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

Peter Desmet peter.desmet.work at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 20:14:34 CET 2015


As mentioned in https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/78, can't we use
<code></code> to mark up examples? How would that work in RDF?

On 19 January 2015 at 17:12, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> While we are at it, we might as well also consider how examples are marked
> up, as this will affect all of the same terms. A comment to the issue [1]
> has been logged proposing "to quote all examples in RDF using triple
> single quotes, e.g., '''this is quoted''' so we can mark this up in html
> any way we like."
>
> [1] https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/26
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Steve Baskauf <
> steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
>>  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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
>> Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences
>>
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>>
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