[tdwg-content] dwc:associatedOccurrences

[John Wieczorek]

The term relationshipOfResource has the recommendation to use a controlled
vocabulary. The vocabulary does not yet exist - it is an aspect that
requires community development. The ResourceRelationship class has the added
benefits over the associatedOccurrences term that there is no dependence on
the syntax of the content to discern the correct meaning.

>>>From http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#relationshipOfResource:

Definition: The relationship of the resource identified by relatedResourceID
to the subject (optionally identified by the resourceID). Recommended best
practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.

Comment: Examples: "duplicate of", "mother of", "endoparasite of", "host
to", "sibling of", "valid synonym of", "located within". For discussion see
http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/ResourceRelationship

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Mark Wilden <mark at mwilden.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:24 AM, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > Note that associatedOccurrences is one of the several terms that are
> meant
> > to allow lists of relationships between resources to be captured in a
> single
> > field. Others include associatedMedia, associatedReferences,
> > associatedSequnces, and associatedTaxa. The main purposes of these fields
> is
> > to provide a mechanism to share relationship information in a flat
> > application profile such as the Simple Darwin Core
> > (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/simple/index.htm). If an application
> profile
> > isn't constrained by being flat, then there is a much more robust way to
> > capture relationships, using the ResourceRelationship class and it's
> > constituent terms (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#relindex).
>
> However, the values of the description of the relationship
> (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#relationshipOfResource) are
> not controlled, so this still doesn't provide a "community-defined"
> vocabulary that Bob was asking about.
>
> ///ark
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> Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics
> California Academy of Sciences
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