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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
Conference Abstract
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Steven J Baskauf
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Corresponding author: Steven J Baskauf (steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu)
Received: 29 Sep 2020 | Published: 30 Sep 2020
© 2020 Steven J Baskauf
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Baskauf SJ (2020) Creating and Maintaining TDWG Vocabularies using Spreadsheets. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59124. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59124
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Abstract
Because TDWG vocabularies change and grow as they are developed by the community, it is nearly impossible to document their version history and generate both machine and human readable documentation by manual editing of multiple documents in several formats. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the workflow that has been established to maintain vocabularies in accordance with the TDWG Standards Documentation and Vocabulary Maintenance specifications. I will show how vocabulary creators and maintainers can use simple CSV spreadsheets to create new vocabularies or to update existing ones. I will also provide an overview of the Python scripts that TDWG infrastructure maintainers use to process those simple spreadsheets to turn them into the authoritative files in TDWG's rs.tdwg.org GitHub repository, which serves as the data source for both machine readable serializations of the vocabularies and human readable standards documents.
Keywords
standards, metadata
Presenting author
Steven J Baskauf
Presented at
TDWG 2020