To Conveners and TAG members coming to TDWG in Florence,

For preliminary discussion, an agenda/outline for the TAG meeting on Sunday. I don't expect that the meeting will necessarily unfold this way - it is just a starting point.  Tomorrow, I will find a more appropriate place to put it.

greg

Grand Mediterraneo 3pm Sunday 27 October

TAG at TDWG

• Scope of this meeting 
• Allocated time slot on Thursday
  • VoMaG report
• Informal meetings during the week?

TAG terms of reference (context & review)

• Charter
• Governance
• More than a mail list?
• Constitution
  
• Documentation
  • Wiki
  • Issue management
  • Update TDWG TAG pages
• Reporting

A TDWG Architecture 

• Expression (vision)
  • (a) Development, interpretation and maintenance of principles for a biodiversity informatics architecture
    • WG governance, 
    • standards interoperability, 
    • collaboration, 
    • cross group issues and networking
      
  • (or a+) Development (reuse) of a TDWG architecture
    • Building Blocks, 
    • Common language
    • Domain Model?
• How do we make it work?
  • Simple
  • Agile
  • Intentional vs emergent
  • Technology agnostic
• How to test it?
• Where do we start?
  • Status/review of current framework and standards
  • Existing and developing "Cores"
  • Plea around basisOfRecord
  • BCO
  • The TDWG "ontology"
    

The TAG working group reports

• DwC RDF
• VoMaG

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Greg Whitbread
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Australian National Herbarium
+61 2 62509482
ghw@anbg.gov.au