The Technical Architecture Group is a Functional Subcommittee (FS) of the TDWG Executive - responsible for ensuring that TDWG standards work effectively with each other and with standards used more widely in natural and information sciences. This is done primarily by giving technical advice to the Executive Committee and Interest and Task Groups, as requested and through reviewing Interest and Task Group charters, reports, and draft standards.
The charter of the group can be viewed at https://www.tdwg.org/about/committees/tag/.
Ben Norton (Chair) - Independent michaelnorton.ben@gmail.com
Wouter Addink - Naturalis wouter.addink@naturalis.nl
Steve Baskauf (chair emeritus) - Vanderbilt University Heard Libraries. steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu
David Bloom - VertNET, TDWG Chair dbloom@vertnet.org
David Fichtmueller - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) Berlin. D.Fichtmueller@bgbm.org
Erica Krimmel - Independent ekrimmel@gmail.com
John Kunze - jakkbl@gmail.com
Kristen (Kit) Lewers - University of Colorado. kristen.lewers@colorado.edu
James Macklin - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. james.macklin@agr.gc.ca
Raïssa Meyer - Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. GBWG raissa.meyer@awi.de
Nicky Nicolson - n.nicolson@kew.org
Tim Robertson - Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) trobertson@gbif.org
David Shorthouse - davidpshorthouse@gmail.com
Cecilie Svenningsen - Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) csvenningsen@gbif.org
Greg Whitbread - whitbread.greg@gmail.com
John Wieczorek - Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Rauthiflor LLC. gtuco.btuco@gmail.com
Revised 2025-03-05