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’ve been an active contributor to the TDWG community since 2019. Among the most notable roles include chair of the Technical Architecture Group, member of the Executive Committee, and co-convener of the Mineralogy Extension Task Group and Earth Sciences and Paleobiology Interest Group. On the technical side, I’m the lead designer and developer of a new documentation engine, Standards Documentation Generator or StaDocGen. All of my TDWG activities are summarized below:

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