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Hi to all, Thank you very much for the DwC Hour webinar on "[Imagining a Global Gazetteer of Georeferences](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars#chapter-17-imagining-a-global-gazetteer-of-georeferences)". I am now dealing with old Caribbean localities and trying to...
Hello, I'm currently working on a project to convert observation records held by my city government to simple Darwin Core for upload to GBIF and potentially public use. This will...
Should the basis of record remain PreservedSpecimen with "discarded" in the disposition term?
A user submitted this information via the Darwin Core Hour [webform](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekd0QSdgiK5ujh6CLZPx9kKTcS-mJRNK_pGWk3b3fHv4x4gQ/viewform): *Timestamp:* 5/11/2020 16:03:40 *Please provide a topic of interest:* For sampling event data, where is dynamicProperties intended to be...
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 12:02:52 *Please provide a topic of interest:* geologicalContext: links to OpenContext which would put zooarchaeological sites and...
example: **herd of 5 zebras** critical here is that each animal has a _known identity_. would this be considered a _single Occurrence_, but represented by _five Occurrence entries_ (sharing a...
In a proposal for basisOfIdentification terms, @ianengelbrecht provides references that could be useful in documentation of dwc:identificationQualifier [This article on open nomenclature](https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.12594). See also https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/217
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 12:02:06 *Please provide a topic of interest:* lithostratigraphicTerms: it seems to be both the age (time) and...
This is a cross-reference to Darwin Core issue https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/221 for documentation followup.
A user submitted this information via the Darwin Core Hour [webform](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekd0QSdgiK5ujh6CLZPx9kKTcS-mJRNK_pGWk3b3fHv4x4gQ/viewform): *Timestamp:* 2/19/2019 15:32:26 *Please provide a topic of interest:* Are people reporting earliest and latest chronostratigraphy? If they are,...