David Shorthouse

I get the sense that we're talking cross-purposes here. I see two ways where identifiers are being expressed in JSON-LD and these serve two different purposes. Software that consumes these...

Is this also why am now getting: ``` NoMethodError - undefined method 'reload_connections!' for # ``` Even though this method is clearly stated in the [README](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby)?

Agree with @deepreef here. The DINA consortium is in the midst of modelling this and have come to the realization that a catalogued object (= Physical Specimen, Physical Entity) is...

And yet another conundrum. What is going on with `preparations`, especially if it were moved into `MaterialSample` where it probably belongs? Is it a noun, a verb or a gerund?...

If we extend these realizations to their logical conclusion, we have a problem in how we expect our specimen-based data to be interpreted in the context of an `Occurrence`. Most...

> This is a long-standing problem and not just for herbaria. Mammal occurrences end up at different institutions or collections when skins, skeletons and genetic material get separated over the...

@albenson-usgs If we're strict about the definition of an `Occurrence` then yes, eDNA is an agglomerative `MaterialSample`. The event portion of the `Occurrences` (plural) to which that initially single sample...

> This is an event with many occurrences. Aha! What I *think* you mean here is an event with many "things". You can't have an occurrence without an event -...

> The many "things" are many different sequences that tell us multiple taxa were present at that place and time (or nearby at least). This is an interesting one &...

> Although, technically, unless the bleeding coincides EXACTLY with the radio collar ping, maybe not? Way to rain on my parade, @Jegelewicz.