[IPT] basisOfRecord values

[Hannu Saarenmaa]

Yes, indeed such discussion belongs to the TDWG list.   To open the 
thread we'd need some background of earlier discussions on 
basisOfRecord. It is one of the oldest terms and wasn't it even 
mandatory at some point.   If I remember right, related questions of the 
purpose of this term have been discussed earlier.

Hannu

On 2015-06-26 11:37, John Wieczorek wrote:
> It might make sense to split the term, but I think that discussion has 
> to take place in the context of the Darwin Core rather than on the IPT 
> mailing list, no?
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Hannu Saarenmaa 
> <hannu.saarenmaa at helsinki.fi <mailto:hannu.saarenmaa at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
>
>     Dimitri brings up an important issue.   I think this whole list of
>     allowable values of basisOfRecord needs to be thought over. The
>     available controlled values do not meet the needs of earth
>     observation, where we work with quantitative data.
>
>     My working list of values looks like below.  Each of them also
>     requires an individualCount, if possible:
>
>     1. Sighting (of live individuals from a distance, without
>     intervention from an observer)
>
>     2. Observation (of captured, verified individuals, but no
>     particular sampling scheme)
>
>     3. Monitoring (part of a scheme, where all individuals have been
>     counted, resulting in a quantitative estimate of abundance, and
>     lack of related record means abscence)
>
>     Ideally, the protocol is also described in more detail for the
>     entire dataset, in an EML document.  That applies in particular
>     for Monitoring data, where we may be reasoning about abscence.
>
>     I do not list specimens above.  Specimens may be preserved as
>     evidence of observation and monitoring. (It is understood that a
>     specimen record implies an occurrence.)  Literature records and
>     photographs are similar, as they may link to any of the above
>     categories.
>
>     Would it make sense to split basisOfRecord into two terms, which
>     are "occurrenceType" and "evidenceType"?
>
>     - Hannu
>
>     On 2015-06-25 17:21, Dimitri Brosens wrote:
>>     Dear,
>>
>>     I was wondering, in DwC it is stated:
>>
>>     *Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such
>>     as the list of Darwin Core classes. Examples:
>>     "PreservedSpecimen", "FossilSpecimen", "LivingSpecimen",
>>     "HumanObservation", "MachineObservation". For discussion see
>>     http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/dwc:basisOfRecord*
>>
>>     As far as I understand, this is not mandatory and we have been
>>     using terms which are not in the 'supposed' controlled vocabulary
>>     on the tdwg site....
>>
>>
>>     Publishing version #22.1 of resource
>>     belgian-coccinellidae-inbo-occurrences failed: Archive generation
>>     for resource belgian-coccinellidae-inbo-occurrences failed: Can't
>>     validate DwC-A for resource
>>     belgian-coccinellidae-inbo-occurrences. Each row in the
>>     occurrence file(s) must have a basisOfRecord, and each
>>     basisOfRecord must match the Darwin Core Type Vocabulary (please
>>     note comparisons are case insensitive)
>>     Continue to resource overview.
>>
>>     My problem is that IPT refuses to republish my previously
>>     published datasets where we use terms like:
>>     'literatureObservation' , 'literature', fieldObservation or 'unknown
>>
>>     What to do?
>>
>>     Chrs,
>>     Dimi
>>
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