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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Matt,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ll take the chance to make a few quick comments here, because I believe that this work is of massive importance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Clearly DwC should avoid trying to duplicate well-standardised models and protocols. However at the same time, there is enormous value for producers and consumers of DwC to benefit from richer data on the events and methods associated with individual species occurrences. I have never seen DwC as purely an Occurrence exchange syntax. I see it (from GBIF’s standpoint) more closely as a mechanism for diverse parties to pool the evidence they have for the occurrence of any species including associated information and/or actionable links to associated information. Users coming from this perspective certainly need (and are demanding) access to all the evidence that can be mobilized to serve as supporting evidence and they also need the ability to understand the significance of these records. Abundance measures, levels of effort, use of consistent methods and redetection of individual organisms are all part of this. DwC should be able to transmit as much data as publishers choose to share on such aspects as part of their publishing of DwC. Users of DwC carrying out species modeling, threat assessment or community analyses will benefit from rapid ways to filter data for those which derive from standardized sampling events, to understand relative abundance within samples, etc. Many publishers of DwC are currently sharing stripped-down subsets of data and wish to give more information on these points. Users are certainly demanding it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The challenge is finding the sweet spot, the achievable, non-destructive overlap between DwC and the proper domain of models better designed to handle the representation of complex systems outside DwC’s current domain. If this is done correctly, there should be paths that enable us to generate O&E (and maybe OBOE) compatible data from data that publishers only serve as augmented DwC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ll also note that this has been a prominent area of discussion now for several years. Many of us believe strongly that this is one of the most important ways in which we need to close arbitrary gaps between data silos. It’s a prominent part of the GBIF work programme for 2014-2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Very best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Donald<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Jones<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 22, 2014 4:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF]<br><b>Cc:</b> TDWG Content Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core: proposed news terms for expressing sample data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>This proposal is treading on ground that is quite similar to other observations and measurements standards for data exchange that are already mature, in particular:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>* OGC Observations and Measurements (<a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/om</a>)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>* Extensible Observation Ontology (OBOE; <a href="https://semtools.ecoinformatics.org/oboe">https://semtools.ecoinformatics.org/oboe</a>)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The former is a standard and broadly deployed, whereas the latter is part of a research program in the use of ontologies for measurements. Through collaboration between the two projects, they've been modified to be reasonably isomorphic, but O&M uses an XML serialization while OBOE uses an OWL-DL serialization. They largely express the same measurements and sampling model once one gets beyond the terminology differences.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So, I'm wondering if it make much sense to extend Darwin Core, which is at heart an Occurrence exchange syntax, into this measurements area that is well represented by these other existing specifications? I'm curious to hear why people would even want to do this. And if we do go down this path, won't we just end up with a new syntax that does essentially what O&M and OBOE do now?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Matt<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF] <<a href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org" target="_blank">eotuama@gbif.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Rob, Anne, Rich,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I think Markus has answered your question as to why we opted for an Event core which is being used in the sense described by Anne and Rich. For any event, you can have a list of species in an Occurrence extension and for each species, you can include quantity and quantityType, e.g., biomass, etc. The proposed term eventSeriesID was intended for linking together related events, although it now looks like parentEventID might be a better, more flexible term. The measurementOrFact extension is a good fit for capturing environmental information relating to an event. See, e.g., the Gialova Lagoon brackish water invertebrate test data set [1] where a set of 18 environmental variables, including temp, pH, Rdx, particulate organic matter, dissolved oxygen, salinity, chlorophyll-a were measured for each sampling station-sampling period combination. An example mapping is:</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Id measurementType measurementValue measurementUnit measurementRemarks</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>IA Tmp (sed) 21.5 degree C Tmp (sed): temperature at the bottom surface</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>*<b>Controlled vocabularies</b>*</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Ideally, the values for samplingUnit and quantityType would be selected from controlled vocabularies. This is, effectively, what we do by presenting a small list of values in a drop-down menu. The current values are what we derived for example data sets and discussion but they can undoubtedly be extended and improved.