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                                            Phyllis Sharp

Darwin Core Continent and Water Body

To add another example, the DMNS:Inv collection in GBIF is 29,608 catalog records today. But because we map our continents differently, if you select the seven GBIF continents for DMNS:Inv,...

Darwin Core Continent and Water Body

@tucotuco So when an Arctos higher geography starts with an ocean or an unlisted land mass, what does VertNet (thus GBIF) do with it? We have 20 entries in our...

Darwin Core Continent and Water Body

Thank you so much for your detailed response. In my world, there's no such thing as "over-answering" a technical question. I'm still working through the details of your response and...

Code Table Request - Create locality attribute "waterbody", with values that are aquatic names from IHO (WITHOUT containing associated shapes)

@dustymc > would need a definition added. I'm not sure what a definition for each entity is. For example, the first entry Adriatic Seas has the following data in higher...

Code Table Request - Create locality attribute "waterbody", with values that are aquatic names from IHO (WITHOUT containing associated shapes)

What is the difference between adding "water body" with IHO/Marine Region listed entries in the dropdown table vs. our current "drainage" which has a similar (and somewhat overlapping) dropdown table?...

Code Table Request - Create locality attribute "waterbody", with values that are aquatic names from IHO (WITHOUT containing associated shapes)

Ok, the overlap makes sense. It looks like the drainage table is not assertable either but has an accepted source as Mariel identified. Is using the IHO table for the...

Island Group - do we need it?

> That explains nothing to me! HOW is it used? It can't be part of higher geography (where it used to be used), so where can I enter island group...