+1 for keeping Individual as for Gregors reasoning.
In also conservative on "normalising" dwc too much and replace all id terms used as foreign keys with the relations class. Of course we can model things that way (though im sure we'll start seeing more qualifiers on that class then), but dwc is largely successful because of its rather flat and simple nature, so we should be careful to preserve at least the important and often used id terms.
Markus
On 09.07.2011, at 17:51, Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Gregor
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com wrote:
- I believe that the term "BiologicalEntity" is the best term for this
class and its ID attribute.
I disagree on this. Biological entities to me seems a clear superterm, encompassing ecosystems, taxa, individuals, enzymes, and probably more.
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