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John,<br>
<br>
I would like to suggest that somewhere in your revised proposal you
state explicitly that "MaterialSample" be used as the controlled string
value when a literal value is given for dwc:basisOfRecord (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#basisOfRecord">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#basisOfRecord</a>). The current
convention for other type vocabulary values has been to use the last
part of the URI (e.g. "HumanObservation" for
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/HumanObservation">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/HumanObservation</a> and "Event" for
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Event">http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Event</a>). If that pattern were followed,
some users might provide "OBI_0100051" as the string and based on what
you wrote below, I don't think that is what you intend.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
John Deck wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAH_VTFVjyc0dFJFnLNcHu55xQYno3hr7mf00arpM2-Eym_1jag@mail.gmail.com"
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style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">NOTE:
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Following
discussion on the TDWG content list, discussions with OBI developers,
and discussions with MIxS developers, we have modified the original
Material Sample Term Proposal in the following document. </span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">The
original document sent to the Darwin Core community for Material Sample
proposed the OBI term Material Sample (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000747"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000747</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">),
which we are now modifying to instead reference OBI Specimen (</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">).
The reason for this change is that it came to light that the intention
of OBI Material Sample “should be representative of the whole from
which it is sampled”. Since this definition places an unnecessary
constraint on its use we have opted to use OBI Specimen instead, which
is more closely aligned with our original intent. In addition to this
change, we have also modified the proposal based on the feedback from
this list.</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>-John
Deck, Rob Guralnick, Ramona Walls<br>
<br>
</span>
<div><span>****</span>
<div><span><br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">New
Term Request: Material Sample</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">This
is a proposal for two new terms in Darwin Core, relating to the
addition of the concept, “Material Sample”, described by the identifier</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">.
The two terms are:</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">1)
A new BasisOfRecord term MaterialSample with label “Material Sample”
that references </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">2)
A new Darwin Core property term, MaterialSampleID.</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Submitters:
John Deck, Rob Guralnick and Ramona Walls</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Justification</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">The
current values in the DwC Type Vocabulary (</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">)
do well in representing some types of biocollections and observations.
However, the more general notion of a sample is not well represented,
because the existing terms are too specific. For example, the DwC
terms “Preserved Specimen”, “Fossil Specimen”, and “Living Specimen”
are appropriate for use in the museum community but assume particular
properties pertaining to museum collections, which “material samples”
may or may not have. Examples of “material samples” we are considering
(beyond the examples above) are surveys that involve soil and water
sampling, bulk sampling of specimens from, e.g., trawls,
microbiological sampling, metagenomics, etc. These sampling approaches
often rely on field sub-sampling processes and laboratory techniques
(e.g., DNA extraction and sequencing) which transform the physical
material and produce distinct information content and thus represent a
type of information that is distinct from what DwC has typically dealt
with. The proposal for adding “Material Sample” as a DwC class is to
maintain consistency with the way Darwin Core terms are managed and
organized. This term comes from the Ontology for Biomedical
Investigations (OBI) class OBI:specimen. We use the class concept
definition directly from OBI but provide the more familiar label
“Material Sample” for use within the biodiversity community and
annotate how that definition applies in the domain of biological
collections.</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">A
“material sample” can pertain to general matter in which organisms may
exist, in whole, in part, or in conjunction with many other organisms.
The “material sample” may exist for a brief period, such as a tissue
that is converted to extracted DNA. It may also represent a collection
of multiple taxa, such as a soil or water sample that is used with the
intention of describing the diversity of organisms, whether the actual
organisms are later recovered from such a sample, or whether that
sample is processed in order to generate a set of derivatives from
organisms (e.g.16S sequences from a metagenomics run). A “material
sample” may also yield connections to other indicators of biodiversity
aside from taxa, such as a transcriptome, indicating which DNA is
actively being expressed at a particular point in time. </span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">For
the purposes of biological collections, we can think of “material </span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">sample</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">”
as any type of matter that we can use in order derive further evidence
needed for identification of taxa, whether it is taxonomically
homogenous, heterogenous, a single individual, sets of individuals, or
populations. However, the definition of the term does not exclude its
use in broader contexts outside the scope of biological collections.</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">How
is the term “Material Sample” different from “Individual”? The intent
of individualID is fairly clear: since an Occurrence represents an
organism at a place and time, the individualID term allows us to assign
an instance identifier for a particular organism that can be present </span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline;">in</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
at multiple events. MaterialSampleID, on the other hand, is intended to
allow users to say that the basis of an occurence is a material entity
(i.e. matter) that has been sampled according to some particular
method. Whether or not this material entity is an individual (sensu
individualID in DwC) represents an independent axis of classification.
