[tdwg-content] official home of the "TDWG GUID Applicability Statement" ?
Steve Baskauf
steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu
Fri Sep 30 15:36:46 CEST 2016
Dan,
I think that you should consider what you found at
https://github.com/tdwg/guid-as
as the authoritative source. I believe that the TDWG GitHub repository
is now considered to be the place where the permanent, official copies
of standards are stored. The various links at wiki.tdwg.org and
www.tdwg.org are probably holdovers from the old TDWG website that have
not been cleaned up and made current. I put the pdf version located at
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/pages/guid-applicability-final-2011-01.pdf
online as a way for people to view the document directly in a browser
without having to unzip an archive and own a copy of Microsoft Word
(which used to be the only way to look at the document). It should be
exactly the same as the final version of the standard that you see on
the GitHub site. However, it does not have any official standing - it's
something that I just did for convenience.
We do not currently have a ratified Standards Documentation
Specification standard, but we probably will soon, and when we do, it is
likely that it will specify that standards documents should be easily
accessible and viewable without requiring any software that isn't freely
available for free. In that case, it would be unacceptable for the
final version of a standard to be published as a Word document.
Presumably, we would go back to the older standards and make sure that
each one is viewable as HTML, MarkDown, or PDF so that they could easily
be viewable in a browser.
Steve
Stoner, Dan wrote:
> I found this:
>
> http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/pages/guid-applicability-final-2011-01.pdf
>
> but have not found the same document at tdwg.org.
>
>
> It is not in the list of documents on this page:
>
> http://www.tdwg.org/activities/guid/documents/
>
> (Feature request... if possible add some kind of "date" column. to the GUID Documents and Reports table).
>
>
>
> I notice that the "GUID" section of the wiki that is linked from the main page does not seem to exist.
>
> http://wiki.tdwg.org/GUID/
>
> or
>
> http://www.tdwg.org/activities/guid/guid-wiki/
>
>
>
> I think maybe I found the Word Document source in github...
>
> https://github.com/tdwg/guid-as
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Stoner
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