First meeting to discuss a common TDWG standards architecture

[Roger Hyam]

The first meeting to discuss a common TDWG standards architecture will
take place on 11-13th April in Edinburgh.  This meeting addresses one of
the agreed outcomes of the TDWG Infrastructure Project. There was strong
endorsement of the need to seek a common architecture that would relate
the different standards developed by TDWG to each other and to those
produced by third parties.

You can read about the meeting at:

http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TAG/TagMeeting1

and a preliminary agenda at:

http://www.tdwg.hyam.net/twiki/bin/view/TAG/TagMeeting1Agenda

This meeting will produce a report containing clear statements about the
current technical relationships of TDWG standards and  recommendations
for an effective and integrated  standard's architecture. This  report
will be presented to the TDWG  Executive Committee and then widely
circulated.

If you have any ideas you would like raised at the meeting please either:

   1. Post them to the TAG mailing list
(http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag_lists.tdwg.org).
   2. Send them directly to me.
   3. Approach one of the other attendees - who are listed on the pages
mentioned above.

 All input into this process would be most appreciated.

All the best,

Roger

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 Roger Hyam
 Technical Architect
 Taxonomic Databases Working Group
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 http://www.tdwg.org
 roger at tdwg.org
 +44 1578 722782
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