Everyone,

The Documenting Darwin Core workshop being held next week at TDWG will be a series of four facilitated discussions that will examine current usage and documentation of some of the more contentious and/or misunderstood Darwin Core terms. Descriptions and goals for each session are posted at http://bit.ly/18U2V2b . Please feel free to comment on this agenda.

All are welcome to participate in any or all of the sessions. But please note that we will only have time for minimal introductory and background discussion. For those who need a refresher course, I've pasted links to issue summaries below.

To all who'll be attending, I wish safe travels and a wonderful and productive meeting - I wish I could be there.

Best, Joel. ---

The trouble with Occurrence, in a nutshell: http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2013-June/003035.html

The proposal to add the classes for Individuals and Evidence (currently labeled "Organism" and "CollectionObject", respectively): http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2011-September/002727.html

How rdf:type relates to dwc:basisOfRecord: http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-rdf/wiki/DwcRdfGuideProposal (section 2.3.1.4)

This month's thread on basisOfRecord: http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-content/2013-October/003150.html

And, for extra credit: http://code.google.com/p/tdwg-rdf/wiki/DarwinCoreClasses (particularly the section on Occurrence)