Sorry, I put the wrong milestone in the Darwin Core Public Commentary announcement. It should be https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/milestone/16.


On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 9:01 PM John Wieczorek <tuco@berkeley.edu> wrote:
Celebrating Darwin Day, the members of the Darwin Core Maintenance Group are happy to announce the opening of a minimum 30-day period for public review for the set of proposed changes to Darwin Core.

Please refer to the documentation we have provided on the review process and the maintenance of the Darwin Core standard in general at https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/wiki/Darwin-Core-Maintenance-Frequently-Asked-Questions.

For your reference and convenience we are providing a table with links to the proposed changes, organized in keeping with the order in the Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide (https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/). The relevant issues are also listed in the following milestone: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/milestone/14.

Your comments are welcome and important for the evolution of the Darwin Core standard.

Thank you

The Darwin Core Maintenance Team

CategoryTermIssueActionNature
Record-levelinstitutionIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/406changenon-normative
Record-levelcollectionIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/406changenon-normative
Record-levelbasisOfRecordhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/416changenon-normative
OccurrenceorganismQuantityhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/423changenon-normative
OccurrenceorganismQuantityTypehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/424changenon-normative
Occurrencecastehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/412newnormative
Occurrencevitality*https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/363newnormative
MaterialSampleverbatimLabelhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32newnormative
EventeventTypehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/408newnormative
EventeventTimehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/407changenon-normative
Locationcontinenthttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/393changenon-normative
LocationcountryCodehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/394changenon-normative
LocationstateProvincehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/395changenon-normative
LocationstateProvincehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/401changenon-normative
Locationmunicipalityhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/397changenon-normative
Locationcountyhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/396changenon-normative
LocationcoordinateUncertaintyInMetershttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/422changenon-normative
LocationpointRadiusSpatialFithttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/419changenon-normative
LocationfootprintSpatialFithttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/420changenon-normative
IdentificationverbatimIdentificationhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/392changenon-normative
TaxonnamePublishedInIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/405changenon-normative
TaxonscientificNamehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/388changenon-normative
TaxonscientificNamehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/391changenon-normative
TaxonnamePublishedInhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/405changenon-normative
Taxonsuperfamilyhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/65newnormative
Taxontribehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/45newnormative
Taxonsubtribehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/46newnormative
TaxoninfraspecificEpithethttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/387changenon-normative
TaxontaxonRankhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/390changenon-normative
MeasurementOrFactparentMeasurementIDhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/362newnormative
MeasurementOrFactmeasurementUnithttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/409changenon-normative
ResourceRelationshiprelationshipOfResourcehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/400changenon-normative
dwciri:dwciri equivalentshttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/379changenon-normative
MaterialCitationhttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/372changenormative
DwC Archivemeta.xml filenamehttps://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/144changenon-normative

* Note that the vitality term proposal also comes with a set of five controlled vocabulary terms (see https://github.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/blob/vitality/process/page_build_scripts/vitality.md), which are also part of the public review.