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These are the topics identified in St. Petersburg 2005 TDWG meeting as deserving of discussion.
  
	* TDWGImageCharter
	* TDWGImageScope media scope;sound, video, still images, 3d media; capture  storag;  transmission;  format translation;  regions of interest
	* TDWGImageGoals	standards;	best practices	protocol development (e.g recos to other protocols) …connections to other standards
	* ImageGUIDRequirements, especially requirements for the resolution services for the GUIDs
	* ImageUseCases
	* ImageManipulation
	* ImageConsumers what services are provided in which images are important data
	* ImageTools	  automatic metadata annotation 
	* ImageToolProviders  commercial and non-commercial
	* ImageInteroperability file standards? services? 
	* GeoreferencedImages and the tools to make them, e.g. gps for cameras.
	* DocumentingOrganismsWithMedia what is specific to documenting organisms?
	* ImageDiscovery locating and searching for/about images?
	* IntelligentRetrival image retrieval systems that are biologically aware
	* MovingImages Are existing standards suitable for tracking an object in biological contexts: temporal spatial annotiations
	* ImageProvenance where did this image come from and what is its history?
	* DocumentingImageQuality: standards to which image was acquired, technical medatata, fitness for use, circumstances of acuisition
	* SharingImagesInRealTime
	* MetadataStandards existing standards, minimum recommendations for various communities; content metadata; metadata for discovery and comparison; image technical metadata; ontology and content metadata standards for biological organisms, habitats, communities


Main.ArthurChampan list to be folded in shortly


-- Main.BobMorris - 22 Sep 2005