There is a growing number of biodiversity Web applications being built using the Drupal content management system (http://groups.drupal.org/node/30444 ). The nature of Drupal's modular framework lends itself to collaborative development. I would like to invite all interested in building or using Drupal for managing biodiversity data to join the Drupal discussion group Bioinformatics: http://groups.drupal.org/bioinformatics .
Up and coming discussions are on improvements to handling bibliographic information: http://groups.drupal.org/node/35334
If there proves to be enough interest then I hope we can pursue a 'common data model' for biodiversity data in Drupal. Essentially building common base content-types that follow the standards outlined by TDWG and compatible with or possibly even make direct use of EDIT's CDM framework: http://groups.drupal.org/node/35338
Please invite any interested colleagues to join the discussions.
Kind regards, Lisa
Lisa Walley