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    Basically I support the views of Aaike and Donald.&nbsp; Keep the
    quantity and unit separate.&nbsp; No need for special term for
    AbundanceAsPercentage, then.<br>
    <br>
    However, I am a bit uncertain whether "Abundance" is the right
    term.&nbsp; How about "Quantity"?&nbsp; It is more generic, and can be applied
    for example, to a catch of 1000 kg of fish and a harvest of 200
    cubic meters of timber.&nbsp; "Abundance" is semantically not right for
    those measures.<br>
    <br>
    I also think that a range for the quantity is needed, to express
    uncertainty about the quantity. I saw about 1000 geese this morning,
    certainly more than 500 but less than 2000.&nbsp; Uncertainty is so
    common in sightings.<br>
    <br>
    Are we also going to deprecate "IndividualCount"?&nbsp; I hope so.<br>
    <br>
    Hannu<br>
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Hannu Saarenmaa, Research Director
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    On 2013-09-26 18:07, Donald Hobern [GBIF] wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">Hi Rob.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">I understand your concern, but my concern is with
            the opportunities we are currently missing to enable our
            occurrence mobilisation processes to offer significantly
            more value in many contexts.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">Some of the problem may be in the use of the word
            &#8220;abundance&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp; If we understand &#8220;abundance&#8221; to refer to the
            size and density of a population or species, then a survey
            may give us a workable measure we can use to represent this.
            &nbsp;I am thinking of mobilisation of less ambitious
            measurements of relative abundance of a taxon in any
            sampling event or set of associated observations.&nbsp; I visit a
            reservoir and follow some standard protocol and count 30
            mallards and a single gadwall.&nbsp; Today that might be exposed
            in simple Darwin Core as two occurrence records, each of
            which might somehow include an individualCount.&nbsp; In the
            absence of any other information, this count information
            cannot be seen as much more than an anecdotal annotation.&nbsp;
            If we understood that these two observations were part of a
            single survey event associated with a protocol also used for
            some number of other survey events for which we have
            observations, we could (in principle) find more ways to
            explore the significance of the count and use it to help to
            fine-tune distribution models and to enhance them to
            indicate patterns of abundance.&nbsp; If we can find a way to do
            this consistently for all types of biodiversity observation
            (malaise traps, transects, expression of ITS or CO1 from
            environmental samples), a large number of databases already
            contributing to GBIF and other networks could immediately
            offer a richer view to users and analysts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">I believe we could readily handle this with three
            properties that are available for use with any occurrence &#8211;
            a sampling event id, a sampling protocol identifier (ideally
            a URL leading to information on the protocol) and a relative
            abundance value within that sample.&nbsp; Any occurrence record
            could include these fields if appropriate.&nbsp; Of course more
            normalisation is possible, but DwC has never been about full
            normalisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">We can debate which DwC classes ought to include
            support for such elements.&nbsp; I personally think we&#8217;ve tied
            ourselves in unnecessary knots with our use of Occurrences,
            Events, Material Samples, etc. &nbsp;I wish we just had an agreed
            meta-model/ontology which provides a graph of classes of
            interest to our domain (specimen, collection, taxon concept,
            taxon name, locality, collector, etc.) and a set of uniquely
            named properties each of which is associated with one of
            these classes or links instances of these classes.&nbsp; Darwin
            Core should then allow for the denormalised representation
            of any view corresponding to a subgraph of that model.&nbsp;
            Occurrence, Event, etc. should then be names for
            popularly-used subgraphs and should represent the logic for
            unpacking those denormalised DwC records back into a graph
            of meta-model objects (in other words they should express
            something like what SPARQL query might be able to extract
            this kind of record from data organised using the
            meta-model/ontology).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            Donald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Donald Hobern - GBIF Director - <a
              moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dhobern@gbif.org"><span
                style="color: blue;">dhobern@gbif.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
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            lang="EN-US">Global Biodiversity Information Facility <a
              moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gbif.org/"><span
                style="color: blue;">http://www.gbif.org/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
            font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="DA">GBIF
            Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen &Oslash;,
            Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US">Tel: +45 3532 1471&nbsp; Mob: +45 2875 1471&nbsp; Fax:
            +45 2875 1480<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
              font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"
              lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
            font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"
            lang="EN-US"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:robgur@gmail.com">robgur@gmail.com</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:robgur@gmail.com">mailto:robgur@gmail.com</a>] <b>On
              Behalf Of </b>Robert Guralnick<br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:37 PM<br>
            <b>To:</b> Donald Hobern [GBIF]<br>
            <b>Cc:</b> John Wieczorek; TDWG Content Mailing List<br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-content] Proposed new Darwin Core
            terms - abundance, abundanceAsPercent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; I agree with Donald here regarding
              the need for Abundance, but am, to be honest, not quite I
              understand (or agree) with the logic of the proposal. &nbsp;
              Abundance is listed as a property of an occurrence, and I
              wonder if that make sense given the class definition "The
              category of information pertaining to evidence of an
              occurrence in nature, in a collection, or in a dataset
              (specimen, observation, etc.)" &nbsp;Is abundance "evidence of
              an occurrence in nature". &nbsp;To me, abundance is a property
              of a survey and its associated methodology and is based on
              multiple occurrences that come from a sample and a
              definition of extent. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; It seems to me to be a bad fit to
              scrunch abundance into the occurrence class. &nbsp;I recognize
              that it might not quite fit anywhere in DwC yet. &nbsp;Wouldn't
              it be better to wait to see if materialSample is ratified
              as a class within the Darwin Core?<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">Best, Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Donald
              Hobern [GBIF] &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:dhobern@gbif.org" target="_blank">dhobern@gbif.org</a>&gt;
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, John.<br>
              <br>
