This is the site for development, issue tracking, and supplementary documentation for the Darwin Core, the definitive published version of which can be found at http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm.

Table of Contents

• Standards Progress
• Submitting Issues
• Darwin Core Terms
• Record-level Terms
• Occurrence Terms
• Event Terms
• GeologicalContext Terms
• Location Terms
• Identification Terms
• Taxon Terms
• ResourceRelationship Terms
• MeasurementOrFact Terms
• Type Vocabulary Terms
• Examples
• Resources
• Community-based Activities
• Proposals

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• Project updates
• Subversion commits
• Wiki page changes