I think both dwc:recordedBy for the Occurrence and dcterms:created for some tokens should be provided. Depending on the situation, they might be different entities (I think John Wieczorek pointed this out in an earlier thread). dwc:recordedBy is specifically supposed to be a person whereas I think dcterms:creator could be a person or an institution. For example, if the token is a PreservedSpecimen, one might want to consider the specimen to have been created by the museum or herbarium rather than the collector. Also, there could be Occurrences without tokens (like human observations, unless you go with Rich's "memory" as a token), and images that are serving as tokens might be part of a database that includes images that are NOT serving as tokens for Occurrences (and in that case consumers who aren't interested in biodiversity information would like to know the dcterms:creator without having to look at the Occurrence record).

Steve

Cam Webb wrote:

Q2-4.  If the "token" is separated from the Occurrence, then 
dwc:recordedBy is a property of the Occurrence and dcterms:created and 
dcterms:creator are properties of the token (if it's a create-able 
thing).


Is there any benefit to specifying both OccurrenceX dwc:recordedBy PersonY 
and TokenX dcterms:creator PersonY?  If not, which is the more `natural' 
home for the information?  I think it would be TokenX dcterms:creator 
PersonY.

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