Draft Standards

As a starting point in our development of international exchange standards we examine the XML schema for VegBank, VegetWeb, and TurboVeg.

We recommend viewing these files using XMLSpy or equivalent software.

Draft XML schema for VegBank

For an introduction to VegBank, visit http://www.vegbank.org/general/info.html
For two brief powerpoint tutorials: [VegBank - Why?] [VegBank - What?]

Version 1.0.2 of the VegBank XML has been released. This is available at: http://vegbank.org/vegdocs/xml/vegbank-xml-index.html.

You may track the evolution of the VegBank XML at:
http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/vegbank/docs/xml/db_model_vegbank.xml

Draft XML schema for VegetWeb

Information about VegetWeb
The physical model (VegetWeb v1.1)
The logical model (VegetWeb v1.1)

The most recent XML standard (Schema v2.1)

Download an Access-Tool for creating ESVeg-2 xlm-files

Draft XML schema for TurboVeg

coming soon ...

Draft Standards for Biological Collections Data.
This draft might serve as a model for our efforts, and their treatment of taxa might influence the direction we take for taxa in plot data.

http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/