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I would like to be able to programmatically check datasets for darwin core naming conventions. To do so, it would be handy to have a simple yet comprehenisve list of...

We have been trying to implement the best practices of not putting various instances of life stages in the same record **e.g.( 8 Adults | 1 Juvenile)** following an advice...

I'm sure this has come up elsewhere, apologies for missing where. Given the background: https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.5/dwca-guide#dwc-a-components and https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/2.5/how-to-publish. Are there examples of a single "core" file that mixes both Occurrence and...

I'm planning to assign native land designations for my occurrences (using www.native.land.ca as source). As far as I can tell, no suitable DWC field for this kind of metadata?

other types of data - general
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term - dynamicProperties

Hello, I am new to DarwinCore (DwC). I want to store DwC-specific data inside photos using the structures and tags (elements of the structure) of xmp-dwc supported by Exiftool. For...

Hi, I've got a problem where I have to create darwin-core files, in a systematic way, from large amounts of data stored in files, databases, API's etc. I've been looking...

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The plankton imaging community in Europe is evaluating the terms `identificationReferences` and `identificationVerificationStatus` for use in identifying the software, version of the software, and machine learning algorithm and if the...

term - Identification
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Is there a filed to record the Conservation code of a species when recording observation data in a survey? For reference: https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/threatened-species/Listings/Conservation%20code%20definitions.pdf

term - Taxon
other types of data - extensions
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A user submitted this information via the Darwin Core Hour [webform](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekd0QSdgiK5ujh6CLZPx9kKTcS-mJRNK_pGWk3b3fHv4x4gQ/viewform): *Timestamp:* 5/23/2019 11:37:10 *Please provide a topic of interest:* The DwC term geologicalContextID example is the Parnell Feature 1...

term - GeologicalContext
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I would like to know why some vocabularies (basisOfRecord and type) have the first letter in upper case, while the vast majority only use lower case (sex, lifeStage, behavior, taxonRank,...