TDWG Infrastructure Project 1. Project Status Lee Belbin & Donald Hobern

Milestones – In Hand 36% time & 63% milestones completed

TIP Reports 1.Current TDWG Processes 2.Best Current Practice 3.Documentation Strategy a.Documentation Specification for TDWG Standards 4.Website Requirements 5.Website Technology Evaluation 6.Documentation Priorities for Website Outsourcing Evaluation 8.Initial Administrative Standards 9.First TDWG Globally Unique Identifiers Workshop Report 10.Survey of TDWG Members/Potential Members 11.New Website Review Guide 12.TAG-1 Meeting Report 13.Membership structure of similar standards agencies

Milestones - Ahead ItemOutcomeDateActualTaskLeads 27Approval by TDWG of the new process1-Jun-06 1LB, SB 28Architectural framework for TDWG released for voting3-Jun-06 3RH 29Second workshop for GUID development5-Jun-0610-Jun- 06 4DH, RP 30Launch of the collaborative development environment15-Jul-06 2RP 31Adoption of architectural framework for TDWG1-Aug-06 3RH 32Document summarizing progress against 2006 documentation work plan.1-Sep-06 3RH 33Implementation of first version of GUID infrastructure; First release of GUID systems1-Oct-06 4DH, RP 34Review paper: TDWG long-term goals and budgetary requirements5-Oct-06 5LB 35Meeting with TDWG Executive on funding brochure (draft)15-Nov-06 5LB 36Prioritized list for 2007 for populating standards documents1-Dec-06 3RH 37Funding brochure15-Jan-07 5LB NewTDWG Survey 2?1-Mar-07 LB 38Document summarizing progress against 2007 documentation work plan.1-Sep-07 3RH 39Review paper: GUID systems review (TDWG 2006) based on first implementation5-Sep-07 4DH, RP 40Document reviewing options for long-term support and infrastructure1-Oct-07 5LB 41Adjustments and second release of GUID systems based on review15-Nov-07 4DH, RP 42Long-term support/infrastructure adopted1-Dec-07 5LB

TDWG Subgroup Support - Travel DateProjectDaysMilestoneProductsTravel$Labor$Total 10/04/2006SDD3Workshop1. Review TIP recommendations, 2. SDD lite, 3. Introduction to SDD (5-6 pages)$5,300 ? SDD5Meeting1. Planning SDD lite$6,100 30/08/2006TCS60Prototype 1. Convert an existing dataset to domain ontology, 2. Develop demo prototype tool for linking GUIDs during the conversion 3. Document a. The core ontology as at 12/June b. The process of converting an existing dataset to the ontology and c. The tool for supporting linking GUIDs during data conversion.$7,750$41,000 $48,750 17/05/2006TCS3Meeting Draft a seed ontology for TDWG that includes the main concepts within DwV, TCR, ABCD and SDD$10,000 11/04/2006TAG3MeetingTAG meeting$12,000 13/06/2006NCD4Workshop1. NCD draft, 2. Primer, 3. Charter$12,000 3/07/2006ABCD3Meeting 1. Bugfixes (new schema?), 2. Adapting ABCD to common architecture, 3. Report on core ABCD with identified links to other standards, 4. Charter, 5. Primer$17,000 23/06/2006 Geospa tial4 Geospatial & OGC meetings 1. DwC GML schema 2. GML applicability map to TDWG 3. Report on UML environment, 4. OGC-TDWG applicability primer. 5. TDWG-OGC applicability primer, 6. geospatial ontologies, 7. report on coord reference systems 8. charter$20,700$9,300 $30,000 early JuneDiGIR 24Workshop Core architecture of DiGIR2, RDF services, LSID resolution, administrative installation & configuration tools, protocol plugins (DiGIR 1.5, WFS, TAPIR, etc), extensions (bulk harvesting, graphical setup tools..) ->Manual for the installation, configuration, operation, extension, and integration of DIGIR2 $30,000 Subtotals$120,850$50,300$171,150

TDWG Subgroup Support - Labour DateProjectDaysMilestoneProductsTravel$Labor$Total Subtotals$120,850$50,300$171,150 1/04/2006GUIDs14Toolkit.NET web service implementation to set up an LSID resolver, authority, client, assigning service, FAN services & documentation on how to set up a simple authority, configure it. Also how to set up a more advanced authority and documentation about the important classes. $4,000 15/04/200 6TAPIR60DocumentationTAPIR documentation site $19,500 30/05/200 6TCS5Documentation1. Development of standard documentation kit, 2. Primer, 3. Charter $5,000 1/06/2006Web20DocumentationTransfer and build content for the new Web site $7,000 15/06/200 6SDD72Documentation 1. Primer (tutorial approach similar to W3C primers with focus on structure, logic and examples) $16,000 1/09/2006DwC ? DwC 2 1. Finalize the Darwin Core 2 and extensions, 2. new TDWG documentation, 3. Primer, 4. Charter $15,000 ? DwC20DiGIR1. Update DiGIR to read and write RDF (TBA; Combined with #18?) $4,000 ? SDD60Documentation 1. Documentation set (similar to W3C normative set with element-based structure - a reference manual for IT specialists), 2. Charter (a few pages) $15,000 Grand Totals$120,850$135,800$427,800

TIP SWOT Strengths –Skills, diversity, dedication and experience of the team Weaknesses –20/80/volunteers, feedback Opportunities –New process, architecture, documentation, website Threats –Resistance to change, adaptation, alienation (us/them)