Hi Antonio,

Just realized that PlinianCore might also be of help:
https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore/wiki It's a standard for species
information, that I don't know much about, but there are probably
other people on this list that do.

Cheers,

Peter

On 23 January 2017 at 11:53, Peter Desmet <peter.desmet.work@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
>
> Cool that you're trying to express this in Darwin Core!
>
> 1. There is no description element in DwC, but GBIF has developed a
> description extension that may be of use. The description is free
> text, but you can indicate its type:
> http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml. Since this is
> an extension, you can have multiple descriptions relating back to a
> single species. For more info on how to express these type of
> information, this document is probably a good start:
> http://www.gbif.org/resource/80725
>
> 2. DwC has a habitat element:
> http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#habitat. It does not suggest
> any controlled vocabularies
>
> 3. I'm not aware of an abundance term
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
> On 9 January 2017 at 17:46, Antonio Rojas Castro
> <rojas.castro.antonio@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am new to the Darwin Core World, so I apologize in advance if I am missing
>> any basics.
>>
>> I am working on a project that aims to describe plants according to Haller.
>> We are using DwC to encode information with XML; however, I am missing the
>> following elements:
>>
>> an element to store small descriptions of plants;
>>
>> an element to store the place where plants may be found — by that I am not
>> meaning the actual location where the plant was identified but its habitat
>> in general terms.
>>
>> an element to store the frequency of the plant, in other words, if it is
>> common or not.
>>
>> I am currently using my own terms to store this information:
>>
>> <hllr:addition>
>>                <hllr:description>foliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis,
>> acute serratis, peiolis
>>                   florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:description>
>>                <hllr:keyword>Wegränder</hllr:keyword>
>>                <hllr:keyword>Gebüsch</hllr:keyword>
>>                <hllr:keyword>felsig</hllr:keyword>
>>                <hllr:frequency>verbreitet</hllr:frequency>
>>   </hllr:addition>
>>
>> I am wondering whether I could store that information in DwC tags instead —
>> or should I be using Dublin Core tags to describe this kind of information?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Antonio Rojas Castro
>> Research assistant, Cologne Center for eHumanities
>> Communication coordinator, EADH
>> <http://www.antoniorojascastro.com>
>>
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