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Growing Together: Community-Driven Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources
Giving citizens seeds, a good app and clear tutorials can yield large phenotypic datasets and community-based conservation of crop diversity.
Markus Oppermann ↗
Metadata matters: perceptions on the implementation of Darwin Core in the biocollections cyberinfrastructure
Standardisation through Darwin Core can mask nuance, and practitioners report complex data, missing guidelines and limited capacity as the main implementation barriers.
Bradley Wade Bishop ↗
Resilience of Research Infrastructures through knowledge and engagement
Communication, engagement and continuous user training make an infrastructure relevant enough that a community will want it to survive.
Jose, Mareike Petersen ↗
Session discussion: mineralogy extension and MIDS geology rules
Geology collections now have concrete standards moments to engage with: the mineralogy extension ratification and the MIDS public review.
Ben Norton, Adam Mansur ↗
SYM08A closing discussion: sustaining and connecting the BHL ecosystem
Focusing on core functions made GBIF and BHL successful; sustaining the connected ecosystem now requires clear value statements and machine interfaces such as MCP servers.
Nicole Kearney ↗
Challenges and Opportunities for FAIR Marine eDNA Data Publication Workflows
Making marine eDNA data FAIR is as much about clear, practical, less manual publication processes as about technology.
Berenice Talamantes Becerra ↗
Collaborative Development of an Institution-Wide Controlled Vocabulary
A shared vocabulary across a large museum depends as much on familiar tools, trusted forums and ongoing governance as on the terms themselves.
Caitlin Thorn ↗
From Legacy Database to Cloud: Challenges in Migrating Legacy Collection Data to a FAIR Collection Management System
A dedicated data manager who acts as liaison and uses iterative prototypes can make a small institute's move to a shared CMS workable despite fragmented legacy practices.
Marije Timmermans ↗
Sustainability and collaboration in a time of uncertainty
Sustaining biodiversity data infrastructure requires treating technology, people and a diversified funding portfolio as one interconnected system.
Libby Ellwood ↗
SYM29A panel discussion: working with collection managers, documentation and institutional strategy
Bridging cabinets and clouds depends on people: engaging collection managers, making data work visible, institutional strategy and durable documentation.
Caitlin Thorn, Jacobus Christiaan Steenkamp, Cailin Meyer ↗
Symposium discussion: funding models, open data and sustaining biodiversity infrastructure
The community broadly agreed that core data should stay open, but that products, services, credits, regulation and partnerships must become part of sustaining the infrastructure.
Libby Ellwood, James Macklin, André Zerger ↗
Handling evidence: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Biodiversity standards should stop treating what was recorded and what was concluded as the same kind of fact, borrowing evidence-handling practice from forensics, archaeology and medicine.
Dmitry Schigel ↗
Hit or miss? Creative promotion of biodiversity data and standards for success and recognition
The community should broaden what it counts and publishes as outputs, and deliberately reach new audiences with creative, citable formats.
Shelley James, Deborah Paul ↗
Standardizing Multimodal Insect Monitoring Data for AI-Ready Pipelines: Lessons from an InsectAI Community Datathon
Camtrap DP can largely accommodate automated insect monitoring data today, but the community needs agreed guidance and a few targeted extensions (track IDs, parent media and crop offsets, target taxonomic scope, identification provenance) to handle insect-specific challenges.
Jamie Alison ↗
TDWG Business Meeting: elections, subcommittee and working group reports, and TDWG 2027 announcement
TDWG is recruiting for key elected roles and subcommittees while reporting a busy standards year and announcing a large joint 2027 meeting in Montreal.
David Bloom, Ben Norton, Kit Lewers ↗