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Structured Descriptive Data

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  • Status: TDWG current (2005) standard
  • Category: Technical specification
  • Permanent URL: http://www.tdwg.org/standards/116
  • TDWG task group: Biological Descriptions Interest Group
  • Date submitted: 2006-11-24
  • Date published: 2005-09-16
  • Last modified: 2007-05-08

Abstract

In taxonomy, descriptive data takes a number of very different forms.

Natural-language descriptions are semi-structured, semi-formalised descriptions of a taxon (or occasionally of an individual specimen). They may be simple, short and written in plain language (if used for a popular field guide), or long, highly formal and using specialised terminology when used in a taxonomic monograph or other treatment.

Dichotomous keys are specialised identification tools comprising fragments of descriptive data arranged in couplets forming a branching tree. Each fragment (lead) comprises a small (occasionally verbose) natural-language description.

Raw data descriptions usually comprise repeated measurements of parts of individual specimens, and are the basis from which the more abstracted descriptions in natural language and coded descriptions are derived. Few taxonomists consistently record and archive their raw data in a standardised format.

The goal of the SDD standard is to allow capture, transport, caching and archiving of descriptive data in all the forms shown above, using a platform- and application-independent, international standard. Such a standard is crucial to enabling lossless porting of data between existing and future software platforms including identification, data-mining and analysis tools, and federated databases.

See also the SDD Primer.

Preferred citation

Hagedorn G., Thiele K., Morris R. & Heidorn, P.B. 2005. Structured Descriptive Data (SDD) w3c-xml-schema, Version 1.0. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) http://www.tdwg.org/standards/116

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steps to implement sdd.tdwg.org/doc/introduction

@timrobertson100, @MattBlissett, @baskaufs, @larsgw, @peterdesmet

I think there are a few changes we should make in this repository implement the sdd.tdwg.org site.

The TDWG SDS contains the following

2nd level: IRIs denoting standards documents

are in the form:

http://rs.tdwg.org/sss/doc/docname/

In the sdd repo settings I see that sdd.tdwg.org is now designated as the domain name for "pages", and that a "DNS check is in progress." I believe GBIF admins are managing the DNS for TDWG. Is that correct and is that addition to our DNS in progress?

The files comprising the SDD Introduction are now located in /sdd/docs/ and the "root" document name is SddContents.html. To make things consistent, does it make sense (or cleaner) to:

  1. move the files to /sdd/doc/introduction/,and
  2. rename the file SddContents.hml to index.html (and update all of the hrefs in the component files accordingly),

or am I not fully understanding what will be accomplished with redirection and its efficiency?

@larsgw, is that something you can do, or should I go ahead and take that on myself?

Thanks All!

Review setup of the repo

I've just finished moving http://www.tdwg.org/standards/116/ to this repo. The @tdwg/sdd team should review this.

Check to approve:

  • The README currently contains the information from http://www.tdwg.org/standards/116/. Since we want to create a snapshot (= release) of that version of the standard, only make editorial updates, before updating it to reflect recent work.
  • The standard has been uploaded as the html document I found at http://www.tdwg.org/standards/116/download, named sdd-1.html.
  • There is a preferred citation, but I'd like to standardize this across standards (comments welcome at tdwg/infrastructure#32)
  • @gmhagedorn, I've added you the the @tdwg/sdd team. Could you invite other relevant SDD contributors to the team (using their GitHub name)? The team has admin access to this repository.

Once the above are OK, I'll create a release of the standard. From then on, work an SDD can continue in this repo and issue tracker.

Schema URLs broken

Hosting the primer with GitHub pages seems to have broken the resolution of the namespace. http://rs.tdwg.org/UBIF/2005/Schema/1.0/SDD.xsd redirects to https://sdd.tdwg.org/2005/Schema/1.0/SDD.xsd which would have been provided by the gh-pages branch but now GitHub pages is served from the docs/ directory in the master branch. I suggest moving the contents of docs/ to the repository root and changing the GitHub Pages configuration to serve there. That should restore access to the items in the official namespace.

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