Dear TDWG Member,

GBIF has identified metadata as a core component of the new distributed architecture model it will be developing as it seeks to scale up by orders of magnitude the numbers of records available through its network.

We are planning to run a workshop early in 2008 to begin the process of defining a metadata profile for biodiversity datasets. As a precursor to the workshop, and to help identify and draw potential contributors together, we have created a metadata wiki on the GBIF portal. You will find some pages there to seed the discussions and you are invited to contribute to the wiki if this area is of interest to you.

http://wiki.gbif.org/dadiwiki/wikka.php?wakka=CategoryMetadata

Best regards,

Éamonn

________________________________________________________________ Éamonn Ó Tuama, Ph.D. (eotuama@gbif.org), Senior Programme Officer for Data Access & Database Interoperability (DADI), Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480