Standards
From Darwin Core to WGSRPD TDWG standards aid the exchange of biodiversity information.
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TDWG standards have a status and category. Current standards and those under consideration as Draft standards are governed by the TDWG Process, which includes the appointment of a Review Manager to oversee expert and public review of TDWG standards. Our standards are also available as a collection on FAIRsharing, which places them in context with databases that implement them and data policies that endorse their use.
- Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD) Schema
- Audubon Core Multimedia Resources Metadata Schema
- Authors of Plant Names
- Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum
- Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum/Supplementum
- Darwin Core
- Description Language for Taxonomy (DELTA)
- Economic Botany Data Collection Standard
- Floristic Regions of the World
- GUID and Life Sciences Identifiers Applicability Statements
- Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID3)
- Index Herbariorum. Part I: The Herbaria of the World
- International Transfer Format for Botanic Garden Plant Records (IFT2)
- Plant Names in Botanical Databases
- Plant Occurrence and Status Scheme (POSS)
- Structured Descriptive Data (SDD)
- Taxonomic Concept Transfer Schema (TCS)
- Taxonomic Literature, Edition 2 and its Supplements (TL-2)
- TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR)
- TDWG Standards Documentation Standard (SDS)
- Vocabulary Maintenance Standard (VMS)
- World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD)
- XDF - A Language for the Definition and Exchange of Biological Data Sets