Easily done. Issue 81 (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=81">http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=81</a>) has been closed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Steve Baskauf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In my previous understanding of Occurrence in which a single token was<br>
incorporated as a part of an Occurrence, I considered an Individual to<br>
have ceased to exist and to have become an Occurrence of type<br>
LivingSpecimen when it was collected to be part of a collection (e.g.<br>
zoo). Given this understanding, I felt that there were few or no cases<br>
where the establishmentMeans of an Individual would change (excluding<br>
its capture and incorporation in a collection) and therefore it made<br>
sense for having a single establishmentMeans value for the individual.<br>
However, under the apparent consensus opinion that the token documenting<br>
an Occurrence is a separate entity, I no longer believe that there is<br>
any purpose in recognizing an entity called "LivingSpecimen". A living<br>
specimen is simply an individual with curation information. The token<br>
for an Occurrence that involves the collection of a living specimen is<br>
the Individual itself (in the case of removal of the entire organism) or<br>
a different Individual (i.e. in the case where a new individual is<br>
propagated vegetatively from the Individual being documented by the<br>
Occurrence). Given this understanding, the establishmentMeans of an<br>
Individual can change over time, so it is not possible for every<br>
Individual to have a single value for establishmentMeans.<br>
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The consensus that seems to have emerged from the tdwg-content<br>
discussion is that dwc:establishmentMeans is a complex thing that<br>
describes the relationship of an Individual to a Location that can<br>
change over time. I do not see how establishmentMeans is a property of<br>
an Occurrence - in fact it is not clear to me exactly how one applies<br>
establishmentMeans as a property to an instance of any existing DwC<br>
class. But in any case, there does not now seem to be any advantage to<br>
moving it from the class Occurrence to the proposed class Individual, so<br>
I officially withdraw my proposal if that is possible. Alternatively,<br>
the TAG could take a vote and vote the proposal down, but I think that<br>
would be a waste of time.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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