Realm, Biome and Environmental Material Task Group

This is the working repository of Realm, Biome and Environmental Material Task Group (charter). The Task Group is established under the Darwin Core Maintenance Group which maintains the Darwin Core standard.

The main goal of the task group is to evaluate the proposal of two terms, biome and environmentalMaterial, and propose a new term, realm, to the Darwin Core standard, including the possibility of implementing controlled vocabularies for all terms.

Core members

• Cecilie Svenningsen (convenor) | Global Biodiveristy Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat
• Kate Ingenloff | Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat
• Pier Luigi Buttigieg | Alfred Wegener Institute - Board member of the GSC, Chief editor of the Environment Ontology (ENVO), Chair of IOC-UNESCO’s Ocean Data and Information System
• John Wieczorek | providing support for the process of Vocabulary enhancements as the Darwin Core convenor

Getting involved

All the work of the Task Group is done in this GitHub repository. Please watch the repository and participate in the discussions around each term.

Other Resources

• IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (GET)
• ENVO proposed source for the biome term
• ENVO GH issue on adding biogeographic realm
• ENVO GH issue on aligning with GET