TDWG List subscribers:
The 2002 TDWG meeting will be held October 18-22, in Campinas, Brasil. Our
host will be the Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)
[Reference Center on Environmental Information] -- Vanderlei Perez Canhos,
President & Director. The TDWG meeting will be held (concurrently) with a
Species 2000 meeting (Oct 19-20). In addition, each organization will host
an all-day symposium (sequentially) on the following two days (Oct
21-22). Subgroups, working groups, and interest groups may meet (as
necessary) from one to three days before the main meetings. Satellite
events, such as training workshops or meetings of related organizations may
be scheduled in the days following the symposia. (See an overview of the
schedule, below.)
The main TDWG meeting will consist of:
- Contributed papers
- Subgroup reports (progress and plans)
- Business meeting
- Discussion and planning of future activities
The TDWG Symposium:
The recently established Global Biodiversity Information Facility
(http://www.gbif.org/) has already begun activities that will profoundly
influence the acquisition, management, and dissemination of biodiversity
information. GBIF-sponsored activities, in turn, will highlight the need
for standards that will guide the work of potential data providers,
integrators, and developers of analysis services. To ensure that TDWG's
work supports and compliments GBIF activities, TDWG will hold a symposium
dedicated to elaborating a framework for interoperability and identifying
the (missing) standards that will be critical to building the
infrastructure. The program is still to be determined, but is likely to
include: reviews of GBIF activities and broader trends in information
technology (e.g., XML technologies and web services), position papers, and
discussion.
This year's meeting promises to be informative, important to the
development of TDWG, and fun(!).
I hope to see you there.
Stan Blum
Chair, TDWG Executive Committee
sblum(a)calacademy.org
TDWG and Species 2000 Meetings; Campinas, Brasil; October 18-22, 2002
SCHEDULE:
Oct 16 (Wed): working- and subgroups (tentative)
Oct 17 (Thu): working- and subgroups (tentative)
Oct 18 (Fri): working- and subgroups
Oct 19 (Sat): Sp2000 & TDWG meetings (concurrently)
Oct 20 (Sun): Sp2000 & TDWG meetings (concurrently)
Oct 21 (Mon): Species 2000 Symposium -- Catalog of Life
Oct 22 (Tue): TDWG Symposium -- Framework for Interoperability
Oct 23 (Wed): Satellite events (to be determined)
Oct 24 (Thu): Satellite events (to be determined)