              You are correct. &nbsp;I think though that abundance is such a
              commonly needed<br>
              property that it would be a mistake not to make it work
              easily even in<br>
              Simple Darwin Core.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                Donald<br>
                <br>
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                Donald Hobern - GBIF Director - <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dhobern@gbif.org">dhobern@gbif.org</a><br>
                Global Biodiversity Information Facility <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gbif.org/"
                  target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/</a><br>
                GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100
                Copenhagen &Oslash;, Denmark<br>
                Tel: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="tel:%2B45%203532%201471">+45 3532 1471</a> &nbsp;Mob:
                <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%2B45%202875%201471">+45
                  2875 1471</a> &nbsp;Fax: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="tel:%2B45%202875%201480">+45 2875 1480</a><br>
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                <br>
                <br>
                -----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">From: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:gtuco.btuco@gmail.com">gtuco.btuco@gmail.com</a>
                  [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:gtuco.btuco@gmail.com">gtuco.btuco@gmail.com</a>]
                  On Behalf Of John<br>
                  Wieczorek<br>
                  Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 3:48 PM<br>
                  To: Donald Hobern [GBIF]<br>
                  Cc: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.be">aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.be</a>;
                  TDWG Content Mailing List<br>
                  Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Proposed new Darwin Core
                  terms - abundance,<br>
                  abundanceAsPercent<br>
                  <br>
                  Could every concept of abundance be captured in a
                  combination of abundance,<br>
                  abundanceUnit, abundanceMethod?<br>
                  <br>
                  If so, is there justification for creating new terms
                  at all if the concepts<br>
                  can be captured in MeasurentsOrFacts<br>
                  (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#measureindex"
                    target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#measureindex</a>),
                  which have the<br>
                  following properties?<br>
                  <br>
                  measurementType<br>
                  measurementValue<br>
                  measurementAccuracy<br>
                  measurementUnit<br>
                  measurementDeterminedDate<br>
                  measurementDeterminedBy<br>
                  measurementMethod<br>
                  measurementRemarks<br>
                  <br>
                  The only drawback I can see is that with
                  MeasurementOrFacts you could not<br>
                  share the abunance information in Simple Darwin Core.
                  To understand why, see<br>
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/simple/index.htm#rules"
                    target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/simple/index.htm#rules</a>.<br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Donald Hobern [GBIF]
                  &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:dhobern@gbif.org">dhobern@gbif.org</a>&gt;<br>
                  wrote:<br>
                  &gt; Thanks - I think I too have missed something. &nbsp;If
                  we want to make<br>
                  &gt; these terms usable, there needs to be a simple
                  way to get numbers out<br>
                  &gt; of records that can be compared with one another
                  where sampling<br>
                  &gt; methods allow such comparisons. &nbsp;The suggested
                  plain text examples for<br>
                  &gt; Abundance don't make this possible. &nbsp;Forcing
                  normalisation into<br>
                  &gt; percentages seems an unnecessary hurdle and risks
                  encouraging the<br>
                  &gt; impression that number of ducks on a reservoir is
                  somehow comparable<br>
                  &gt; with percentage dry mass, proportional expression
                  of CO1 for a<br>
                  &gt; particular species in an ecogenomics sample, or
                  whatever.<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; I would much rather we ensured we had a standard,
                  preferred field<br>
                  &gt; which the data publisher can populate directly
                  with whatever number is<br>
                  &gt; the most appropriate expression of the relative
                  abundance in the<br>
                  &gt; sample. &nbsp;That gives consumers a clear expectation
                  of how to interpret and<br>
                  handle it.<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; Donald<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt;
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                  &gt; Donald Hobern - GBIF Director - <a
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                  GBIF Secretariat,<br>
                  &gt; Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen &Oslash;,
                  Denmark<br>
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                    href="tel:%2B45%203532%201471">+45 3532 1471</a>
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                  &gt;
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                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; -----Original Message-----<br>
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                  On Behalf Of Aaike De<br>
                  &gt; Wever<br>
                  &gt; Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:44 AM<br>
                  &gt; To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:tuco@berkeley.edu">tuco@berkeley.edu</a>;
                  TDWG Content Mailing List<br>
                  &gt; Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Proposed new Darwin
                  Core terms -<br>
                  &gt; abundance, abundanceAsPercent<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; Dear all,<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; As somewhat of an outsider I have another
                  question with regards to the<br>
                  &gt; proposed terms abundance and abundanceAsPercent.<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; Is there a specific reason for not adopting:<br>
                  &gt; * the abundance field as a field to store only
                  the value and<br>
                  &gt; * a field abundanceUnit/abundanceType to specify
                  whether the value is<br>
                  &gt; in % of species, % of biovolume, % of biomass,
                  individuals/l,<br>
                  &gt; ind./m^2, ind/m^3, ind./sampling
                  effort,...(instead of having a field<br>
                  specific for %)?<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; Maybe this has been discussed during the
                  hackathon and I missed it in<br>
                  &gt; the report?<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; Thanks for considering this question.<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; With best regards,<br>
                  &gt; Aaike<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; John Wieczorek wrote:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Dear all,<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; GBIF has just published "Meeting Report: GBIF
                  hackathon-workshop on<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Darwin Core and sample data (22-24 May 2013)"
                  at<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=5424"
                    target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=5424</a>.
