DwC Hour Title: Darwin Core - a (Public) Review (1a)
Channel: Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG
Date: 2021-06-24

Presenter: John Wieczorek
Moderator: Mareike Petersen, Chair of TDWG Outreach and Communications Subcommittee

Support: The Darwin Core Maintenance Group (Steve Baskauf, Peter Desmet, Markus Döring, Tim Robertson, Paula Zermoglio) & Rich Pyle

An all-important step in TDWG's standard maintenance process is the public review. Periodically, the community is asked to assess proposals for enhancements to a standard that have arisen from community driven needs and effort to resolve them. In this session we will focus on the most recent and uncharacteristically large public review of 40 proposals, highlighting selected examples from among them to show how the change process works in practice, summarizing the overall results of the review and the current disposition of the proposals involved. After a presentation, the webinar will be open for questions and discussion about the process and the proposals. 

This webinar is a co-production of the Darwin Core Hour and TDWG Outreach & Communication sub-committee. It will be offered twice (1a, 1b) to accommodate our global audience.