Richard L. Pyle

@dagendresen : > When asking if the Agent is needed to make an Occurrence, I had in my mind (the misconception?) that the Occurrence was the intersection of the organism...

@dagendresen : Thanks for the detailed use case! I've never considered a use case like this before, so I found it helpful to see how well my own thinking of...

Thanks for the clarification & confirmation. > Also, material conserved as the same Accession (same accession number, aka dwc:catalogNumber) includes as time pass by (and seeds are distributed), seeds from...

This is a very important point. The term `Organism` has a very specific meaning in DwC. When that term was being discussed, one of the key questions was whether it...

> As in members of the collecting party? Actually... yeah. I haven't fully committed to that implementation yet; but I can see a clean pathway to representing a count of...

I think this issue is related to the `MaterialSample` (not `Organism` class), and would probably better managed with a hierarchical structure for instances of `MaterialSample`. To make this work, I...

Thanks, @tucotuco -- this is *very* helpful! My inclination would be to leave it alone, and not even mess with a proposed new term at this time, until we see...

Thanks! RE: the example, I was following the template of other similar terms in DwC (e.g., [materialSampleID](https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:materialSampleID)). Also, I generally try to minimize the inclusion of dereferencing metadata from identifiers;...

@dagendresen : MANY thanks for the great example! > Do you consider urn:uuid: as dereferencing metadata? Well... I guess it's technically not "dereferencing" metadata (like `http://dx.doi.org/` or `https://doi.org/`); but it...

Thanks, @tucotuco > I took pause at first at the "and potentially other MaterialSamples were derived, or which they collectively comprise" in the definition. It seemed odd to refer to...