TDWG working group:
Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD)

Conveners report about the progress of SDD at the TDWG meeting in Brazil, October 2002

The report was originally published as a powerpoint file on www.cria.org.br. Some people had problems however, and it is therefore here republished as graphic slides in html.

Compare also the of the minutes of the SDD meeting in Brazil!

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Examples for uses of descriptive data, automatic generation of natural language. See also http://www.lias.net.

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Species pages or information in a species bank should not be viewed as a separate data item, but as a report generated from multiple data sources.

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Slide 10: History of SDD

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Slide 15: Expanded schema is already quite complex.

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First presented at TDWG meeting in Brazil, 2002-10, first published in html format 2003-02-21, last update: 2003-02-21.

(Gregor Hagedorn, Convener)