DwC

Currently only ABCD and BioCASe can be used for providing data to our data portal. Since several GGBN partners use IPT and DarwinCore-Archive to provide their data to GBIF we now are going to create and test a DNA and tissue extension for DarwinCore-Archive for GGBN. We plan to enable the use of DarwinCore-Archive in parallel to ABCDDNA in the near future. We will post news and results of this ongoing process here.

Upcoming/Planned workshops

• TDWG 2013, Florence: Create and Implement a draft DarwinCore DNA and Tissue extension

Workshops

• DarwinCore workshop, Copenhagen: Discussing the use of DarwinCore and DarwinCore-Archive for MaterialSample-related records
• TDWG 2012, Beijing: Discussing a DarwinCore DNA and Tissue extension for GGBN
• 2012, Oxford: Hackathon-Workshop on Darwin Core and MIxS Standards Alignment (February 2012) (Meeting report: SIGS (2012) 7:166-170 DOI:10.4056/sigs.3166513)