Our 6th TaxonWorks Together 19-21 May 2026. Join us for 3 days of activities centered around building the collective TaxonWorks community within the broader context of biodiversity informatics around the world, highlighting what's new, changed, and on the horizon. Activities range from highly guided, to un-conference style, with informational (demos, new features, participant presentations) and conversational (e.g. round-table, Q & A) opportunities mixed throughout. As always, we invite new audiences to join us to gather insights for tailoring future directions, our topics will range from those involving TaxonWorks directly (how can we improve) to grand-challenges facing or collective communities (e.g. data quality, semantics and standards, sustaining communities, agency).
Expect lots of opportunities to ask questions, meet others, and to contribute the conversation, your feedback and contributions will make a difference.
Taxonomists, students, ecologists, curators, collection managers, software developers, biodiversity information scientists, para-taxonomists. If you have questions about TaxonWorks this is a great time to ask them. If you have a vision to share, this is the place. Whether you are very familiar with TaxonWorks or new to our community, all are welcome.

The third TaxonWorks Annual Awards! To help celebrate over 11 years of development behind TaxonWorks and its community we look forward to this fun light-hearted event that recognizes the diverse contributions to our community. We ask anyone connected to our network to nominate folks. Winners all receive TaxonWorks swag. Please join us in congratulating everyone and thanks for your nominations and awardee updates coming from the broader community.
Send email to dlpaulillinoisedu or chat (Matrix/Element or Slack, both rooms are linked) with a member of the Species File Group.