Built on standards researchers already use.

The core vocabulary for occurrence records: what was seen, where, when, and by whom.

Sampling effort, protocol, completeness, and inferable absences for traps, tows, transects, and plots.

Sample preparation, acquisition, instrument, and analysis metadata for reusable microscopy data.

Machine-readable image dimensions, channels, objectives, and physical pixel metadata, including OME-TIFF and OME-XML.

A next-generation format direction for large, multi-resolution biological image collections.

TDWG multimedia terms for linking a photograph, scan, or recording to a biodiversity occurrence.

Geoscience terms for mineralogical, petrological, and palaeontological specimens where Darwin Core alone is not enough.

Environmental context for sequence-linked samples: location, depth, environment, and sampling method.

Dataset context, methods, coverage, tables, and metadata packaged for a future Darwin Core Archive export.

A TDWG vocabulary for describing whole collections—natural-history drawers, specimen archives, and microscopy sets.

Persistent identifiers for contributor credit and retained geological samples, subject to an implemented minting and linking policy.

The cross-cutting direction: data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.