MRTG

The Audubon Core Biological Multimedia Metadata Standard or profile is the end result of the Multimedia Resource Task Group of GBIF and TDWG. The page MRTG documents the earlier draft and working documents. The final version is presently provided and documented under http://species-id.net/wiki/Audubon_Core - please see there for further information.

→ Information about submission as TDWG standard
→ MRTG Wiki Homepage
→ Current Schema Draft. This version is under internal review as part of the submission to TDWG.
→ Audubon Core Non normative document
→ MRTG Development History
→ MRTG Meeting Notes
→ MRTG Best Practices
→ XML Schema representation of Audubon Core
→ RDF representation of Audubon Core
→ MediaWiki Help

This is the front page for the work of the TDWG/GBIF Multimedia Resource Task Group.

1 Group Charter

MRTG is a joint task group of GBIF and TDWG. You can examine its Charter or just the charter Summary:

"The goal of this Task Group is to evaluate schemas and standards for collation, management and dissemination of multimedia resources relevant to biodiversity. Through propagation of such standards, the Task Group intends to bring about cultural change in ways that multimedia resources are currently created and managed. Another aim of the Task Group is to develop schemas that could support the collection of primary biodiversity data associated with multimedia artefacts."

2 Participation

Participation is welcome. You don't have to register for the wiki just to read it. If you wish to participate in the discussions here, please register at the Create Account link on Special:RequestAccount. If you are not a member of the Task Group, please be sure to identify your interests in the account creation page.

If you create new pages, please add the string

{{MRTG}}

to the top of the page. This wiki template will force your page to be in the MRTG wiki Category to make it easier to find. It will also add some other MRTG discussion attributes as we might from time to time desire to apply globally to the MRTG discussions.

3 The MRTG pages

• Principal entry points:
  • TDWG Submission Info Current status of the TDWG Submission
  • MRTG Non normative document Read the material here first, especially the current version of the Non normative document linked on that page.
  • Current Schema Draft. This version is under internal review as part of the submission to TDWG. The technical details of the current draft schema proposal. Read this second.
  • Multimedia Repositories Operated by or known to contributors to this wiki.
  • MRTG Meeting Notes
  • MRTG Best Practices Stream of conscious stakes in the ground toward eventual recommendations. Hopefully based on actual experience.
• Index of pages in wiki Category:MRTG

4 MRTG Implementations

Use of MRTG terms in RDF metadata at http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu

Place here a wikilink to any page you make describing a MRTG Implementation.

5 Member Notes

• MRTG Copenhagen Meeting 2009, Notes Riccardi

6 Wiki Disiderata

• Make the left panel toolbox show a link to this page, and one to the current normative schema, if and only if the displayed page is in Category:MRTG, which will happen whenever {{MRTG}} heads the page.
• BreadCrumbs2 or similar extension

7 Thanks

Thanks to Key To Nature project for hosting these discussions.