We have done a fair amount of due diligence in recent years to stay abreast of the wider informatics community. We still have an MOA with OGC. We were even members of OASIS for a year. The whole LSID "thing" was an attempt to follow the lead of the bio(=molecular)informatics community. So I don't accept that we are self-contained, sitting awkwardly (narcissistic), within the wider informatics community.
With appropriate cautions duly noted (re Bob Morris, Jonathan Rees, Matt Jones [a few years ago]), we ARE moving in this direction (semantic web, RDF, etc.), and have been since about 2006. ... Just not very fast :-|
-Stan
On 11/15/10 2:33 PM, "Jim Croft" jim.croft@gmail.com wrote:
But the criticism of TDWG sitting a bit awkwardly and self-contained in the wider standards framework is a valid one and something we are working to address. I have always assumed this is one of the guiding principles of TDWG.
I prefer the analogy of motivating jelly tpo to stay nailed to the wall. :)
jim