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

[Ramona Walls]

This is a good idea. In theory the recommendation could go into a separate
annotation (e.g., we use "example of usage" in BCO), but I don't think that
is necessary for DwC at this juncture.

Ramona

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Ramona L. Walls, Ph.D.
Scientific Analyst, The iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona
Research Associate, Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona
Laboratory Research Associate, New York Botanical Garden

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> Dear all,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> John
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> The following terms have recommendations in the definitions, which we would
> like to move to comments:
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> 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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