM), 2) implemented new
extensions to DwC, and 3) developed recommendations on how to
expand on and sustain these. We have also identified areas of
concern, which are in need of further attention and follow-up
TGs. (
https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/MIxS/)