Dear SDD participants,

The group has been dormant for a while. The minutes of the meeting in Canberra and Sydney were prepared already a while ago, but had asked several participants to check them, since we made substantial progress there. This took some time, and then I did not manage to get back to SDD from my own work on the GLOPP project.

Anyway, the SDD pages: http://160.45.63.11/Projects/TDWG-SDD/index.html

are updated, and - contain the minutes (rather long "minutes") - the xml example document and - xml-schema elaborated in March, and - Information on the upcoming TDWG meeting in Brazil.

I realize that participation may be difficult for some interested, but I do hope many can come. We have decided to split the time into 2 days for more theoretical basical discussions (14/15) and two days for practical work on the schema (16/17) with input from those involved in development.

Please send me any corrections regarding the minutes and I will update them!

I hope to see you in October

best wishes

Gregor---------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn@bba.de) Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) Koenigin-Luise-Str. 19 Tel: +49-30-8304-2220 14195 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49-30-8304-2203

Often wrong but never in doubt!