Ed Baker

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This initially seems like a straightforward enough proposal, but how does it interplay with the existing (and numerous) verbatim fields within DarwinCore? It seems to risk becoming a dumping ground...

@albenson-usgs I think the only way of going back to the original data here is to include a label image. Having a label field is one potential source of error,...

The issue I see with adding verbatimLabel or an equivalent (in name it doesn't cover other data sources, such as occurrences from a notebook) is that if we have that,...

Having had a more thorough search it looks like GBIF have already minted a verbatimLabel term, and that it is used in the DwC-A format already by Plazi - [http://plazi.org/api-tools/api/](http://plazi.org/api-tools/api/).