Stan Blum

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icon company Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) - Biodiversity Information Standards icon location San Francisco icon location Trained as a systematic biologist (ichthyology), career in biodiversity informatics (information modeling, system administration). Retired/volunteer.

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New term - organismStatus

I would like to urge some caution here. In other words, please be very explicit about your needs or use-case(s) for a controlled vocabulary describing whether an organism is/was dead...

Complete implementation of adopted parts of Proposal for Categorizing Standards

A while ago, Peter asked me to draft up something that approximates what we would like the standards page to look like. I did that and shared it Ely, asking...

collection object storage location: to share or not to share?

There are two concepts that have the potential be conflated here: location and quantity of storage space. If space is regular and location address is a linear(-ish) metric (cabinet number,...

GeoJSON files and this status of this standard

Hi Rod, et. al., Yes, this standard was left semi-abandoned for quite a while. But it has been picked up again in a joint effort with a group interested in...

Should WoRMS LSID be the value of dwc:taxonID or dwc:scientificNameID in Occurrence core/extension?

Rich Pyle has given two talks on the subject at TDWG meetings. - 2008: https://youtu.be/vPVm5S0qIcs?si=-RBGxsgGyr4i8qhl 19 mins - 2022: https://youtu.be/rmTvUUjBxrI?si=rtQFsJ5sqc7dktdK 56 mins If you'd like to read about it instead,...