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Address from the TDWG Chair: highlights of the year and TDWG at a crossroads
TDWG has had a productive year, but a growing, more diverse community and the rise of AI put it at a crossroads that needs more volunteers, better documentation and more sustainable maintenance and funding.
David Bloom ↗
Bridging domains: how SESAR supports Earth and biodiversity digital extended specimens
Persistent sample identifiers plus linked metadata propagated to DataCite let samples be connected to their derived research products across Earth and biodiversity domains.
Andrea Thomer ↗
Here, There, and Everywhere: Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata
Treat research expeditions as first-class entities with Wikidata identifiers so distributed specimens, people, publications and archives can be linked.
Sabine von Mering ↗
Type specimens in Wikidata
A consistent Wikidata type specimen model lets anyone link type specimens to collectors, publications, taxa and identifiers as a transparent finding aid.
Siobhan Leachman ↗
A collaborative perspective on a globally standardised river basin name database
Freshwater biodiversity data need a global, multilingual, collaboratively maintained river basin naming system, and TDWG, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap could build it together.
Daniel Mietchen ↗
Applying Data Standards at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Identifiers are how RBGE is standardising legacy herbarium data and reconnecting items spread across four separate collection management systems.
Robyn Drinkwater ↗
Bionomia, Scholia, Wikidata and Zenodo: broadcasting biodiversity data contributions
Linking people, specimens, publications, datasets and collections through Wikidata and associated tools (Bionomia, Scholia, Expeditia, Zenodo) makes biodiversity contributions findable and creditable.
Siobhan Leachman ↗
Enhancing Biodiversity Georeferencing Using Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
LLM preprocessing plus knowledge-base matching fills in locality hierarchies and proposes coordinates, with a review tool to keep humans in control.
Roselyn Gabud ↗
TDWG 2026 Unconference: pitches, topic voting and breakout report-backs
The Unconference showed the community's priorities (controlled vocabularies, AI readiness, project sustainability, Wikidata, Darwin Core data packages) and started several follow-up groups.
Javier Molina, Nicky Nicolson, Deb Paul ↗