David Shorthouse

> I wonder if a better solution to this might actually be within AudubonCore as a term like 'transcription of data' which would cover not only the textual transcription of...

I worry that there are domain-specific issues/practices that come into play here in how `verbatimLabel` might be populated. Take for example this image of a botanical specimen. Do you proceed...

Forgive my ignorance in the nuance that is being expressed here, but this feels like [turtles all the way down](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down). It reminds me of how Crossref in its early days...

`The number of individuals present at the time of the Occurrence.` As in members of the collecting party?

Where I get stuck on `preparation` or this proposed `materialSampleType` is on their use as a verb or as a noun. This proposal appears to be centred on its use...

> a specimen is an individually curated object, at least that is how we defined in DiSSCo after community consultation I'm assuming this means that there is no room in...

@tucotuco @wouteraddink Fair enough. What I'm mindful of in this instance is the potential for a philosophical schism or a functional disconnect between the physical items cared for by collections/museums...

Yep, many of us do this in one form or another. It occurred to me that it would wise if aggregators could make use of something offered by the data...

It's the "from wherever" I'd like to figure how to solve. I expect there are providers to VertNet that also have their data appear on GBIF. The latter (+other aggregators)...

> So to me the question is where the term should live. DwC or NCD? Both? There's variable handling of eml vs DwC terms by aggregators. Some do it well,...