[tdwg-content] Darwin Core Proposal - term content recommendations to comments

[Steve Baskauf]

I support this proposal.
Steve

John Wieczorek wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> During the process of reviewing the recent set of changes to the 
> Darwin Core standard in early November 2014, it was proposed to make 
> the definitions and comments for terms more consistent in their 
> treatment of content recommendations. The specific proposal is logged 
> in the Darwin Core issue tracker 
> as https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/26. 
>
> The gist of the proposal is that recommendations on how to populate a 
> term are often in the definition whereas we would like them to be 
> consistently in the comments section. The list of affected terms is 
> given below for reference. 
>
> This message is to elicit responses from any who might have a reason 
> to recommend against these changes, which are not semantic in nature. 
> We will leave this proposal open for commentary until 19 February 2015 
> unless further discussion arises resulting in amendments.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
> The following terms have recommendations in the definitions, which we 
> would like to move to comments:
>
> datasetID
> occurrenceID
> sex
> lifeStage
> reproductiveCondition
> behavior
> establishmentMeans
> occurrenceStatus
> organismID
> organismScope
> materialSampleID
> eventID
> eventDate
> eventTime
> locationID
> higherGeographyID
> continent
> waterBody
> islandGroup
> island
> country
> countryCode
> municipality
> locality
> minimumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters
> maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters
> locationAccordingTo
> decimalLatitude
> decimalLongitude
> geodeticDatum
> coordinateUncertaintyInMeters
> pointRadiusSpatialFit
> verbatimCoordinates
> verbatimLatitude
> verbatimLongitude
> verbatimCoordinateSystem
> verbatimSRS
> footprintWKT
> footprintSRS
> footprintSpatialFit
> georeferencedDate
> georeferenceVerificationStatus
> geologicalContextID
> identificationID
> dateIdentified
> identificationVerificationStatus
> taxonID
> scientificName
> subgenus
> taxonRank
> nomenclaturalCode
> taxonomicStatus
> measurementID
> measurementType
> measurementUnit
> measurementDeterminedDate
> relationshipOfResource
> relationshipEstablishedDate
>
> while the following terms already have the recommendations in the 
> comments:
>
> institutionID
> collectionID
> basisOfRecord
> dynamicProperties
> recordedBy
> preparations
> disposition
> associatedMedia
> associatedReferences
> associatedSequences
> associatedTaxa
> otherCatalogNumbers
> associatedOccurrences
> associatedOrganisms
> previousIdentifications
> higherGeography
> georeferencedBy
> georeferenceSources
> typeStatus
> identifiedBy
> identificationReferences
> higherClassification
> measurementDeterminedBy
>

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