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We capture “bucket” type measures through a combination of samplingEffort, samplingGeometry and samplingUnit. For example, a pitfall trap (in a point location) left out for 16 days might have samplingEffort: 16, samplingGeometry: point and samplingUnit: day. Three m^2 quadrats in a shore survey might have samplingEffort: 3, samplingGeometry: area and samplingUnit: m^2. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>It would be very useful to see your compilation of scope, effort and completeness measures to see if we can express them in our model and/or if we need to reconsider our approach.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Éamonn</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[1] <a href="http://eubon-ipt.gbif.org/resource.do?r=ionian-brackish-lagoon" target="_blank">http://eubon-ipt.gbif.org/resource.do?r=ionian-brackish-lagoon</a> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Markus Döring<br><b>Sent:</b> 20 August 2014 23:47<br><b>To:</b> Robert Guralnick</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><br><b>Cc:</b> TDWG Content Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core: proposed news terms for expressing sample data<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Rob,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>this proposal if for monitoring surveys really, not to be confused with material samples like environmental or tissue samples which have a distinct new dwc class MaterialSample. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>We tend to overload the term sampling a lot and it helps treating material samples different from pure observational "sampling". That is why the existing Event class was used as the core and classic Occurrence records as extensions. A classic example is a vegetation survey where each plot represents an Event record and each recorded species in that plot will be an Occurrence extension record with a given quantity. Darwin Core already offers individualCount to specify quantity, but it is a very specific way of measuring "abundance" restricted to only some use cases. Abiotic measurements about the plot (e.g. soil type, pH, temperature) can be published using the measurements or facts extension linked to the Event core. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Markus<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>On 20 Aug 2014, at 20:08, Robert Guralnick <<a href="mailto:Robert.Guralnick@colorado.edu" target="_blank">Robert.Guralnick@colorado.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> Anne -- I don't know the answers! These are questions for Eamonn. I would presume that a sample could be a jumble of species or even just water or soil samples, and biomass would refer to that sample - but maybe that isn't a use case being considered? The examples given in the longer document all link an event_id to species name and some measure of quantity for that species (to the species, not an individual specimen), so I assume that is the prevailing (or only) case? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Best, Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Anne Thessen <<a href="mailto:annethessen@gmail.com" target="_blank">annethessen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Hi Rob<br>I would like to respond to your item number 2.<br>>From my perspective, I deal with lots of published descriptions of taxa. The text might say something like "I saw species A in the Chesapeake Bay, the Adriatic Sea and the Indian Ocean and the biomass is 5 - 9 grams". The biomass range obviously corresponds to at least three different occurrences, but how to divide the biomass data? I would love to be able to have an *event* to attach it all to. There is almost two different levels of events - a sampling event and a "study event". The "study event" would correspond to the type of event I would like to use in the above example. It may not be ideal, but for the old literature that might be the best we can do. <br>I have to admit that I don't know enough about trawl data to understand why an event core would be a problem. It seems that the trawl would be an event and each biomass measure (of each fish) would be attached to a separate occurrence which is attached to that event. Am I understanding this wrong?<br>btw - I found a workaround for the example I gave, so it's not impossible to model with the current structure....<span style='color:#888888'><br>Anne</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>On 8/20/2014 1:16 PM, Robert Guralnick wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Éamonn et al. --- Thanks for the clarifications. I think these help a ton but it raises a couple more questions for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>1) I am surprised that you plan to use of MeasurementorFact extension in relation to the Event core, which seems like a novel (or perhaps awkward or unintended?) mechanism for capturing environmental data, but the same extension was not be seen as relevant for describing samples? Can you explain more about the thinking there?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>2) There may be a subtle issue here extending "Event" to be more what you call a "Sampling Event Core". My read of this is that Darwin Core serves as a way to deal with point occurrences and Event reflects the context of a single capture event (whether a single observation, or a bulk sample capture). The changes recommended seem to dramatically extend and change that meaning? Its simply a question that I don't have answer to, but is Darwin Core, the right vehicle to start capturing repeated measures of biomass values from trawls? I don't have answer but man, terms like quantityType (as a property of occurrence?) give me pause. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>3) Is Sampling Unit a controlled vocabulary? For another project, I have looked through - and captured scope, effort and completeness measures from - a large number of published biotic area inventories. The vast majorities of these are measured in units like bucket hours, or trap nights. Is a "bucket" part of SamplingGeometry or Sampling Unit? I'd be happy to send along all the many examples of how biotic inventories of an area are completed and perhaps it might be good to see how those might be represented using the terms you are proposing? