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Public review of new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for Darwin Core
September 17, 2025
A 90-day period for public review and comment opens 17 September 2025 and will continue through at least 16 December...
TDWG - ICZN Sign MOU
July 08, 2025
TDWG and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature sign an MOU
Audiovisual Core public review
May 16, 2025
Public review opened for new and changed terms of the Audiovisual Core.
Call for comments on Taxonomic Concept Schema V2
April 04, 2025
The new version of TCS is a vocabulary standard, expressed in RDF rather than XML schema, and covers terms for...
2025 Working Sessions for TDWG Interest/Task/Maintenance Groups
March 31, 2025
Working sessions are virtual and open to all. Join to learn about our standards work in progress.
Community help desk for Darwin Core public review
March 09, 2025
Please join us for a community help desk session for the Darwin Core public review!
Public review of proposed changes to Darwin Core
February 24, 2025
Public comment period now open for minimum 30 days
Call for Executive Committee nominations (2025–2026)
November 05, 2024
Nominations are open for positions on the Executive Committee for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Nomination deadline is 15 November 2024....
Creation of the Sensitive Species Extension Task Group of the Darwin Core Maintenance Group
June 12, 2024
Tasks Groups are open to everyone, please join!
Working Sessions for TDWG Interest/Task/Maintenance Groups
February 15, 2024
Working sessions are open to all. Join to learn about our standards work in progress.
Public review of the Latimer Core begins
December 08, 2023
Public comment period open until 19 January 2024
Call for Executive Committee nominations (2024–2025)
October 06, 2023
Nominations are open for positions on the Executive Committee for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Nomination deadline is 10 November 2023....
Public review of Humboldt Extension to Darwin Core
September 07, 2023
The public review and comment period for terms comprising the Humboldt Extension is now open for a minimum of 30...
Public review of proposed changes to Darwin Core by Material Sample Task Group
June 21, 2023
Public comment period now open for minimum 30 days
Audiovisual Core Controlled Vocabularies for Views
May 10, 2023
Two controlled vocabularies for “Views” have been approved and enhance the Audiovisual Core.
Publication opportunity in Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)
May 02, 2023
Publish for free your article in Biodiversity Data Journal
Celebrating Connie Rinaldo's life
May 02, 2023
Celebration of Connie Rinaldo’s life at BHL annual meeting
Public review of proposed changes to Darwin Core
February 12, 2023
Public comment period now open for minimum 30 days
Audubon Core controlled vocabularies for views
November 01, 2022
Public comment opened for subjectPart and subjectOrientation controlled vocabularies.
Interest and Task Group working sessions
October 27, 2022
Working sessions for TDWG Interest and Task Groups will meet 7-10 November.
Call for Executive Committee nominations (2023–2024)
August 10, 2022
Nominations are open for positions on the Executive Committee for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Deadline 7 November 2022.
Empowering Biodiversity Research conference II
May 30, 2022
TDWG had a booth at the Empowering Biodiversity Research II conference in Tervuren.
BiCIKL project wraps up the first year of integrating FAIR data on biodiversity
May 05, 2022
First in-person meeting in Sevilla for BiCIKL annual conference!
Transnational access call for SYNTHESYS+
April 27, 2022
Call 4 is NOW OPEN and will be the last Transnational access call for SYNTHESYS+!
TDWG vision and mission statements open for review
February 23, 2022
New TDWG vision and mission statements open for review
An allegation of copyright infringement
January 26, 2022
TDWG gets an expensive lesson in copyright infringement.
Audubon Core term change proposals
January 10, 2022
Open comment period for three term-change proposals begins 15 January.
Status update on controlled vocabulary translations
December 15, 2021
Controlled vocabulary translations are available for use!
TDWG members of the Executive Committee participated in the BiCIKL hackathon in Meise
November 29, 2021
BiCIKL hacked in teams at a week-long event to test interoperability between their infrastructures.
Announcing Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL)
October 29, 2021
New BiCIKL project to build a freeway between pieces of biodiversity knowledge.
Interest and Task Group working sessions
October 22, 2021
Working sessions for TDWG Interest and Task Groups will meet Wednesdays and Thursdays through the month of November.
Audubon Core maintenance proposals
June 17, 2021
Public comment opens on proposals to enhance Audubon Core with terms for Region of Interest (ROI)
Darwin Core maintenance proposals and webinars
June 09, 2021
Public review of Darwin Core maintenance proposals ends
Public review of Darwin Core maintenance proposals
May 21, 2021
Public review of Darwin Core maintenance proposals open
Final review of Chronometric Age Extension to Darwin Core
February 11, 2021
The Chronometric Age Task Group has completed a round of public commentary for the Chronometric Age vocabulary extension to Darwin...
Public review of Chronometric Age Extension to Darwin Core
November 24, 2020
The Chronometric Age Task Group is pleased to invite everyone with an interest in chronometric age data to participate in...
Call for Executive Committee nominations (2021-2022)
October 16, 2020
Nominations are open for positions on the Executive Committee for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).
Public review of GGBN and ABCD-EFG Begins
July 01, 2020
30-day public reviews open for GGBN and ABCD-EFG.
Biodiversity Summit 2020 POSTPONED
March 20, 2020
The 2020 annual conference for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) has been postponed until 2021. In response to the coronavirus pandemic,...
Biodiversity Summit 2020 call for abstracts
February 11, 2020
The 2020 annual conference for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is being organized in collaboration with iDigBio, GBIF, and the National...
BHL program manager position announcement
November 08, 2019
Position announcement for Program manager for the Biodiversity Heritage Library at Smithsonian Libraries.
Call for Executive Committee nominations (2020-2021)
September 30, 2019
Nominations are open for positions on the Executive Committee for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).
Election of Executive officers opens
October 11, 2018
The election of TDWG officers is now open. Ballots have been mailed to members in good standing.
Call for Executive Committee nominations (2019-2020)
July 31, 2018
Nominations are open for positions on the Executive Committee for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).
Call for Tender: Website Development
June 04, 2017
TDWG seek a contract with a motivated and experienced web developer to revise the TDWG.org website.
TDWG community support fund – Call for proposals 2017
February 06, 2017
TDWG Interest and Task Groups undertake the core business of our organization: developing the standards and guidelines that enable us...
Final TDWG 2016 program
December 01, 2016
The full program (including the overview and posters) of the TDWG 2016 conference program is now available (last revised 1...