[tdwg-content] A plea around basisOfRecord (Was: Proposed new Darwin Core terms - abundance, abundanceAsPercent)

[Donald Hobern [GBIF]]

Thanks, Rich.

 

Very pleased to see this.  With this encouragement, I'll say just a little
bit more about why I think this is a critical need.

 

I see the model I describe as the perfect real-world realisation of most of
the key components in the GBIO Framework
(http://www.biodiversityinformatics.org/), as follows:

 

1.       Everyone zips up whatever data they have from each resource
(databases, field instruments, sequencers, data extracted from literature,
checklists, whatever) into a DwC Archive using whatever DwC elements they
can for data elements and describing other elements not currently recognised
in DwC (the GBIO DATA layer)

2.       These archives should be placed in repositories that offer basic
services (DOIs, annotation services, etc.) (the GBIO CULTURE layer)

3.       Harvesters assess the contents of each archive and determine what
views can be supported from the supplied elements (occurrence records for
GBIF, name usage records, species interactions, etc.) and catalogue these
views in relevant discovery indexes (GBIF, Catalogue of Life, TraitBank,
etc.) (the GBIO EVIDENCE layer)

4.       Users can at any time annotate elements in the archives to provide
mappings for (potentially more recently defined) DwC or other properties,
opening up new options for reuse

 

Donald

 

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Donald Hobern - GBIF Director - dhobern at gbif.org 

Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/ 

GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Tel: +45 3532 1471  Mob: +45 2875 1471  Fax: +45 2875 1480

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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Pyle [mailto:deepreef at bishopmuseum.org] 
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:49 PM
To: 'Donald Hobern [GBIF]'; 'TDWG Content Mailing List'
Cc: 'Chuck Miller'
Subject: RE: [tdwg-content] A plea around basisOfRecord (Was: Proposed new
Darwin Core terms - abundance, abundanceAsPercent)

 

Hi Donald,

 

MANY thanks for this!  And you are certainly not alone in your concerns
about these issues.  In fact, we have planned a Symposium for “Documenting
DarwinCore”

(
<https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/schedConf/trackPolicies
>
https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/schedConf/trackPolicies

#track11), and one of the four sessions (Session 3, to be precise) of the
symposium focuses exactly on this issue of basisOfRecord/dcterms:type/etc.

 

Another session (Session 2) will focus on proposed and
perhaps-to-be-proposed new classes (Individual, MaterialSample, Evidence),
and will start out with a series graphs illustrating the existing high-level
ontology and possible alternative high-level ontologies, as you indicate in
your items 3 & 4.

 

Aloha,

Rich

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