Dear all,

We are now almost 20 days into the minimum 30-day review period for the 40 changes to Darwin Core proposed on 2021-05-01 (see https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/milestone/14). If this public review is new to you, please refer to https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/wiki/Darwin-Core-Maintenance-Frequently-Asked-Qu... .

Of the 40 proposals, one (biome - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/38) will certainly be deferred to a Task Group for further development. There is currently consensus on 34 of the proposals, and each of these will be recommended for ratification if no indication of dissent arises through the rest of the review period. The status of two proposals (identificationQualifier - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/244, and the nameUsageIDs - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105) is unclear until verification that consensus has been reached. The remaining four proposals (recordedByID - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/102, occurrenceStatus - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 and its controlled vocabulary - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/342, and verbatimLabel - https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32) are controversial. If no evidence of consensus can be reached by the 30-day minimum review period, the controversial proposals will be deferred for later consideration. If it appears that consensus can be reached on any of the controversial proposals, the review period will be extended for an additional 30 days from the time apparent consensus is established (everyone participating in the discussion expresses their satisfaction with the proposed solution). During any extension, all proposals will remain open for commentary. The current status of proposals to date is shown in the table below.

Thank you on behalf of the Darwin Core Maintenance Group

Term Issue Action Nature Status bibliographicCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/336 change non-normative consensus references https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/335 change non-normative consensus recordedByID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/102 new normative controversial individualCount https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/285 change non-normative consensus organismQuantity https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/338 change non-normative consensus lifeStage https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/321 change non-normative consensus occurrenceStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/342 new vocabulary normative controversial occurrenceStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 change normative controversial preparations https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/346 https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 change non-normative consensus disposition https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/347 https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/339 change non-normative consensus associatedMedia https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/337 change non-normative consensus associatedReferences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/334 change non-normative consensus associatedSequences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/332 change normative consensus associatedTaxa https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/331 change non-normative consensus associatedOccurrences https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/324 change non-normative consensus associatedOrganisms https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/330 change non-normative consensus verbatimLabel https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/32 new normative controversial samplingProtocol https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/322 change normative consensus biome https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/38 new normative task group country https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/340 change non-normative consensus locality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/315 change non-normative consensus verbatimLocality https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/323 https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329 change non-normative consensus verticalDatum https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/246 new normative consensus coordinateUncertaintyInMeters https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/309 change non-normative consensus footprintSRS https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/122 change normative consensus georeferenceVerificationStatus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/268 change normative consensus identificationQualifier https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/244 https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101 change non-normative unclear verbatimIdentification https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/181 https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101 new normative consensus identifiedByID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/101 new normative consensus acceptedNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative unclear parentNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative unclear originalNameUsageID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/105 change non-normative unclear subfamily https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/44 new normative consensus genericName https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/29 new normative consensus subgenus https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/320 change normative consensus infragenericEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/30 new normative consensus infraspecificEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/241 change non-normative consensus cultivarEpithet https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/41 new normative consensus relationshipOfResourceID https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/283 new normative consensus retationshipOfResource https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/194 change non-normative consensus measurementValue https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/175 new normative consensus MaterialCitation https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/329 new normative consensus