The example for abundanceAsPercent was my mistake. The "%" sign should not be in there. It should just be a number. Apologies for the confusion.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Birgitta König-Ries Birgitta.Koenig-Ries@uni-jena.de wrote:
Dear all,
two questions/comments from someone who has relatively recently started to look into DarwinCore.
- I find it a bit confusing, that, apparently "abundance" is allowed to
contain percentage values, when there is a separate "abundanceAsPercent" term defined. Why do you need both, then? 2. If the term "abundanceAsPercent" is used, why is it necessary/desirable to include "%" as part of the value? That information is given already in the meta data (i.e. term definition), why replicate it on the data level?
Yours,
Birgitta
Am 25.09.2013 14:35, schrieb John Wieczorek:
Dear all,
GBIF has just published "Meeting Report: GBIF hackathon-workshop on Darwin Core and sample data (22-24 May 2013)" at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=5424. Now that this document is available for public reference, I would like to formally open the minimum 30-day comment period on two related new terms proposed during the workshop and defined in the referenced document.
The formal proposal would add the following new terms:
Term Name: abundance Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/abundance Namespace: http:/rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ Label: Abundance Definition: The number of individuals of a taxon found in a sample. This is typically expressed as number per unit of area or volume. In the case of vegetation and colonial/encrusting species, percent cover can be used. Comment: Examples: "4 per square meter", "0.32 per cubic meter", "24%". For discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence (there will be no further documentation here until the term is ratified) Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property Refines: Status: proposed Date Issued: 2012-03-01 Date Modified: 2013-09-25 Has Domain: Has Range: Refines: Version: abundance-2013-09-25 Replaces: IsReplaceBy: Class: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence ABCD 2.0.6: not in ABCD (someone please confirm or deny this)
Term Name: abundanceAsPercent Identifier: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/abundanceAsPercent Namespace: http:/rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ Label: Abundance as Percent Definition: 100 times the number of individuals of a taxon found in a sample divided by the total number of individuals of all taxa in the sample. Comment: Examples: "2.4%". For discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence (there will be no further documentation here until the term is ratified) Type of Term: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property Refines: Status: proposed Date Issued: 2012-08-01 Date Modified: 2013-09-25 Has Domain: Has Range: Refines: Version: abundanceAsPercent-2013-09-25 Replaces: IsReplaceBy: Class: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence ABCD 2.0.6: not in ABCD (someone please confirm or deny this)
The related issues in the Darwin Core issue tracker are https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=142 and https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=187
If there are any objections to the changes proposed for these new terms, or comments about their definitions, please respond to this message. If there are no objections or if consensus can be reached on any amendments put forward, the proposal will go before the Executive Committee for authorization to put these additions into effect after the public commentary period.
Cheers,
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