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Property:continent
| Label | Continent |
| Definition | The name of the continent in which the Location occurs. |
| Usage | The name of the continent from which objects in the collection originated. |
| Existing property | dwc:continent |
| Existing class | Location |
| Existing property identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/continent |
| Format | Text |
| Required | No |
| Repeatable | No |
| Constraints | Controlled vocabulary |
| Examples | Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America |
| Notes | Based on best practice Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. --> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7029392. For cultural collections such as economic botany use the Region field to record things like Pacific to replace Oceania. |
Lots of the geographical terms are defined in http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v1.0.rdf, in particular in finer granularity e.g. islands -> tracts of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#continent --> Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. --> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7029392
What about TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) https://www.tdwg.org/standards/wgsrpd/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
Updating definition to match dwc
| Definition | The name of the continent in which the Location occurs. |
| Dimension | |
| Existing property | dwc:continent |
| Existing class | Location |
| Existing property identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/continent |
| Format | controlled vocabulary |
| Required | No |
| Repeatable | No |
| Constraints | |
| Examples | Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America |
| Notes | This terms refers to the continent from which the collection originated. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. --> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7029392 |
One comment to make here is that cultural collections (in the context of natural history) for example economic botany will need a parallel field to Continent. culturalRegion so as not to avoid the use of culturally dubious terms. "Oceania" is an example from our collection where the term Pacific is preferred.
The definition of geographical terms for e.g. continents needs to include a polygon that clearly describes the geographical boundaries of the area. for the TDWG standard Niels was mentioning we have these, or at least had, as shape files at http://www.kew.org/gis/tdwg/index.html
For NHCs it is quite relevant to distinguish between temperate and tropical Asia. This is only reflected in the TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions [https://www.tdwg.org/standards/wgsrpd/], but this is at the status of 'Prior standard'. What does that mean?
One comment to make here is that cultural collections (in the context of natural history) for example economic botany will need a parallel field to Continent. culturalRegion so as not to avoid the use of culturally dubious terms. "Oceania" is an example from our collection where the term Pacific is preferred.
Is there an existing vocabulary on culturalRegion?
prior standard means that it has not gone through the later developed standards adoption process. It does not mean that it is deprecated, there is however no maintenance group for it.
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 18:06, Niels Raes [email protected] wrote:
For NHCs it is quite relevant to distinguish between temperate and tropical Asia. This is only reflected in the TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions [https://www.tdwg.org/standards/wgsrpd/], but this is at the status of 'Prior standard'. What does that mean?
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