[tdwg-content] Proposed new Darwin Core environmental terms from ENVO

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Steve Baskauf wrote:

> I suppose if people want to be unambiguous, they should just use URIs. 

Exactly that.

> Unfortunately, I'm not aware of URIs for the terms from various systems of describing biomes.

To the extent that unawareness is to be supported, this can be solved through better documentation.

>   I suppose someone could mint terms if they cared about this.

Certainly not - minting random terms whose semantic content consists solely of a non-resolving URI string or a string in whatever natural language is barely better than providing no value at all. 

> Or use ENVO uris.


Yes, indeed. If they don't exist yet, ask that they do. That's the way to build community ontologies - by a community actively working to make the ontology what it needs it to be.

	-hilmar
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