[tdwg-content] Treatise on Occurrence, tokens, and basisOfRecord

Richard Pyle deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Wed Oct 27 22:10:08 CEST 2010


Yes, that is exactly Congruent with what I had in mind.

Many thanks for the clarification!

Aloha,
Rich 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilmar Lapp [mailto:hlapp at nescent.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:24 AM
> To: Richard Pyle
> Cc: 'Blum, Stan'; tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Treatise on Occurrence, tokens, 
> and basisOfRecord
> 
> 
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Richard Pyle wrote:
> 
> > Some possibilities:
> >
> > An Occurrence is a combination of an Individual and an Event.
> > An Occurrence is a coupling of an Individual and an Event.
> > An Occurrence is a pairing of an Individual and an Event.
> 
> 
> Probably the latter, assuming that by pairing we do not mean 
> union, but forming a tuple. Thus, more formally, an 
> Occurrence would be a tuple of (Individual, Event), and has 
> properties for referring to the Individual and the Event.
> 
> Is that congruent with what you had in mind?
> 
> 	-hilmar
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