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PowerPoint (Slide presentation supporting paper) | Available
under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Over
recent years several sub-groups within the Taxonomic Databases
Working Group (TDWG) have developed models and exchange
standards to facilitate data sharing within the taxonomic
community. These include ABCD, SDD, DwC, TCS and Spatial Data
Standards. Of these, ABCD, SDD and TCS have been ratified as
TDWG standards (see http://www.tdwg.org/standards). Although
each group focused on different aspects of taxonomic data and
its representation, the resulting standards duplicated the
modeling of many aspects of taxonomy. For example, Biological
Collections refer to specimens, taxonomic