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

Category	Term	Issue	Action	Nature
Record-level	institutionID	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/406	change	non-normative
Record-level	collectionID	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/406	change	non-normative
Record-level	basisOfRecord	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/416	change	non-normative
Occurrence	organismQuantity	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/423	change	non-normative
Occurrence	organismQuantityType	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/424	change	non-normative
Occurrence	caste	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/412	new	normative
Occurrence	vitality*	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/363	new	normative
MaterialSample	verbatimLabel	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32	new	normative
Event	eventType	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/408	new	normative
Event	eventTime	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/407	change	non-normative
Location	continent	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/393	change	non-normative
Location	countryCode	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/394	change	non-normative
Location	stateProvince	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/395	change	non-normative
Location	stateProvince	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/401	change	non-normative
Location	municipality	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/397	change	non-normative
Location	county	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/396	change	non-normative
Location	coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/422	change	non-normative
Location	pointRadiusSpatialFit	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/419	change	non-normative
Location	footprintSpatialFit	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/420	change	non-normative
Identification	verbatimIdentification	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/392	change	non-normative
Taxon	namePublishedInID	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/405	change	non-normative
Taxon	scientificName	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/388	change	non-normative
Taxon	scientificName	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/391	change	non-normative
Taxon	namePublishedIn	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/405	change	non-normative
Taxon	superfamily	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/65	new	normative
Taxon	tribe	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/45	new	normative
Taxon	subtribe	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/46	new	normative
Taxon	infraspecificEpithet	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/387	change	non-normative
Taxon	taxonRank	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/390	change	non-normative
MeasurementOrFact	parentMeasurementID	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/362	new	normative
MeasurementOrFact	measurementUnit	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/409	change	non-normative
ResourceRelationship	relationshipOfResource	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/400	change	non-normative
dwciri:	dwciri equivalents	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/379	change	non-normative
MaterialCitation		https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/372	change	normative
DwC Archive	meta.xml filename	https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/144	change	non-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.