Richard L. Pyle

Hokay... where to begin? (Note to @timrobertson100: Now is the time to go get that cup of tea...) So, I first climbed into this rabbit hole several years ago, when...

@campmlc : > Regardless of the persistence of the Organism, the "identifier" associated with this organism absolutely has to persist as a linking parent identifier with all subsequent derived parts...

@albenson-usgs : > Ok but the `associatedSequences` is basically the identification of the occurrences. Using @deepreef's logic above it's the intersection of `Taxon` via `Identification` that tells you there was...

> ...and, having supplied a near-perfect clone of the item as an image, could we then eliminate all the existing verbatimX terms? If you want `verbatimX`, look at the image!...

Thanks, @qgroom !

I have a subtly different view of this. I don't see the instances of a class Evidence being the actual items you list (`dwc:PreservedSpecimen`, `dcmitype:StillImage`, `foaf:Document`, etc.). Rather I see...

@tucotuco -- I'm not sure I follow. The context in which I suggested "or `dwc:Identification`" was based on a realization we had that exactly the same things can serve as...

Thanks, @baskaufs -- this is VERY helpful! First, full disclosure: our actual implementation looks more like the DSW model than "my" model. And it works very well. However the thing...

I think @tucotuco is probably right -- we'd need to collectively understand (and agree on) the ontology of this stuff before it makes sense to flesh out a DwC class....

@dagendresen : We have a similar conundrum in our world: A team of three divers go on a dive together. They stay pretty close to each other during the dive....