I agree that the meaning of dcterms:source is different from the stated meaning of dwc:occurrenceDetails. The latter term originated with OBIS as <div><br></div><div>recordURL - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Gives the web address of the page where more information on this particular record (not on the whole dataset) can be found.</span><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">and was re-cast in Darwin Core 1.4 as </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div>relatedInformation - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Free text references to information not delivered via the conceptual schema, including URLs to specimen details, publications, bibliographic references, etc.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>and is currently defined as</div><div><br></div><div>occurrenceDetails - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">A reference (publication, URI) to the most detailed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">information available about the Occurrence.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>So, one could argue that the dcterms:source is not necessarily the most detailed information available, and it would certainly not be only about Occurrences. </div><div><br></div><div>So, occurrenceDetails certainly is no substitute for dcterms:source, and dcterms:source doesn't exactly circumscribe occurrenceDetails as defined. Nevertheless, the concepts are so nearly the same in definition, and certainly in intent, that I propose that adding dcterms:source obviates the need for occurrenceDetails as it will sufficiently cover the intended use of occurrenceDetails while allowing the same for all record types.<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Gregor Hagedorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com">g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I think the two terms are different.<br>
<br>
my understanding is that dcterms source expresses a relation between a<br>
(usually digital) record and another record, that is derived from the<br>
first.<br>
<br>
I think this is very useful in DwC in cases, where records are taken<br>
directly from a publication.<br>
<br>
However, it does not replace the fact that the source of the record is<br>
the digitization project of collection X and that the record is also<br>
cited in a recent publication.<br>
<br>
I have doubts whether occurrenceDetail is a good label for the latter<br>
concept, however.<br>
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Gregor<br>
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