Quentin Groom

Also some relevant debate in the closed issue https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/43

Some more clarification, perhaps in the examples, would help define what an event consists of. Would it include a bioblitz or an expedition for example? From the examples you might...

> I don't see the need for an "event span". I was not suggesting a new term, only that dwc:eventDate can legitimately hold a data span and this should be...

@albenson-usgs wrote: > Maybe it's as simple as changing to "consider detailing event span in `eventDate`". Yes, that is all that is needed. It makes the explicit connection between the...

Certainly, year is a useful term to search on, though most, if not all, databases will do this on-the-fly from a date. I have certainly populated `dwc:year` in some of...

Yes, GBIF is still not handling valid ISO8601 date ranges, though your workaround only works if the date range is shorter than a year and all of mine are longer...

Hi @MattBlissett you don't say it explicitly, but it seems from what you say that you would support the deprecation of `dwc:year`, `startDayOfYear` & `endDayOfYear`. It looks like that is...

I think they should be left blank. The answer is not available. Yes, it would be useful have this better documented, but this is a general problem and no solution...

Before recommending a term identificationConfidence I think some research and discussion is needed. How could this be calculated objectively, or should is be a controlled vocabulary. Who should determine it?...

From Richard Pyle, Thanks for looping me in, Steve. I agree with all your points below. These kinds of problems are popping up in a number of different places in...