Richard L. Pyle

I had a similar thought as @baskaufs . I think the term "agent" should be used consistently, and then qualified as needed, as something like "a person, defined group of...

I like it!

@tucotuco captured my concerns with this sentence: > It make me a bit nervous that a generic physical object should have a type status attribute. Many people think of it...

@nielsklazenga raises an important point regarding the fact that the definition of `dwc:typeStatus` is presented as a "list": > A list (concatenated and separated) of nomenclatural types (type status, typified...

@afuchs1 yes, exactly -- this is needed to accommodate multiple typeStatus instances for a particular specimen (MaterialSample/MaterialEntity). But in the contenxt of an Identification, there would me multiple separate instances,...

I STRONGLY support this proposal (as those who know my opinions about this general topic could probably guess).

Wow... great discussion! So, I was probably too anemic in my initial response to this proposal. Although I do happen to support UUIDs as the ideal identifier for our context,...

> Triples may not be unique, but I don't think you can get more unique than http://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Mamm:233627? A web address must be globally unique or the internet wouldn't function. Just...

Sure, as long as "http://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Mamm:233627" is minted once, and remains as such always even if someone realizes the catalog number is actually 233672 for this record -- that's great. This,...