Celebrating Darwin Day, the members of the Darwin Core Maintenance Group are happy to announce the opening of a minimum 30-day period for public review for the set of proposed changes to Darwin Core.
Please refer to the documentation we have provided on the review process and the maintenance of the Darwin Core standard in general at https://github.com/tdwg /dwc/wiki/Darwin-Core-Maintenance-Frequently-Asked-Questions.
For your reference and convenience we are providing a table with links to the proposed changes, organized in keeping with the order in the Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide (https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/). The relevant issues are also listed in the following milestone: https://github.com/tdwg /dwc/milestone/14.
Your comments are welcome and important for the evolution of the Darwin Core standard.
Thank you
The Darwin Core Maintenance Team
Category Term Issue Action Nature Record-level institutionID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/406 https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/336 change non-normative Record-level collectionID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/406 change non-normative Record-level basisOfRecord https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/416 change non-normative Occurrence organismQuantity https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/423 change non-normative Occurrence organismQuantityType https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/424 change non-normative Occurrence caste https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/412 new normative Occurrence vitality* https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/363 new normative MaterialSample verbatimLabel https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32 new normative Event eventType https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/408 new normative Event eventTime https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/407 change non-normative Location continent https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/393 change non-normative Location countryCode https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/394 change non-normative Location stateProvince https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/395 change non-normative Location stateProvince https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/401 change non-normative Location municipality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/397 change non-normative Location county https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/396 change non-normative Location coordinateUncertaintyInMeters https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/422 change non-normative Location pointRadiusSpatialFit https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/419 change non-normative Location footprintSpatialFit https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/420 change non-normative Identification verbatimIdentification https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/392 change non-normative Taxon namePublishedInID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/405 change non-normative Taxon scientificName https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/388 change non-normative Taxon scientificName https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/391 change non-normative Taxon namePublishedIn https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/405 change non-normative Taxon superfamily https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/65 new normative Taxon tribe https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/45 new normative Taxon subtribe https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/46 new normative Taxon infraspecificEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/387 change non-normative Taxon taxonRank https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/390 change non-normative MeasurementOrFact parentMeasurementID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/362 new normative MeasurementOrFact measurementUnit https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/409 change non-normative ResourceRelationship relationshipOfResource https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/400 change non-normative dwciri: dwciri equivalents https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/379 change non-normative MaterialCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/372 change normative DwC Archive meta.xml filename https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/144 change non-normative * Note that the vitality term proposal also comes with a set of five controlled vocabulary terms (see https://github.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/blob/vitality/process/page_build_scripts...), which are also part of the public review.