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I'm sorry I missed this discussion when it began, because the "nested occurrences" idea is a novel and interesting solution to a difficult problem. However, while it suits relational databasing,...

Here's a good summary from Data Carpentry about missing values as blanks: https://datacarpentry.org/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson/02-common-mistakes/#null

When auditing DwC datasets I often see iQ used in odd ways. A recent job had a family name in scientificName and "indet." in iQ, and a genus name in...

@Jegelewicz writes "What happens when you have two determiners making conflicting identifications? Are you forced to choose one or can you provide both with methods used and let the users...

Hi, Markus. You're very brave to try to tackle chresonyms on a "rules" basis, because a rule in the usual sense would have to refer to what librarians for many...

Hi, Matt. Great to see the library in Ruby, I think I'm allergic to Java. The nomenclature graph also looks good, although I'm not sure how TaxonNameRelationship works? For Markus'...

I think what's happening is that dzen2 is "claiming" the X buffer while it's running, and blocking use by xclip and xsel!

Many thanks @tucotuco and @timrobertson100. So the (single) eMOF could contain records with "eventID" for the event properties and "occurrenceID" for the occurrence properties, which sounds like it would work...