                  Now that this document is<br>
                  &gt;&gt; available for public reference, I would like
                  to formally open the<br>
                  &gt;&gt; minimum 30-day comment period on two related
                  new terms proposed<br>
                  &gt;&gt; during the workshop and defined in the
                  referenced document.<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; The formal proposal would add the following
                  new terms:<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Term Name: abundance<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Identifier: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/abundance"
                    target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/abundance</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; Namespace: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http:/">http:/</a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/" target="_blank">rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; Label: Abundance<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Definition: The number of individuals of a
                  taxon found in a sample.<br>
                  &gt;&gt; This is typically expressed as number per
                  unit of area or volume. In<br>
                  &gt;&gt; the case of vegetation and
                  colonial/encrusting species, percent cover<br>
                  &gt;&gt; can be used.<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Comment: Examples: "4 per square meter",
                  "0.32 per cubic meter",<br>
                  &gt;&gt; "24%". For discussion see<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence"
                    target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence</a>
                  (there will be no<br>
                  &gt;&gt; further documentation here until the term is
                  ratified) Type of Term:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"
                    target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; Refines:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Status: proposed<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Date Issued: 2012-03-01<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Date Modified: 2013-09-25<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Has Domain:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Has Range:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Refines:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Version: abundance-2013-09-25<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Replaces:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; IsReplaceBy:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Class: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence"
                    target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; ABCD 2.0.6: not in ABCD (someone please
                  confirm or deny this)<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Term Name: abundanceAsPercent<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Identifier: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/abundanceAsPercent"
                    target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/abundanceAsPercent</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; Namespace: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http:/">http:/</a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/" target="_blank">rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; Label: Abundance as Percent<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Definition: 100 times the number of
                  individuals of a taxon found in a<br>
                  &gt;&gt; sample divided by the total number of
                  individuals of all taxa in the<br>
                  &gt;&gt; sample.<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Comment: Examples: "2.4%". For discussion see<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence"
                    target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence</a>
                  (there will be no<br>
                  &gt;&gt; further documentation here until the term is
                  ratified) Type of Term:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"
                    target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; Refines:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Status: proposed<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Date Issued: 2012-08-01<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Date Modified: 2013-09-25<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Has Domain:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Has Range:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Refines:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Version: abundanceAsPercent-2013-09-25<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Replaces:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; IsReplaceBy:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Class: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence"
                    target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; ABCD 2.0.6: not in ABCD (someone please
                  confirm or deny this)<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; The related issues in the Darwin Core issue
                  tracker are<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=142"
                    target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=142</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt; and<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=187"
                    target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=187</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; If there are any objections to the changes
                  proposed for these new<br>
                  &gt;&gt; terms, or comments about their definitions,
                  please respond to this<br>
                  &gt;&gt; message. If there are no objections or if
                  consensus can be reached on<br>
                  &gt;&gt; any amendments put forward, the proposal will
                  go before the Executive<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Committee for authorization to put these
                  additions into effect after<br>
                  &gt;&gt; the public commentary period.<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Cheers,<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; John<br>
                  &gt;&gt;
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                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; --<br>
                  &gt; Aaike De Wever<br>
                  &gt; BioFresh Science Officer<br>
                  &gt; Freshwater Laboratory, Royal Belgian Institute of
                  Natural Sciences<br>
                  &gt; Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels Belgium<br>
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                  &gt; email: &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.be">aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.be</a>&gt;<br>
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                  &gt; BioFresh: &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/"
                    target="_blank">http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/</a>&gt;
                  and<br>
                  &gt; &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/"
                    target="_blank">http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/</a>&gt;<br>
                  &gt; Belgian Biodiversity Platform: &lt;<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.biodiversity.be" target="_blank">http://www.biodiversity.be</a>&gt;<br>
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