Dear Daniela,

I understand the value and interest of what you are seeking to achieve. However, it is a little more complicated.

The Darwin Core data that you see in GBIF is from data shared by many different publishers from work on their collections or field research. Few of these data sets standardly mark all records e.g. as "alien" or "naturalised" or "domesticated" - because it is not necessarily a significant factor in the context of their research.

For this reason, marking data which relates to "domesticated" organisms or "wild relatives" can only easily be handled as a secondary interpretation of the data. This would be possible if we had an agreed list of species which should be tagged this way. It may however be that the tags should only apply in certain localities, since the species may exist in the wild in other areas. This introduces more complexity.

For this reason, right now, it makes most sense for researchers to identify the list of species of interest to them and the areas of interest and filter data accordingly. If you are able to identify a suitable and generally useful list of species that could be of value to others, we can explore ways to make it accessible and to use it to tag the species in question.

Sorry if this is not a quick answer, but I hope it helps.

Best wishes,

Donald Hobern GBIF Executive Secretary

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