Direct export to excel and GCDML is available, with RDF being another proposed http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Tipifarnib(R115777).html format. Tools under initial review for working with vocabulary terms, included the following: ISA Creator, tools to assign terms from ontologies and consume spreadsheet data Rightfield (http://www.sysmo-db.org/rightfield) propose terms from Ontologies and map to spreadsheet data. Clean interface, could not quite get it to work, need help. Terminizer (http://terminizer.org/) — propose terms from Ontologies proof of concept Ontology Annotator (http://bioportal.bioontology.org/annotator) OntoFinder (http://ontofinder.dbcls.jp/) It was discussed that a DwC-A exporter could be developed for one or more of these tools.

Vocabulary Translation A complete, authoritative list of current DwC terms needed for mapping data (thus without abstract terms, Class terms, or Type Vocabulary terms) was made available as a CSV file (http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/downloads/detail?name=DwCTermsForTranslations_2011-10-16.csv). This file is recommended as a starting point for translations or other further documentation for Darwin Core. The workshop offered opportunities for face to face discussions concerning translation issues. The teams addressing the translations to Japanese and Chinese completed their work after the workshop and provided the translation files to GBIF for merging into a SKOS document and publication on the GBIF vocabularies site. A draft SKOS document is available on the GBIF community site: http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/23196/darwin-core-translations-skos.

DwC-A for genomic data During the workshop, two extensions for publishing genomic biodiversity data to the GBIF network via a DwC-A were prototyped. Both of these use a DwC “occurrence” as the core data type. The extensions are ��MIxS Sample�� and ��TaxonAbundance��. MIxS Sample: http://rs.gbif.org/sandbox/extension/mixs_sample.xml TaxonAbundance: http://rs.gbif.org/sandbox/extension/abundance.xml Taxon assignment against metagenome sequences is indispensable for figuring out the entire behavior of the microbiome. Metagenome data are usually summarized as an abundance of each taxon in a sample using taxonomic assignment results of metagenome sequences from the sample [12]. The “TaxonAbundance” extension was developed to describe this taxonomic summary information of the sample via the DwC-A. The workshop participants Batimastat discussed measurements and facts that could be expressed within the scope of the existing ��MeasurementOrFact�� extension (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MeasurementOrFact).