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Best, Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Richard Pyle <<a href="mailto:deepreef@bishopmuseum.org" target="_blank">deepreef@bishopmuseum.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Same here – Events are central to the work that we do.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Aloha,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rich</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anne Thessen<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org</a></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core: proposed news terms for expressing sample data<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hello<br>I would just like to comment on *event core*.<br>I've been doing a lot of work translating published data into Darwin Core. During that process I've wished several times that I could use Event as core. I am happy to hear about that proposed change. It will make it easier to model the data I am working with.<br>Anne<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 8/20/2014 7:04 AM, Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF] wrote:<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi Rob,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Thank you for the feedback. I have tried to address the two main issues you raise below. At the outset, I would like to emphasise that much of this work is taking place in the context of the EU BON project which includes a task on developing/enhancing tools and standards for data sharing with a particular focus on the IPT for publishing sample-based data. So, we were constrained by the need to publish sample-based data sets in the Darwin Core Archive format and to demonstrate practical application using a working prototype. When the discussion on the TDWG list faded out, we took it to our EU BON partners whose requirements were essential input to further development. We recognise that these discussions took place away from TDWG (although the TDWG/EU BON contributors overlapped) and this is the reason we are presenting the outcomes here for further consideration. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>*<b>Event core</b>*</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>As the SIGS report indicated, sample data can be modelled in Darwin Core Archives using either Occurrence or Event as core. This was the starting point for our evaluation but as things progressed the data wrangling pushed the model back towards the Event core. We actually went through the exercise of mapping multiple test datasets in an iterative process spanning several months' work. In the end, we found that using an Event core better matched the typical sample data we were dealing with, allowing use of a measurement-or-fact extension to be included for the efficient expression of environmental information associated with the event. The choice comes down to an Occurrence core or an Event core + Occurrence extension. In both cases, the true observation records are Occurrences. The big difference is what type the core has and therefore to which kind of records you can attach further facts and extra information with DwC-A extensions. Many sampling datasets have very rich information about the site and event, so it is very natural to hang facts from an Event core. When picking the Occurrence core those facts would have to be repeated for each and every occurrence record. Moreover, our approach doesn’t stop anyone from using the Occurrence core if they so wish. This just provides a different option for datasets that better fit an Event core model.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I want to stress that we are not building a “specific IPT version” to support an Event core but, rather, we adapted the IPT so that it can be configured to support any generic “core + extension” format to enable its use for exploration of more data formats. This is part of the core codebase and there were no custom forks of the IPT for this work. Our view at GBIF is that if there are significant numbers of data publishers who are keen to adopt, promote and use a (any) format, and the tools can be configured to do so, then we should support it, and, if necessary, use a custom namespace.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>*<b>New terms around abundance</b>*</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yes, the discussion on TDWG did fade out but it was clear that the term “abundance” as recommended by the SIGS report (along with abundanceAsPercent) was confusing many when we were looking for term(s) that reported quantitative measures of organisms in a sample. It also became clear we would need to be able to state the type of quantity being measured. An alternative suggestion for using the MeasurementsOrFact class was immediately shot down.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>As some of our main use cases were coming from the EU BON project, discussion shifted to that forum and consensus formed about the currently proposed terms. It was within this group that the additional terms (samplingGeometry, samplingUnit, eventSeriesID) were proposed and where we began testing with sample data sets.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Best regards,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Éamonn</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:robgur@gmail.com" target="_blank">robgur@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:robgur@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:robgur@gmail.