Greetings

We would need a term to store the name of the person who has digitised a sample. The current Darwin Core does not seem to include such term. Dublin Core's "creator" is what we'd use.

I wonder why not all of the Dublin Core's 15 basic terms are included in Darwin Core terms web page, but just a subset of them, which subset seems to be somewhat random to me?

We could also use the DC term "contributor" or something for someone who has proof-read the digitisation result.

I understand that nothing breaks if we use dc:creator because the Dublin Core schema loads it along with other elements. But because of this omission some applications like GBIF IPT omit it from their mapping capabilities, which is a problem.

Your advise is sppreaciated, Hannu

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Hannu Saarenmaa, Project Manager
Digitisation Centre of the Finnish Museum of Natural History
Faculty of Science and Forestry
University of Eastern Finland
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