I was examining the definition of dwc:organismScope (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/organismScope ) and noticed that its comment specifically says "To describe the kind of Organism using a URI object in RDF, use rdf:type ... instead." The Darwin Core RDF Guide includes dwc:organismScope in the category of terms having analogues in the dwciri: namespace (i.e. having an IRI-reference object). I believe that it should be removed from that list and placed in Table 3.8 [1] with an explanation that rdf:type should be used instead in accordance with the term comment. Steve Baskauf [1] https://code.google.com/p/tdwg-rdf/wiki/DwcRdfGuideProposalRevised#3.8_Darwi... -- Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences postal mail address: PMB 351634 Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. delivery address: 2125 Stevenson Center 1161 21st Ave., S. Nashville, TN 37235 office: 2128 Stevenson Center phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 322-4942 If you fax, please phone or email so that I will know to look for it. http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu http://vanderbilt.edu/trees