Biodiversity Information Standards

TDWG

Developing open standards for the exchange of biodiversity data.

Standards Body Active

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), originally the Taxonomic Databases Working Group, is a non-profit scientific and educational association that develops open standards for the exchange of biodiversity data, facilitating biodiversity informatics. Affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences, TDWG is best known for the Darwin Core standard, which has been used by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to collect millions of biological observations from museums and other organizations worldwide.

Standards (3)

Access to Biological Collection Data

(ABCD)

An XML schema for exchanging specimen and observation data from biological collections.

Element Set / Metadata Schema active Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Updated June 13, 2007

Audiovisual Core Multimedia Resources Metadata Schema

(AC)

Metadata vocabularies for describing biodiversity-related multimedia resources and collections.

Element Set / Metadata Schema active Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Updated February 24, 2023

Darwin Core

(DwC)

A shared vocabulary for recording and exchanging biodiversity observations, specimens, and taxa.

Element Set / Metadata Schema active Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Updated September 18, 2023