Darwin Core Issues 96: http://goo.gl/gOkAs
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The proposal seeks to add the term source from the Dublin Core vocabulary to the recommended record-level terms for the Darwin Core.
Open Issues: Determine if there is demand for this term from more than one "independent" party. I consider myself an independent party on behalf of VertNet, for which this term woud be a more general solution than the existing Darwin Core term dwc:occurrenceDetails, as it could apply to records of any Class rather than just for Occurrence.
Determine if there is any objection to include this term as recommended for use in the Darwin Core.
Determine if there is any objection to deprecating dwc:occurrenceDetails in favor of dcterms:source.
Here are the descriptions for the two terms for easy comparison:
dwc:occurrenceDetails - definition: "A reference (publication, URI) to the most detailed information available about the Occurrence." comment: "Example: "http://mvzarctos.berkeley.edu/guid/MVZ:Mamm:165861". For discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence"
dcterms:source - definition: "A related resource from which the described resource is derived." comment: "The described resource may be derived from the related resource in whole or in part. Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a string conforming to a formal identification system."