Hello there,

As you probably know, TDWG are devoting a special session to the Species Profile Model at the upcoming Bratislava conference. It is scheduled for 08.30 to 10.00 on Wed 19 Sept and we hope to fill the slot with up to six short (10-15 min) presentations. Marcus has already agreed to talk about the modelling aspects of SPM on which he has been working (see the wiki for more info: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/SPM/InstanceExamples).

You are invited to make suggestions for contributions to this session. Any aspect can be considered - vocabularies, use cases, relationship to other species profile schemas, etc. Or do you know of a potential contribution from another TDWG member outside this immediate subtask group? I intend to mail a request for contributions to the wider TDWG community later in the week but, in the meantime, would welcome your input.

Best regards,

Éamonn ________________________________________________________________ Éamonn Ó Tuama, Ph.D. (eotuama@gbif.org), Senior Programme Officer for Data Access & Database Interoperability (DADI), Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480