Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Museum of Nature will host the 2017 Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) conference in Ottawa, Canada, October 1 – October 6.
Standards for the description and exchange of biodiversity information help promote research, support decision-making for conservation and planning, and provide a means of communicating observations across taxa, sub-disciplines, and political boundaries.
The annual TDWG conference serves two purposes:
- it is is a forum for extending, refining, and developing standards in response to new challenges and opportunities; and
- it is a showcase for biodiversity informatics – much of which relies on the specifications provided by TDWG and other standards organizations.
More information about the conference and for registration, click here.