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:descriptionfoliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis, acute serratis, peiolis florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:description> hllr:keywordWegränder</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordGebüsch</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordfelsig</hllr:keyword> hllr:frequencyverbreitet</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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