Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is a not-for-profit, scientific and educational association formed to establish international collaboration among the creators, managers and users of biodiversity information and to promote the wider and more effective dissemination and sharing of knowledge about the world’s heritage of biological organisms.

To achieve its goals, TDWG:

• Develops, ratifies and promotes standards and guidelines for the recording and exchange of data about organisms
• Acts as a forum for discussing all aspects of biodiversity information management through meetings, online discussions, and publications

I joined TDWG in 2021 as a member of the Technical Architecture Group. Three years later, I became the chair of that same Technical Architecture Group. In between, my past and present roles within the TDWG ecosystem include:

• Executive Committee Member (2024–Present)
• Co-convener, Mineralogical Collections Extension to the Darwin Core Standard (2022–Present)
• Co-convener, Earth Sciences and Paleobiology Interest Group (2024-Present)
• Core Contributer, Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS) (2023-Present)
• Review Manager for the ratification of Latimer Core (2022–2023)
• Core Contributor, Camtrap DP (2020–2022)
• Member, Latimer Core and Darwin Core Maintenance Groups (2022-Present)