[tdwg-content] Fwd: BasisOfrecord flavors; which one to choose
John R. WIECZOREK
tuco at berkeley.edu
Tue Feb 9 18:09:38 CET 2010
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From: Francisco Pando <pando at gbif.es>
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: BasisOfrecord flavors; which one to choose
To: "John R. WIECZOREK" <tuco at berkeley.edu>
Cc: "dremsen at gbif.org" <dremsen at gbif.org>
Hi John,
Thanks a lot, I have a clearer picture now. Please go ahead and post
whatever you think could be useful of this on TDWG-Content.
All the best,
Paco
Francisco Pando
Responsable
GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación Tel.+34 91 420 3017 x 274
Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC Fax +34 91 429 2405
Plaza de Murillo, 2 pando at gbif.es
28014 Madrid, Spain www.gbif.es
*From:* gtuco.btuco at gmail.com [mailto:gtuco.btuco at gmail.com] *On
Behalf Of *John
R. WIECZOREK
*Sent:* martes, 09 de febrero de 2010 17:25
*To:* Francisco Pando
*Cc:* dremsen at gbif.org
*Subject:* Re: BasisOfrecord flavors; which one to choose
Hi Paco,
The only difference between the first list (
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm) and the third list (
http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/DwCTypeVocabulary) is the Event
term. Actually I believe that the Event term shouldn't be on the first list,
because it is a Dublin Core term and already a controlled vocabulary term
for dcterms:type. I think you should go under that assumption. In any case,
I doubt that people will want to share biodiversity records that are Events
that are not one of the subtypes of Events on the third list. I updated the
Google Code wiki page to be more explicit that the Event and PhysicalObject
terms come from Dublin Core.
There has been some discussion on the tdwg-content list about other possible
basisOfRecord vocabulary to try to better distinguish digital media. The
original argument for this is captured in an Issue on the Darwin Core Google
Code site at http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=68. This
is a good example of how the type vocabulary might be expanded to cover new
cases.
I don't know what to tell you about the GBIF vocabulary except that it was
devised in April of last year before the type vocabularies for Darwin Core
reached their current state of maturity.
As this discussion may be useful to others, I'd like to request that you
post it to tdwg-content as well, or give me permission to do so.
Hope that helps,
John
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Francisco Pando <pando at gbif.es> wrote:
Dear David, dear John,
We are in the process of updating some of our software to make it compliant
with the approved DwC standard. We decided to start on something we thought
it was easy, BasisOfrecord. However we found:
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm
"The Type Vocabulary is a recommended set of values to use for the
basisOfRecord term to categorize Darwin Core resources."
*Vocabulary for basisOfRecord*
Occurrence<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#Occurrence>
Event <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#Event>
Location <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#Location>
Taxon <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#Taxon>
PreservedSpecimen<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#PreservedSpecimen>
FossilSpecimen<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#FossilSpecimen>
LivingSpecimen<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#LivingSpecimen>
HumanObservation<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#HumanObservation>
MachineObservation<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#MachineObservation>
NomenclaturalChecklist<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm#NomenclaturalChecklist>
Date Modified: 2009-12-07
http://vocabularies.gbif.org/vocabularies/basis_of_record
Concepts in the *basisOfRecord* vocabulary
FossilSpecimen <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/FossilSpecimen>
HumanObservation<http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/HumanObservation>
LivingSpecimen <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/LivingSpecimen>
MachineObservation<http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/MachineObservation>
MovingImage <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/MovingImage>
NomenclaturalAct<http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/NomenclaturalAct>
PreservedSpecimen<http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/PreservedSpecimen>
StillImage <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/StillImage>
TaxonDistribution<http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/TaxonDistribution>
TaxonName <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/TaxonName>
TaxonNameUsage <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/basis_of_record/TaxonNameUsage>
Submitted by admin <http://vocabularies.gbif.org/users/admin> on Tue,
2009-04-21 23:34
http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/DwCTypeVocabulary
The Type Vocabulary used in Darwin Core consists of two parts, vocabulary to
describe the record in terms consistent with the Dublin Core Type vocabulary
(using the dcterms:type term) and vocabulary to describe the specific
biodiversity-related content for a record (using the basisOfRecord term).
The list of valid values for the basisOfRecord include:
*Term*
*Subtype of*
Occurrence
Event
PreservedSpecimen
PhysicalObject
FossilSpecimen
PhysicalObject
LivingSpecimen
PhysicalObject
HumanObservation
Event
MachineObservation
Event
Taxon
Location
NomenclaturalChecklist
Updated Jan 17, 2010 by gtuco.btuco
I seems safer to go for the Google Code option, but shouldn’t the three
sources be coherent?
Best wishes,
Paco
Francisco Pando
Responsable
GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación Tel.+34 91 420 3017 x 274
Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC Fax +34 91 429 2405
Plaza de Murillo, 2 pando at gbif.es
28014 Madrid, Spain www.gbif.es
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