[SEEK-Taxon] Draft TES

[Robert A. Morris]

UBIF is a relatively new thing, though it arose from efforts starting 
about six months ago between ABCD and TDWG/SDD to unify some common 
functionality. At an SDD meeting in Berlin in April, a more formal 
separation began to emerge.

SDD is discussed at http://efgblade.cs.umb.edu/twiki/bin/view/SDD/WebHome

SDD and probably UBIF will be proposed as TDWG standards at the October 
meeting in Christ Church, as, I understand, will be the SEEK TaxonNames 
Schema. This could entail that the latter wants to reconcile with UBIF, 
although possibly this is implied by use of ABCDNameTypes. Still, 
somebody should contemplate that issue, because I don't know how closely 
Jessie and Trevor, who both attended the Berlin meeting, are following 
UBIF (nor do I know whether there is concensus about submitting it to 
TDWG this year...)

Bob


Richard Pyle wrote:

> Many thanks, Bob!
> 
> 
>>[...]
> 
> Thanks -- I'll check it out.  Right now, I'm still enthusastically looking
> over the UBIF links you provided (everytime I turn around it seems there's a
> whole world of stuff "out there" that is highly relevant to what I do on a
> daily basis, but that I somehow managed to miss althogether!!).  I'm also
> still getting used to the whole Wiki thing.
> 
> [...]

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