This Darwin Core Issue (http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=34) is being brought into this forum for further discussion in the hopes of a definitive recommendation.
==New Term Recommendation== Submitter:Ann Hitchcock
Justification: The evolution, from 2003 to the present, of the term "Institution Code" has resulted in a change from property ownership ("the institution to which the collection belongs") to administrative or management responsibility ("the institution administering the collection or data set"). We need to be able to separately identify the owning institution when that institution differs from the managing institution. Such a situation occurs when the owning party lends the collection to a repository for long-term management. The catalog numbers that both institutions may assign to the same specimen are addressed by the Catalog Number and "Other Catalog Numbers," but property ownership is not addressed.
Definition: The name (or acronym) in use by the owner of the collection or data set if different from the InstituionCode.
Comment:Examples: "NPS", "INBio". For discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Occurrence
Refines:InstitutionCode
Has Domain:http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Occurrence
Has Range:
Replaces:
ABCD 2.06:DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/SourceInstitutionID
Comment 1 by gtuco.btuco, Today (3 hours ago) Interesting. Do you think that dc:rights (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#dcterms:rights) and dc:rightsHolder (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#dcterms:rightsHolder) might fulfill the needs you are recommending? Status: Accepted Labels: Priority-Medium Milestone-Release1.0 Delete comment Comment 2 by ann_hitc...@nps.gov, Today (14 minutes ago) "Rights" and "Rights Holder" do address part of the issue, especially if a second example on "Rights" could be given that refers to physical property in addition to intellectual property. For example "Specimens are U.S. Government Property." Although these definitions are helpful, they still do not address the issue that the occurrence of the specimens or data set may be recorded in both the collection of the institution with custody and the collection of the institution with ownership.
Perhaps the term "administering" in the definition for Institution Code should be replaced with "with custody of" and the proposed definition for Institution Code should be bifurcated as follows:
InstitutionOwnership Code: The name (or acronym) in use by the institution that owns the collection or data set in which the Occurrence is recorded.
InstitutionCustody Code: The name (or acronym) in use by the institution with custody of the collection or data set in which the Occurrence is recorded, if different from the InstitutionOwnership Code.
Comment 3 by gtuco.btuco, Today (moments ago) Since this has moved into the realm of discussion and away from a definitive recommendation, I need to move it to the tdwg-content list for open discussion. If you have not yet joined that list, please do so to continue the conversation there in an open forum.