State of the (Re-)Ratification of ABCD 2.06 and ABCD EFG under the SDS Guidelines

By

Fichtmueller, David
Petersen, Mareike
Glöckler, Falko
Güntsch, Anton

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-8-23

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

6

Pages

1--2

Subjects

ABCD Extension for Geoscience , Access to Biological Collection Data , Standards Documentation Standard , XML schema , XML standard

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93811

 

Abstract

ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data, Holetschek et al. 2012) 2.06 was ratified by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) in September 2005. In 2017, TDWG ratified the Standards Documentation Standard (SDS, Vocabulary Maintenance Specification Task Group 2017), which is a set of regulations and guidelines on how TDWG standards should be structured and documented. Since then, ABCD has been classified with “2005 standards” on the TDWG standards website. However, with the planned ratifications of the ABCD Extension for Geoscience (ABCD EFG, Petersen et al. 2018) and the more semantic ABCD 3.0 (Fichtmueller et al. 2019), it became necessary to also ratify ABCD 2.06 under the SDS rules.<br> In this talk, we will report on the progress of the ratification processes, both for ABCD 2.06 and ABCD EFG. In particular we want to address the specific challenges that arose from fitting existing XML schemas into the SDS structure and documenting them accordingly.