TDWG working group: Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD)

Minutes of SDD meetings

The minutes try to capture or explain discussions in considerable detail and are worth taking a look at. Many discussions are unresolved and the current status of the SDD schema should be seen as an attempt to solve problems posed at the meetings. Reading the recent meetings minutes is therefore highly recommended!

• Minutes of the 2 day++ meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, 11-17. October 2004 (TDWG 2004). This is a preliminary version, comments/additions are most welcome!. No new post-Christchurch schema is available yet, the discussion schema used in Christchurch can still be found here: SDD 1.0 beta 2.
• Minutes of the 2 day meeting in Berlin, Germany, 17-18. May 2004.
• Minutes of the 6 day meeting during the TDWG meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, 20-26. October 2003. Other material on the progress made in Lisbon: Draft of the SDD primer by Kevin Thiele, Overview of SDD 0.9 schema files and documentation
• Minutes of the additional SDD meeting in Paris, 13-16. February 2003.
• Minutes of the 4 day meeting during the TDWG meeting in Brazil, 14-17. October 2002. Other relevant material about the meeting in Brazil: a) "straw man" xml schema model, b) associated example document, c) xml schema viewable as html with graphics (large file, 1.5 MB html-file plus 0.4 MB images!), d) conveners report from Brazil as html-document (presentation slides).
• Minutes of the additional meetings in Canberra and Sydney, Australia, 11-14. March 2002
• Minutes of session at the TDWG meeting in Sydney, 10. November 2001
• Minutes of session at the TDWG meeting in Frankfurt, 12. November 2000
• Minutes of session at the TDWG meeting at Harvard University, 31. October 1999