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I looked up "hasPart" and "isPartOf" and came up with:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-hasPart">http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-hasPart</a><br>
and<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isPartOf">http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isPartOf</a><br>
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The RDF associated with the URIs:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart">http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart</a> (i.e. dcterms:hasPart)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf">http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf</a> (i.e. dcterms:isPartOf)<br>
seems relatively "safe" in that I don't think it implies anything that
is not true about the relationship between "composite" Individuals and
their child/subset Individuals that have been identified to a more
precise taxonomic level. Both terms are subproperties of
dcterms:relation which also seems to correctly represent the connection
between the parent and child Individuals.<br>
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If one wanted to convey more information about the relationship (such
as the fact that the child Individuals would be members of all of the
taxonomic groups that their parents were members of, or things like
that), I suppose one could define more specific DwC properties (perhaps
subproperties of dcterms:hasPart and dcterms:isPartOf) that carried
more "baggage". Again, careful thought would be needed first.<br>
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Steve<br>
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Richard Pyle wrote:
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Maybe the "somethings" will all be identified to the same species, and maybe
they'll all be identified to different species. When we get to that stage,
if more than one taxon is represented within what was previosuly regarded as
a single Individual, then we generate new Individual instances that
correspond to the different taxon identifications, and tag them accordingly
with their own Identifications (maintaining, of course, the approproiate
"derived from" relatioships among the Individuals).
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<pre wrap="">They will want to relate that specimen back
to the jar it came from.
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Yes, definitely! We certainly want to have a mechanism to address Dean's
point about Individuals derived from Individuals, whether it be a
parent-child sort of derivation, or something more general, is a topic for
another thread.
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