Is there or should there be a form of DwC-A serialized with JSON? If
no, should Interest Group X ( X= ???) initiate some discussion or
Task. If IG X is already at work, where is its discussion?
Alternatively, should my question be something like "What is the JSON
alternative to DwC-A and where is it, or should it be, discussed?"
Thanks
Bob
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UMASS-Boston
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The current DwC Terms [1] (carrying Identifier
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/2015-03-19/terms/ and Date Modified: 2015-06-02
) is confusing (confused? silent? ) about the relation of the "sister
classes" to the terms intended (?) to be used therewith. For example,
dwc:Event, dwc:MachineObservation, and dwc:HumanObservation could
reasonably(?) all have dwc:eventDate applied to them. But
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventDatesuggests
Class=dwc:Event.
Now it's human-clear that for each of the "multiple" boldface lines in
the index, the second and subsequent terms are meant to be special
cases of the left most one. What I can't see is whether [1] intends to
encourage (require?) this in some explicit way, and where that
explicit way is to be found. (I had a dream that the DwC RDF Guide
might take a position....) .
Thanks.
--Bob
p.s. I concede that some answers might lurk in the ongoing move of
resources to http://tdwg.github.io/dwc/terms/. My second dream was
that tdwg.github.io does Content Negotiation and curl would rescue
me....
[1] http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm
--
Robert A. Morris
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125-3390
Filtered Push Project
Harvard University Herbaria
Harvard University
email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com
web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/
web: http://wiki.filteredpush.orghttp://wiki.datakurator.nethttp://taxonconceptexplorer.org/http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
