[tdwg] [tdwg-tag] another poke about Audubon Core status

Tim Robertson trobertson at gbif.org
Mon Sep 22 14:46:57 CEST 2014


Hi Dan,

Thanks for your offer.  

As far as I recall, the TDWG executive decided at the last meeting to move onto a whole new platform and put contractor money aside to make it happen.
I’m reluctant to point you at the tangled mess of the current system when I suspect it is to be replaced anyway.  It really is a convoluted mess of Typo3 plugins, which try and keep a bunch of backend systems in sync and dues to bugs in there it does not work as expected.  I really don’t think it is something you want to get into, but I sympathise that the TDWG site is broken and no-one is maintaining it… a simpler vanilla CMS solution that even requires more manual text editing etc. will be a far more manageable solution in my opinion.

@TDWG Executive folks - is it still the intention to contract out and do a basic CMS site?  
If not, I’ll try and pull up the code but I’d need your approval to get him a DB dump as it holds user credentials / subscriptions etc. Please can you advise us?  Anything we can do to help?

Thanks,
Tim


On 19 Sep 2014, at 23:05, Stoner, Dan <dstoner at acis.ufl.edu> wrote:

> I see in the tdwg-tag mailing list archives that the status of the Audubon Core Standard has been discussed recently:
> 
> http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag/2014-June/002558.html
> 
> 
> So consider this another poke about getting the web site updated with the official status of the Standard.  
> 
> If there is anything I can do to facilitate the web site update, please let me know (as in, I am volunteering to hack code or whatever is needed).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan Stoner
> iDigBio / ACIS Laboratory
> University of Florida
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