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

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:23 PM, joel sachs wrote:

> I was wondering the same thing. Event=(Location, Time) strikes me as
> weird, for a couple of reasons:
>
> i. Intuitively, an event is something that happens at a region of
> space/time, not the region itself.

Yeah, some act took place at that place and time. In the context of  
Occurrence, probably an act of sampling or collecting, and so one  
should expect metadata documenting that act (who, how, etc)

	-hilmar
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