Dear Daniela:

The Biological Collections Ontology (BCO) https://github.com/tucotuco/bco maps Darwin Core terms to an ontology. One of our goals for doing this is so that we can work out the semantics of new terms requests before they are submitted to Darwin Core, thereby, we hope, avoiding circular and often hard to follow discussions on the mailing list. The process we suggest is to explore the definitions and semantics of terms in BCO, and then, once there is some agreement, request them to DwC if appropriate. In many case, new terms may not be needed for Darwin Core, but instead we can provide a controlled vocabulary to serve as the values for existing Darwin Core properties.

We have a recent request for origin and establishment terms ( https://github.com/tucotuco/bco/issues/30), which we have begun working on. I think that your request for domestication status fits very nicely with this, and we could include terms as part of the same discussion. Would you be willing to add your comments and suggested definitions to the issue?

Ramona ------------------------------------------------------ Ramona L. Walls, Ph.D. Scientific Analyst, The iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona Research Associate, Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona Laboratory Research Associate, New York Botanical Garden

Today's Topics:

1. Re: FW: domesticated species identifier in GBIF? (Mergen Patricia)

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 19:16:36 +0200 From: Mergen Patricia mergen.patricia@gmail.com Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] FW: domesticated species identifier in GBIF? To: Daniela Soleri soleri@geog.ucsb.edu, tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Message-ID: < CAKpZQj35tnhHX6joXVMXcEqq2JNjiuGcGPqQp9x_N0QgX9V5Yw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Dear Daniela

I forward your question to the TDWG-content list where experts can further answer your questions. you can also become member of the list here : http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo

all the best

Patricia

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Daniela Soleri soleri@geog.ucsb.edu wrote:

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Dear Patricia Mergen,

I have been referred to the TDWG by the GBIF secretariat. I am very interested in pursuing the inclusion of the categories "domesticate" and "domesticate wild relative" as identifiers on the GBIF platform, which I believe will have wide utility for a diversity of users. Can you please tell me who I should contact, and/or the process of proposing and justifying such inclusions?

Thank you for your assistance. Best wishes,

Daniela Soleri

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soleri@geog.ucsb.edu CC:

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Dmitry Schigel [GBIF] dschigel@gbif.org dschigel@gbif.org, 'GBIF Helpdesk' helpdesk@gbif.org helpdesk@gbif.org, portal@gbif.org

Dear Daniela,

We do not have an identifier for domesticated species and there is no

such property on the horizon either. GBIF is employing the Darwin Core terms (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm ) and you would need to engage with TDWG if you want to submit recommendations. You can sign up for the mailing list here:http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content

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If you have a list of the species of interest, I can generate a custom

download for you.

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Sincerely,

Jan K. Legind GBIF Secretariat

-----Original Message----- From: Daniela Soleri [mailto:soleri@geog.ucsb.edu <soleri@geog.ucsb.edu ] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:20 PM To: info@gbif.org Subject: domesticated species identifier in GBIF?

Is there a domesticated species identifier for GBIF entries so that it

is possible to search exclusively for or within domesticated species only? Please let me know if any such identifier exists or is being planned.

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Thank you,

-- Daniela Soleri, PhD Associate Research Scientist Geography Department UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060