Dear all,

We’re happy to announce the opening of a minimum 30-day period for public review for the following 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
 
CategoryTermIssueActionNature
Record-levelbibliographicCitationhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/336changenon-normative
Record-levelreferenceshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/335changenon-normative
OccurrencerecordedByIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/102newnormative
OccurrenceindividualCounthttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/285changenon-normative
OccurrenceorganismQuantityhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/338changenon-normative
OccurrencelifeStagehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/321changenon-normative
OccurrenceoccurrenceStatushttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/342new vocabularynormative
OccurrenceoccurrenceStatushttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339changenormative
Occurrencepreparationshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/346changenon-normative
Occurrencedispositionhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/347changenon-normative
OccurrenceassociatedMediahttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/337changenon-normative
OccurrenceassociatedReferenceshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/334changenon-normative
OccurrenceassociatedSequeneshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/332changenormative
OccurrenceassociatedTaxahttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/331changenon-normative
OrganismassociatedOccurrenceshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/324changenon-normative
OrganismassociatedOrganismshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/330changenon-normative
MaterialSampleverbatimLabelhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32newnormative
EventsamplingProtocolhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/322changenormative
Eventbiomehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/38newnormative
Locationcountryhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/340changenon-normative
Locationlocalityhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/315changenon-normative
LocationverbatimLocalityhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/323changenon-normative
LocationverticalDatumhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/246newnormative
LocationcoordinateUncertaintyInMetershttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/309changenon-normative
LocationfootprintSRShttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/122changenormative
LocationgeoreferenceVerificationStatushttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/268changenormative
IdentificationidentificationQualifierhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/244changenon-normative
IdentificationverbatimIdentificationhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/181newnormative
IdentificationidentifiedByIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101newnormative
TaxonacceptedNameUsageIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105changenon-normative
TaxonparentNameUsageIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105changenon-normative
TaxonoriginalNameUsageIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105changenon-normative
Taxonsubfamilyhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/44newnormative
TaxongenericNamehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/29newnormative
Taxonsubgenushttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/320changenormative
TaxoninfragenericEpithethttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/30newnormative
TaxoninfraspecificEpithethttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/241changenon-normative
TaxoncultivarEpithethttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/41newnormative
ResourceRelationshiprelationshipOfResourceIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/283newnormative
ResourceRelationshipretationshipOfResourcehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/194changenon-normative
DwCIRImeasurementValuehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/175newnormative
MaterialCitationhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329newnormative