[Taxacom] Public Review of TAPIR (reminder)

[Lee Belbin]

Public Review of TAPIR


TDWG would like to remind the community that the Public Review of the TDWG
Access Protocol for Information Retrieval TAPIR - a method for sharing
biodiversity information - is underway.  Since being officially put forward
as a draft, TAPIR has undergone a peer review, a review by the TDWG
Executive and multiple revisions.  We do need your input at this stage, so
please consider lodging a comment on this proposed standard.

Open Invitation: We invite all who may contribute and/or consume
biodiversity information to examine this proposed standard during the Public
Review period from 10th September through at least until the 10th November
2009. 

How to Participate: You can participate in the review of TAPIR in two ways;
either through lodging a comment through TDWG's Open Journal System, or you
can take the Microsoft Word document and edit it with track changes and
resubmit it to the TAPIR Wiki space.  

Details of this process can be found at
<http://www.tdwg.org/homepage-news-item/article/public-review-of-tapir/>
http://www.tdwg.org/homepage-news-item/article/public-review-of-tapir/

Questions about the process should be directed to me at
piers(at)gaiaresources.com.au.   

Please share this opportunity for public comment and review with others you
think may be interested. 

Acknowledgements: I'd like to thank the authors, the anonymous reviewers and
the members of the Executive Committee who reviewed the standard.  In
addition, the guidance of Lee Belbin through the review process has been
invaluable and greatly appreciated.

Links expanded: 

TAPIR Specification in HTML -
<http://www.tdwg.org/dav/subgroups/tapir/1.0/docs/tdwg_tapir_specification_2
009-09-08.htm>
http://www.tdwg.org/dav/subgroups/tapir/1.0/docs/tdwg_tapir_specification_20
09-09-08.htm

Official TAPIR Website -  <http://www.tdwg.org/subgroups/tapir/>
http://www.tdwg.org/subgroups/tapir/ 
Various TAPIR software packages -
<http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAPIR/TapirSoftware>
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAPIR/TapirSoftware
Subscribe to tdwg-tag  -  <http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag>
http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag 

Related Links: 

TDWG:  <http://www.tdwg.org/> http://www.tdwg.org/ 
Other TDWG Standards:  <http://www.tdwg.org/standards/>
http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ 
TDWG Standards Track (in OJS):  <http://www.tdwg.org/stdtrack/index>
http://www.tdwg.org/stdtrack/index 

Apologies if you receive this multiple times from various mailing lists.

Sincerely, 

Piers Higgs, Review Manager 

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