There is no restriction on specifying that an occurence is associated
with more than one type, so any occurrence can have both an
individualID and a materialSampleID.</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Adding
this term will help align DwC to two other significant projects: the
Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), from which we will be
adapting this term, and the MIxS family of checklists. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">The
MIxS vocabulary is proposing to adopt MaterialSampleID by clarifying
the existing term source_mat_id to read:</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">“A
unique identifier assigned to a material sample (as defined by </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialSampleID"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialSampleID</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">,
and as opposed to a particular digital record of a material sample)
used for extracting nucleic acids, and subsequent sequencing. The
identifier can refer either to the original material collected or to
any derived sub-samples. The INSDC qualifiers /specimen_voucher,
/bio_material, or /culture_collection provide additional context and
suggested syntax for this identifier for data submitted to INSDC
databases.”</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">The
MIxS source_mat_id term clarification proposal is pending based on the
outcome of this proposal. </span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Connecting
a DwC Record to a MIxS record would have the advantage of aligning DwC
terminology (geospatial, taxonomic) with sequencing terminology
(investigation, environment, nucleic acid sequence source, sequencing)
and with OBI (investigation, roles, processes), using “Material Sample”
as the pivot point between the standards.</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Definition:</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">From
OBI ((</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">):
“A material entity that has the specimen role.”</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">A
specimen role (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000112"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000112</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">)
in OBI is defined as “a role borne by a material entity that is gained
during a specimen creation process and that can be realized by use of
the specimen in an investigation”. The operative word is “can”. That
is, the specimen is not </span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">required</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
to be realized by use in an investigation. However, it is worth
nothing that deposition into a museum or biobank can fulfill the
criteria of “use in an investigation”, if necessary (for discussion,
see </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/677/"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://sourceforge.net/p/obi/obi-terms/677/</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">).
</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
We have chosen to use the label “Material Sample” instead of using the
OBI label “Specimen” for this definition. This allows us to distinguish
this term from other types containing the word “Specimen” currently in
use in the Darwin Core vocabulary, which have their own meaning,
distinct from the concept we are proposing. In the natural history
community, biological specimens have a colloquial meaning, typically
referring to a voucher held by a biorepository for research. We
intend a more inclusive definition, and thus, when we refer to “DwC
Material Sample” here, we are actually referring to the class of
entities defined by “OBI Specimen”. </span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">In
order to clarify how this definition may be considered in a biological
collections context, we wish to include a </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.w3.org/2000/01/</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">rdf</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">-schema#comment</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
annotation within the DwC vocabulary</span><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">which
would read: “In biological collections, the material sample is
typically collected, and either preserved, transformed by some process,
or destructively processed” Further clarification on the use of this
term, including this document, would be provided in the supplementary
documentation and the Darwin Core wiki.</span></p>
<br>
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style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
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style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Comment:
N/A</span></p>
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style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Refines:
N/A</span></p>
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style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Has
Domain: N/A</span></p>
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style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Has
Range: N/A</span></p>
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style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Replaces:
N/A</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary:</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Term
Name: MaterialSample</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Identifier:</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialSample"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/MaterialSample</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Namespace:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http:/">http:/</a></span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms" style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">rs.tdwg.org/dwctype/</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Label:
Material Sample</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Definition:
A resource describing the physical results of a sampling (or
subsampling) event. In biological collections, the material sample is
typically collected, and either preserved or destructively processed.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Comment:
For discussion see</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/DwCTypeVocabulary"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/DwCTypeVocabulary</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
(there will be no further documentation here until the term is ratified)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Type
of Term:</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Refines:</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000747"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span></a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100051</span></a><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000747"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Status:
proposed</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Date
Issued: 2013-03-28</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Date
Modified: 2013-05-25</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Has
Domain:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Has
Range:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Refines:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Version:
MaterialSample-2013-06-24</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Replaces:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">IsReplaceBy:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Class:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">ABCD
2.0.6: not in ABCD (someone please confirm or deny this)</span></p>
<br>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Term
Name: materialSampleID</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Identifier:</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialSample"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialSampleID</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Namespace:</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialSample"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Label:
Material Sample ID</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Definition:
An identifier for the MaterialSample (as opposed to a particular
digital record of the material sample). In the absence of a persistent
global unique identifier, construct one from a combination of
identifiers in the record that will most closely make the
materialSampleID globally unique.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Comment:
For discussion see</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/MaterialSample"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/MaterialSample</span></a><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
(this page will not exist until the term is ratified).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Type
of Term:</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Refines:</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Status:
proposed</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Date
Issued: 2013-03-28</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Date
Modified: 2013-05-25</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Has
Domain:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Has
Range:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Version:
materialSampleID-2013-05-25</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Replaces:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">IsReplaceBy:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Class:</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence"
style="text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence</span></a></p>
<span
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">ABCD
2.0.6: not in ABCD (someone please confirm or deny this)</span></span><br
clear="all">
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
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Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences
postal mail address:
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