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I support this proposal.<br>
Steve<br>
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John Wieczorek wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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<div>During the process of reviewing the recent set of changes to the
Darwin Core standard in early November 2014, it was proposed to make
the definitions and comments for terms more consistent in their
treatment of content recommendations. The specific proposal is logged
in the Darwin Core issue tracker as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/26">https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/26</a>. </div>
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<div>The gist of the proposal is that recommendations on how to
populate a term are often in the definition whereas we would like them
to be consistently in the comments section. The list of affected terms
is given below for reference. </div>
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<div>This message is to elicit responses from any who might have a
reason to recommend against these changes, which are not semantic in
nature. We will leave this proposal open for commentary until 19
February 2015 unless further discussion arises resulting in amendments.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>John</div>
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following terms have recommendations in the definitions, which we would
like to move to comments:</span><br>
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occurrenceID<br>
sex<br>
lifeStage<br>
reproductiveCondition<br>
behavior<br>
establishmentMeans<br>
occurrenceStatus<br>
organismID<br>
organismScope<br>
materialSampleID<br>
eventID<br>
eventDate<br>
eventTime<br>
locationID<br>
higherGeographyID<br>
continent<br>
waterBody<br>
islandGroup<br>
island<br>
country<br>
countryCode<br>
municipality<br>
locality<br>
minimumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters<br>
maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters<br>
locationAccordingTo<br>
decimalLatitude<br>
decimalLongitude<br>
geodeticDatum<br>
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters<br>
pointRadiusSpatialFit<br>
verbatimCoordinates<br>
verbatimLatitude<br>
verbatimLongitude<br>
verbatimCoordinateSystem<br>
verbatimSRS<br>
footprintWKT<br>
footprintSRS<br>
footprintSpatialFit<br>
georeferencedDate<br>
georeferenceVerificationStatus<br>
geologicalContextID<br>
identificationID<br>
dateIdentified<br>
identificationVerificationStatus<br>
taxonID<br>
scientificName<br>
subgenus<br>
taxonRank<br>
nomenclaturalCode<br>
taxonomicStatus<br>
measurementID<br>
measurementType<br>
measurementUnit<br>
measurementDeterminedDate<br>
relationshipOfResource<br>
relationshipEstablishedDate</p>
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the following terms already have the recommendations in the comments:</p>
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collectionID<br>
basisOfRecord<br>
dynamicProperties<br>
recordedBy<br>
preparations<br>
disposition<br>
associatedMedia<br>
associatedReferences<br>
associatedSequences<br>
associatedTaxa<br>
otherCatalogNumbers<br>
associatedOccurrences<br>
associatedOrganisms<br>
previousIdentifications<br>
higherGeography<br>
georeferencedBy<br>
georeferenceSources<br>
typeStatus<br>
identifiedBy<br>
identificationReferences<br>
higherClassification<br>
measurementDeterminedBy</p>
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