Tags to describe descriptions, keywords and frequency?
Dear list,
I am new to the Darwin Core World, so I apologize in advance if I am missing any basics.
I am working on a project that aims to describe plants according to Haller. We are using DwC to encode information with XML; however, I am missing the following elements:
-
an element to store small descriptions of plants; -
an element to store the place where plants may be found — by that I am not meaning the actual location where the plant was identified but its habitat in general terms. -
an element to store the frequency of the plant, in other words, if it is common or not.
I am currently using my own terms to store this information:
hllr:addition hllr:descriptionfoliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis, acute serratis, peiolis florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:description> hllr:keywordWegränder</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordGebüsch</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordfelsig</hllr:keyword> hllr:frequencyverbreitet</hllr:frequency> </hllr:addition>
I am wondering whether I could store that information in DwC tags instead — or should I be using Dublin Core tags to describe this kind of information?
Many thanks.
Best,
Hi Antonio,
Cool that you're trying to express this in Darwin Core!
1. There is no description element in DwC, but GBIF has developed a description extension that may be of use. The description is free text, but you can indicate its type: http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml. Since this is an extension, you can have multiple descriptions relating back to a single species. For more info on how to express these type of information, this document is probably a good start: http://www.gbif.org/resource/80725
2. DwC has a habitat element: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#habitat. It does not suggest any controlled vocabularies
3. I'm not aware of an abundance term
Cheers,
Peter
On 9 January 2017 at 17:46, Antonio Rojas Castro rojas.castro.antonio@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list,
I am new to the Darwin Core World, so I apologize in advance if I am missing any basics.
I am working on a project that aims to describe plants according to Haller. We are using DwC to encode information with XML; however, I am missing the following elements:
an element to store small descriptions of plants;
an element to store the place where plants may be found — by that I am not meaning the actual location where the plant was identified but its habitat in general terms.
an element to store the frequency of the plant, in other words, if it is common or not.
I am currently using my own terms to store this information:
hllr:addition hllr:descriptionfoliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis, acute serratis, peiolis florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:description> hllr:keywordWegränder</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordGebüsch</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordfelsig</hllr:keyword> hllr:frequencyverbreitet</hllr:frequency> </hllr:addition>
I am wondering whether I could store that information in DwC tags instead — or should I be using Dublin Core tags to describe this kind of information?
Many thanks.
Best,
-- Dr. Antonio Rojas Castro Research assistant, Cologne Center for eHumanities Communication coordinator, EADH http://www.antoniorojascastro.com
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Hi Antonio,
Just realized that PlinianCore might also be of help: https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore/wiki It's a standard for species information, that I don't know much about, but there are probably other people on this list that do.
Cheers,
Peter
On 23 January 2017 at 11:53, Peter Desmet peter.desmet.work@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Antonio,
Cool that you're trying to express this in Darwin Core!
- There is no description element in DwC, but GBIF has developed a
description extension that may be of use. The description is free text, but you can indicate its type: http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml. Since this is an extension, you can have multiple descriptions relating back to a single species. For more info on how to express these type of information, this document is probably a good start: http://www.gbif.org/resource/80725
- DwC has a habitat element:
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#habitat. It does not suggest any controlled vocabularies
- I'm not aware of an abundance term
Cheers,
Peter
On 9 January 2017 at 17:46, Antonio Rojas Castro rojas.castro.antonio@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list,
I am new to the Darwin Core World, so I apologize in advance if I am missing any basics.
I am working on a project that aims to describe plants according to Haller. We are using DwC to encode information with XML; however, I am missing the following elements:
an element to store small descriptions of plants;
an element to store the place where plants may be found — by that I am not meaning the actual location where the plant was identified but its habitat in general terms.
an element to store the frequency of the plant, in other words, if it is common or not.
I am currently using my own terms to store this information:
hllr:addition hllr:descriptionfoliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis, acute serratis, peiolis florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:description> hllr:keywordWegränder</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordGebüsch</hllr:keyword> hllr:keywordfelsig</hllr:keyword> hllr:frequencyverbreitet</hllr:frequency> </hllr:addition>
I am wondering whether I could store that information in DwC tags instead — or should I be using Dublin Core tags to describe this kind of information?
Many thanks.
Best,
-- Dr. Antonio Rojas Castro Research assistant, Cologne Center for eHumanities Communication coordinator, EADH http://www.antoniorojascastro.com
tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
For abundance you could use organismQuantity in conjunction with organismQuantityType. Both are loosely defined, so just define the terms of your abundance scale in organismQuantityType and use the relevant term in organismQuantity. If you can restrict your terms to a more standard terminology such as DAFOR or BraunBlanquet, so much the better. Regards Quentin
Dr. Quentin Groom (Botany and Information Technology)
Botanic Garden Meise Domein van Bouchout B-1860 Meise Belgium
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On 23 January 2017 at 15:31, Peter Desmet peter.desmet.work@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Antonio,
Just realized that PlinianCore might also be of help: https://github.com/tdwg/PlinianCore/wiki It's a standard for species information, that I don't know much about, but there are probably other people on this list that do.
Cheers,
Peter
On 23 January 2017 at 11:53, Peter Desmet peter.desmet.work@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Antonio,
Cool that you're trying to express this in Darwin Core!
- There is no description element in DwC, but GBIF has developed a
description extension that may be of use. The description is free text, but you can indicate its type: http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml. Since this is an extension, you can have multiple descriptions relating back to a single species. For more info on how to express these type of information, this document is probably a good start: http://www.gbif.org/resource/80725
- DwC has a habitat element:
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#habitat. It does not suggest any controlled vocabularies
- I'm not aware of an abundance term
Cheers,
Peter
On 9 January 2017 at 17:46, Antonio Rojas Castro rojas.castro.antonio@gmail.com wrote:
Dear list,
I am new to the Darwin Core World, so I apologize in advance if I am
missing
any basics.
I am working on a project that aims to describe plants according to
Haller.
We are using DwC to encode information with XML; however, I am missing
the
following elements:
an element to store small descriptions of plants;
an element to store the place where plants may be found — by that I am
not
meaning the actual location where the plant was identified but its
habitat
in general terms.
an element to store the frequency of the plant, in other words, if it is common or not.
I am currently using my own terms to store this information:
hllr:addition hllr:descriptionfoliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis, acute serratis, peiolis florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:
description>
<hllr:keyword>Wegränder</hllr:keyword> <hllr:keyword>Gebüsch</hllr:keyword> <hllr:keyword>felsig</hllr:keyword> <hllr:frequency>verbreitet</hllr:frequency></hllr:addition>
I am wondering whether I could store that information in DwC tags
instead —
or should I be using Dublin Core tags to describe this kind of
information?
Many thanks.
Best,
-- Dr. Antonio Rojas Castro Research assistant, Cologne Center for eHumanities Communication coordinator, EADH http://www.antoniorojascastro.com
tdwg-content mailing list tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
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Dear all,
Thank you very much for your replies!
@Quetin, thanks for suggesting that organismQuantity tag - we are probably using it.
@Peter, yes, we will go with that habitat tag to describe the environment finally. I thank you a lot for the links and all the resources you mentioned.
Best,
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Antonio Rojas Castro -
Peter Desmet -
Quentin Groom