TDWG 2020: Introduction to TDWG (1)
Channel: Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG
Date: 22/09/2020

Ever wonder what Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is or does? How can you become involved? Join us to find out and get a bit of background about both the Working Groups Meetings as well as the Symposia and Discussion sessions in TDWG 2020.

Session Type: Plenary overview & discussion

Organizers and presenters: Holly Little, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA; Deborah Paul, iDigBio, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; Paula Zermoglio, VertNet, Bariloche, Argentina; James Macklin, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Mareike Petersen, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany; Elycia Wallis, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Melbourne Australia

This session contains four presentations and a question and answer session. Start times for each presentation are below.
0:00 Welcome, logistics and expected conduct
1:16 Ely Wallis: Welcome to Intro to TDWG 
1:37 Session outline
2:13 Presenters for this session and session plan
3:34 What is TDWG?
4:45 TDWG Standards
5:12 Who is TDWG?
5:39 TDWG Executive 2020 including regional representatives
6:44 Interest and Task Groups, TDWG members, TDWG community
8:31 Conferences
9:04 BISS journal
10:20 Q&A session
10:53 End Q&A (begin switching speakers)

14:28 Mareike Petersen: TDWG Standards and Process
14:41 What is a Standard?
15:43 What is a standard used for?
16:35 Where to they come from?
17:09 How to create a (TDWG) standard
18:47 Standard Review and Ratification
19:20 Standard Maintenance
19:57 Main TDWG standards
20:54 Other TDWG standards
21:40 One standard, several portals
22:52 Standards sessions this week (2020)
24:55 Q&A session
26:54 End Q&A (begin switching speakers)

27:18 Paula Zermoglio: Overview of Interest and Task Groups
27:25 Definitions of Interest and Task Groups
29:38 Interest and Task Group Process
31:52 TDWG Interest Groups
33:14 Website pages and GitHub repositories 
34:55 Coordination and oversight of IG/TGs
36:08 Schedule of Working Sessions (2020)
36:50 Get in contact
37:42 Q&A session
38:32 End Q&A (begin switching speakers)

39:23 James Macklin: TDWG in the "Big Picture" 
42:18 Biodiversity Informatics
43:52 New data types and evolving standards
43:52 Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO)
44:34 Biodversity Knowledge Graph
46:32 Globally Distributed Systems
48:04 Alliance for Biodiversity Knowledge
49:35 Conference Theme: integrating data from local to global solutions
51:34 Conference 2020 Overview

55:16 End of presentations - questions and open discussion
56:28 Question from Carlos Martinez (Finland) - how to reuse data in published articles?
57:21 Discussion from William Ulate, Nicole Kearney
1:01:04 Question - interest group in life sounds or colours? with answer from Paula Zermoglio
1:01:54 Question from Patricia Cabrera - crossover standards for images from remote sensors
1:03:04 Discussion from James Macklin, Peggy Newman
1:07:38 Reflections on TDWG from Arthur Chapman
1:11:58 Reflections on TDWG from Wouter Addink
1:14:35 Reflections on TDWG from James Macklin
1:19:31 Reflections on TDWG from Brenda Daly
1:20:19 Question from Joseph Chipperfield - software tools and how they could link to data standards
1:22:48 Discussion from James Macklin
1:24:04 Wrap up from moderator
1:25:03 Thanks and farewell