International Standards for Content Metadata for Biological Images

[Stinger Guala]

John,

There is an image standards TDWG subgroup being formed right now. The first
meeting will be at the TDWG annual meeting in St. Petersburg in September. I
expect the standards eventually adopted will become part of TAPIR (the newly
funded merging of Darwin Core and ABCD and beyond). There will be several
people associated with the Morphbank project involved in the image metadata
standard I expect. Given that morphbank started as an insect database, there
will likely be very good coverage of your area. There are two other standards
to look at that are being used in the collections community right now - the
LOC standard (http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_az.html) which will
likely be closely associated with Dublin Core which of course is sort of the
mother of Darwin Core. The other is the JSTOR standard which I'm guessing is
buried somewhere at Jstor.org.



>   8. International Standards for Content Metadata for Biological Images

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> Date:    Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:07:54 -0500
> From:    "John D. Oswald" <j-oswald at TAMU.EDU>
> Subject: International Standards for Content Metadata for Biological Images
>
>     Can anyone point me to any international metadata standards that have
> been developed for querying/exchanging information about content associated
> with biological images (e.g., digital photographs, scans, digitized print
> images, ditigal SEM's, etc.). I am particularly interested in any attempts
> to derive a standard set of data fields to document image "content", as
> differentiated from fields documenting the history or technical parameters
> associated with the capture of an image. Is there any concise international
> standard for this? Something perhaps analogous to the DarwinCore standard
> for exchanging/accessing specimen/observation records? I am especially
> interested in standards that might be appropriate to adopt for the capture
> of content information for entomological images of whole specimens, or
> parts thereof.
>
>
> Dr. John D. Oswald
> Associate Professor and Curator
> Department of Entomology
> Texas A&M University
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> College Station, TX   77843-2475
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>
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> Bibliography of the Neuropterida
>
(http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/bibhome.html)
> Index to the Neuropterida Species of the World
>
(http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neur_sp_index/ins_search.html)
> Neuropterists Directory
>     (http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/ndi-home.html)
> NeuroWeb
>     (http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neuroweb.html)
>
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>
> Date:    Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:02:59 -0500
> From:    "Susan B. Farmer" <sfarmer at GOLDSWORD.COM>
> Subject: Re: The Nomenclature Sessions at IBC
>
> Quoting Richard.Zander at MOBOT.ORG:
>
> > The nomenclature sessions at the International Botanical Congress are over.
> > Can anyone let me know what the results of voting were for:
> >
> > (1) Continuance of Botanical Latin as a requirement.
> > (2) Proposals for effective publication of new names via the Web or CDRom.
> >
>
> Or allowing valid publication in theses/dissertations with an ICBN.
>
> Susan
> -----
> Susan Farmer
> sfarmer at goldsword.com
> University of Tennessee
> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
> http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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