TDWG is
pleased to announce the commencement of the Public Review of the TDWG Access
Protocol for Information Retrieval TAPIR
- a method for sharing biodiversity information. Since being officially
put forward as a draft, TAPIR has undergone a peer review, a review by the TDWG
Executive and multiple revisions.
Open Invitation: We invite all who may contribute
and/or consume biodiversity information to examine this proposed standard
during the Public Review period from 10th September through at least
until the 10th November 2009.
How to Participate: You can participate in the review
of TAPIR in two ways; either through lodging a comment through TDWG’s
Open Journal System, or you can take the Microsoft Word document and edit it
with track changes and resubmit it to the TAPIR Wiki space.
To post
comments to the Open Journal System (that can be anonymous), go to http://www.tdwg.org/stdtrack/article/view/449/39. On
the right hand side of the page is a link to add a comment.
At the
previous URL, you can also download a copy of the Microsoft Word format
specification. Once you have downloaded it, turn on track changes and
make your notes and comments. You can then submit that file at http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAPIR/TapirReview.
Please DO NOT add any comments to the Wiki page, only via the OJS page.
Questions
about the process should be directed to me at piers(at)gaiaresources.com.au.
Please
share this opportunity for public comment and review with others you think may
be interested.
Acknowledgements: I’d like to thank the
authors, the anonymous reviewers and the members of the Executive Committee who
reviewed the standard. In addition, the guidance of Lee Belbin through
the review process has been invaluable and greatly appreciated.
Links expanded:
TAPIR Specification in HTML - http://www.tdwg.org/dav/subgroups/tapir/1.0/docs/tdwg_tapir_specification_2009-09-08.htm
Official
TAPIR Website - http://www.tdwg.org/subgroups/tapir/
Various TAPIR software packages - http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAPIR/TapirSoftware
Subscribe to tdwg-tag - http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag
Related Links:
TDWG: http://www.tdwg.org/
Other TDWG Standards: http://www.tdwg.org/standards/
TDWG Standards Track
(in OJS): http://www.tdwg.org/stdtrack/index
Apologies if
you receive this multiple times from various mailing lists.
Sincerely,
Piers
Higgs, Review Manager
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