What's new on the UISIC pages

• Updated the Basic Cave Mapping Symbols page with the addition of colour to some of the symbols, and moved the location of the symbols from Andreas Neumann's server to the UIS server.
• Updated the web page for Survey and Mapping's T-LIDAR Project.

• Added an About UISIC page.
• Various updates to the Contacts page.

• Added new President: Stefan Näff of Switzerland.

• Survey & mapping:
• Added the UIS standard for artificial cavity mapping symbols, and its final voting.
• Updated links to email addresses.
• Changed nomenclature from working groups to sub-commissions and projects to suit the new UIS nomenclature.
• Accents added to delegates' names.
• General update to the section on Cave Survey Data Exchange Format.
• Home page: Miscellaneous updates.

• Updated the link to the IGU (International Geographical Union) in the web pages for the Exchange Proposal and Survey & Mapping.

• Updated the page for applying for the position of the UISIC President. An opportunity to advance cave and karst documentation.

• Updated the UIS Caver's Multi-lingual Dictionary to include:
  • Links to English definitions for the Dictionary's terms in the new UIS Glossary.
  • A new page that groups Dictionary Concepts by speleo subject.
  • Updates to three Dictionary terms, the Intro page, and the Sending-a-new-language page. Details.
• Updated Introduction page etc for UIS Speleo Subject Classification Codes, but not the codes themselves.

• Updated the details and progress of the UIS Glossary Project.
• Published Stage 1 of the English version of the UIS Cave and Karst Glossary.

• Updated the details and progress of the Glossary Project.
• Added an initial draft of the new UIS Glossary.

• Expanded the details and progress of the Glossary Project including the addition of a Glossary forum.
• Rationalised the name of the Dictionary Sub-commission through the site's pages.

• Added the Slovak language to the Multi-lingual Dictionary, and fixed the Dictionary's several broken external links.
• Showed the UISIC Presidency as being vacant, and added a page inviting applications.
• Showed more details of the Glossary Project.
• Showed more details of the KDI format Project.
• Substituted a slightly updated version of the UISIC Report 2017-2022.

• Added UISIC Report 2022.
• Updated Publications Exchange web page with 2022 Report, new spreadsheet, etc.
• Added KarstLink News item re sessions at the ICS.

• Added the cavedata forums (in right-hand column).

• Updated Home page to show Vice-President.
• Updated Home page to show two new projects: Guidelines for responsible cave data sharing, and GrottoCenter updates for data protection.

• Updated the web pages for the KarstLink Sub-commission in English and French.
• Updated the web page for the UIS-WikiCaves Sub-commission.

• Updated the web pages for the KarstLink Sub-commission in English and French.

• On the Home page, changed UISIC's group nomenclature from Working Groups to Sub-commissions and Projects, to better fit with the UIS structure changes of 2017.
• Updated the Commission's list of groups on the Home page.
• Added web pages for the new KarstLink Sub-commission in English and French.

• Added links to several further speleo glossaries in the Caver's Multi-lingual Dictionary.

• Added Pinyin to Chinese in the Caver's Multi-lingual Dictionary, together with other Dictionary updates.

• Added Chinese(Simplified) to the Caver's Multi-lingual Dictionary, together with other Dictionary updates.
• Updated Leader of Publications Exchange group.

• Added UISIC Report 2013-2017.
• Updated the Publications Exchange page, including the official release of the 21-page Publications Exchange Guidelines and the publications Exchange Status spreadsheet. This is a significant resource and is the result of over four years of discussion by speleo librarians and others, led by Trevor Faulkner of the UK.

• Added Arabic & Turkish to the Caver's Multi-lingual Dictionary.

• Updated documents in Working Group: Publications Exchange

• Updated link to the Karst Surface Map Symbols website on the Survey & Mapping page.
• Added link to Google Earth karst placemarkers website on the Survey & Mapping page.

• Added link to membership form for UIS-WikiCaves Working Group.

• Added new Working Groups: Publications Exchange, UIS-WikiCaves (Global cave & karst data).
• Updated Working Groups: T-LiDAR Cave Scanning, Artificial Cavity Mapping Symbols.

• Added a French term to Concept 87 in Cavers Multi-lingual Dictionary.

• Updated numerous broken links, mainly for people contact details, caused by the move of the main UIS website to a new server.

1994-11-01

• Initial release.