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I think both dwc:recordedBy for the Occurrence and dcterms:created for
some tokens should be provided. Depending on the situation, they might
be different entities (I think John Wieczorek pointed this out in an
earlier thread). dwc:recordedBy is specifically supposed to be a
person whereas I think dcterms:creator could be a person or an
institution. For example, if the token is a PreservedSpecimen, one
might want to consider the specimen to have been created by the museum
or herbarium rather than the collector. Also, there could be
Occurrences without tokens (like human observations, unless you go with
Rich's "memory" as a token), and images that are serving as tokens
might be part of a database that includes images that are NOT serving
as tokens for Occurrences (and in that case consumers who aren't
interested in biodiversity information would like to know the
dcterms:creator without having to look at the Occurrence record).<br>
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Steve<br>
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Cam Webb wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Q2-4. If the "token" is separated from the Occurrence, then
dwc:recordedBy is a property of the Occurrence and dcterms:created and
dcterms:creator are properties of the token (if it's a create-able
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Is there any benefit to specifying both OccurrenceX dwc:recordedBy PersonY
and TokenX dcterms:creator PersonY? If not, which is the more `natural'
home for the information? I think it would be TokenX dcterms:creator
PersonY.
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