The Public Review of the proposed Darwin Core Standard, which began 11 July 2009 has ended today (23 September) with the posting of the response to the Public Review http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm. The Terms may be found at http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms and the code site http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/, which worked well in combination with this list, tdwg-content, made tracking and fixing of problems very easy.
The next step in this process will be to seek ratification of the Darwin Core as an official TDWG Standard from the TDWG Exec Committee. John Wieczorek (MVZ) and his co-authors Markus Döring (GBIF), Renato De Giovanni (CRIA), Tim Robertson (GBIF), Dave Vieglais (KUNHM) have done an outstanding job in pulling together everything and surviving the process of bringing this pivotal standard to fruition. It has been my great privilege to help shepherd this process as Review Manager. I would also like to thank those who jumped into the fray (or started the fray) during the Public Review, offering their opinions, expertise, experiences as tests to the system.
Attached (if it makes it through) is a summary of the changes and issues left to address in the future and why.
Again, many thanks to all, particularly John Wieczorek --be sure to stand him the beverage of his choice when you see him!
Gail Review Manager, Darwin Core
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Gail E. Kampmeier Sr. Research Entomologist Illinois Natural History Survey Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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