The MRTG work on the following practical issues;

• Refinement of the draft MM Metadata standards,
• Technical implementation of mobilising MM data (especially development of MM data repositories),
• Roles and implication for GBIF Participants in mobilising MM data, especially evaluation of trade-offs in terms of -
• advancing knowledge (what specific areas of biodiversity science and questions would be advanced by the multimedia repositories and how important are these relative to other priorities), and
• analysis of the capacity of the biodiversity community (especially GBIF Participants) in mobilising Multimedia Resources.
• Integration of authority services (names, localities, etc.) into MM resources management tools to improve the quality of MM data,
• Inventory of products, tools, standards and processes used for annotation, quality enhancement, and management of biodiversity-related MM artifacts.
• Outline requirements of a training manual for MM data mobilisation. (What should the training manual contain, and what should be its target audience?)

The sub-group will be required to submit its technical report on or before March 21, 2009. The GBIF Science Committee will review the report in its meeting scheduled for April 2009. Comments and suggestions towards the issues to be debated by the MRTG sub-group may kindly be addressed to Vishwas Chavan, Senior Programme Officer for DIGIT (email: vchavan@gbif.org)