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Guralnick<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 August 2014 16:56<br><b>To:</b> Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF]<br><b>Cc:</b> TDWG Content Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-content] Darwin Core: proposed news terms for expressing sample data</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Hi Éamonn --- I am curious about the outcomes presented in the SIGS paper, in particular, this portion of the paper: <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>"Solutions without introducing an event core in Darwin Core Archives: During the review of the solutions for the uses cases, it became apparent that either model could be applied to every use case. The core and extensions bore a complementary relationship and between them could express all the required information. The core simply provided the central anchor in the star schema from which to join the additional information. Therefore, using the Occurrence core, well established in the GBIF network through uptake of the IPT, seemed more appropriate than inventing CollectingEvent as an additional core type."<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> That SIGS paper has John Wieczorek and you both as authors, including many luminaries across the biodiversity standards spectrum. Given the above, its curious to see the EventCore come back again, along with a specific IPT version to support it. <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> So I see two issues, conflated, in this post you just made. One is the need for an EventCore at all, and the nature of relating Event and Occurrence/Material Sample. The second is the introduction of new terms, which seemingly have arrived after debate on similar terms - but framed around abundance - stalled a year ago. To my mind, these both require some further discussion, because I don't (necessarily) see TDWG community coherence around either issue?<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Best, Rob<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Éamonn Ó Tuama [GBIF] <<a href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org" target="_blank">eotuama@gbif.org</a>> wrote:<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dear All,<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>GBIF is committed to exploring ways in which the IPT and Darwin Core Archive format can be extended for publishing sample-based data sets. In association with the EU BON project [1], a customised version of the IPT [2] has been deployed to test this using a special type of Darwin Core Archive in which the core is an “Event” with associated taxon occurrences in an “Occurrence” extension.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The Darwin Core vocabulary already provides a rich set of terms with many relevant for describing sample-based data. Synthesising several sources of input (GBIF organised workshop on sample data, May 2013 [3], discussions on the TDWG mailing list in late 2013; internal discussion among EU BON project partners), five new terms relating to sample data were identified as essential. The complete model including these new terms are fully described with examples in the online document “Publishing sample data using the GBIF IPT” [4].<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>As a first step towards ratification, we would like to register the new terms in the DwC Google Code tracker [5] if there are no major objections on this list. The five terms are:<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>1.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b>quantity</b>: the number or enumeration value of the quantityType (e.g., individuals, biomass, biovolume, BraunBlanquetScale) per samplingUnit or a percentage measure recorded for the sample.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>2.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b>quantityType</b>: : the entity being referred to by quantity, e.g., individuals, biomass, %species, scale type.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>3.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b>samplingGeometry</b>: an indication of what kind of space was sampled; select from point, line, area or volume.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>4.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b>samplingUnit</b>: the unit of measurement used for reporting the quantity in the sample, e.g., minute, hour, day, metre, metre^2, metre^3. It is combined with quantity and quantityType to provide the complete measurement, e.g., 9 individuals per day, 4 biomass-gm per metre^2.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>5.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b>eventSeriesID</b>: an identifier for a set of events that are associated in some way, e.g., a monitoring series; may be a global unique identifier or an identifier specific to the series.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Best regards,<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Éamonn<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>[1] <a href="http://eubon.eu/" target="_blank">http://eubon.eu</a> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>[2] <a href="http://eubon-ipt.gbif.org/" target="_blank">http://eubon-ipt.gbif.org</a> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>[3] <a href="http://www.standardsingenomics.org/index.php/sigen/article/view/sigs.4898640" target="_blank">http://www.standardsingenomics.org/index.php/sigen/article/view/sigs.4898640</a><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>[4] <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://links.gbif.org/sample_data_model" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://links.gbif.org/sample_data_model</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>[5] <a href="https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/list" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/list</a> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>____________________________________________________<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (<a href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org" target="_blank">eotuama@gbif.org</a>), </i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Senior Programme Officer for Interoperability, </i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, </i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK</i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Phone: <a href="tel:%2B45%203532%201494" target="_blank">+45 3532 1494</a>; 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