tdwg / how-did-it-die

A TDWG Task Group developing a vocabulary for expressing whether an organism(s) was encountered dead or alive, and the cause of death, if known.

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How did it die? Task Group

This is the repository for the How did it die? Task Group.

About the group

How did it die? is a Task Group under the Observations and Specimen Records (OSR) Interest Group convened to propose the addition of terms, and associated controlled vocabularies, to Darwin Core to enable the interoperability of datasets that hold information on the vitality of the organism and any cause of death.

The day-to-day operations of the Task Group are documented in this repository and there are some quick links into the repository below.

Members

Conveners

Name Affiliation
Sophia Ratcliffe NBN Trust, UK
Quentin Groom Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium
Janeen Jones The Field Museum, Chicago, United States
Libby Ellwood Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, United States

Core Members

Name Affiliation

How did it die? TG Quick Links

Here are some quick links into the repository to help understand how to contribute to the Task Group and where to find materials related to the development of the terms required to describe the vitality and cause of death of organisms.

A description of our rationale and goals, motivation, tasks, and strategy. This document outlines the goals and objectives of the task group and plan for reaching these goals.

All tasks and questions can be added here. An issue has been created for each proposed new term, please review these and add comments and feedback to the issue.

Please review the use cases and add to them to them where you can. The group aims to have a use case for each controlled vocabulary term.

How did it die? TG Events

  • Unconference session ‘How did it die?’, Biodiversity_Next, Leiden, October 2019
  • How did it die? Working session, TDWG 2020

The group will organism monthly online meetings to progress development of the tasks.

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A TDWG Task Group developing a vocabulary for expressing whether an organism(s) was encountered dead or alive, and the cause of death, if known.