What's new on the UISIC pages

• 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.