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Welcome to the home of the <strong>SDD WIKI</strong>! This is a web-based collaboration area for discussions of the subgroup on the Structure of Descriptive Data of the [[http://www.tdwg.org][Taxonomic Data Working Group]]. We welcome your contributions - please see the bottom of this page if you are new to this Wiki.

---+++ [[http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/SDD/Primer/WebHome][Primer draft available!]] 
The Primer is based on [[Version1dot1][version 1.1, RC1]]. There are consequential technical differences from the current [[DiscussionFor1dot1RC2][RC2]] but few should affect the Primer. It is expected that 1.1RC3 will be released before December 31 2006 with very few changes from RC2, and that a stable release made shortly thereafter. ... -- Main.BobMorris - 26 Oct 2006

---+++Starter Topics
   * As part of the TDWG Infrastructure Project we have developed a [[Charter]]. Please comment!
   * After the vote on SDD 1.0 at St. Petersburg several minor problems have arisen. We have addressed these by providing a slightly modified version of SDD and recommend that all usage of SDD should refer to this [[Version1dot1][version 1.1]].

---+++Ongoing discussions
   * DiscussionFor1dot1RC2
   * [[SDD2006BerlinSummary]]
   * DiscussionFor1dot1RC1
   * TextCharacterDiscussion
   * ConceptStateDiscussion
   * SyntheticData
   * RDFandSDD. Also, see the discussion at the [[http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=GUID1ReportComments][GUID Wiki]] and [[http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/BackgroundReading][TDWG-TAG]] as well.
   * WhatToDoWithElementsMarkedForDiscussion: "double underbar elements" are only for discussion, all will be removed when finalizing!

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---+++Interesting related links:
   * [[http://www.identifylife.org/][Identify Life project]]
   * [[http://efg.cs.umb.edu][Electronic Field Guide]]
   * [[http://kikforum.wordpress.com][Kew Interactive Key Forum]]
   * [[http://www.lucidcentral.org/][Lucid]], 
   * [[http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/][Hymenoptera On-Line Database]] and 
   * [[http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~openkey/][OpenKey]] 
   * [[http://digitaltaxonomy.infobio.net/index.php?Software:DELTA_and_Identification][Digitaltaxonomy: Overview Identification and Description software]] 


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---+++SDD Topics
   * [[Charter]]
   * PrimerHome - please contribute to this - the Primer will be authored collaboratively on this wiki
   * DELTAandSDD
   * SchemaDiscussion (main topic, currently referring to SDD 1.0)
   * An up-to-date version of the schema should always be in CurrentSchemaVersion!
   * MeetingMinutes (rich discussion content rather than formal minutes!) and MailingList (including archives)
   * ToolsForSDD
   * ImplementationsOfSDD
   * SDDBioLinkDiscussion
   * SDDAsNativeStore Issues about querying and other XML database issues arising when SDD is the underlying data representation.
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<a href="http://wiki.cs.umb.edu "><img src="http://wiki.cs.umb.edu/twiki/pub/efglogoTWiki.jpg" border="0" alt="EFG home" align="left" /></a> Until May 2006 this wiki was hosted by the [[http://www.cs.umb.edu/~alyons/efg_web/ Electronic Field Guide]] project. Many thanks to Bob Morris and his colleagues of the [[http://umb.edu/ University of Massachusetts at Boston]]!