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I am confused by the star schema of the Darwin Core Archives. My datasets are typically organised around an **Event Core**. In that context, I have the impression that it...
From https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/232.
If a researcher walks around making observations in the field and takes photos to accompany some of those observations now and then, what should be the basisOfRecord?
Copied from https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/223. "Why has Darwin Core got startDayOfYear and endDayOfYear terms when these can be derived from eventDate? It is difficult to know how to determine these terms when...
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The idea here would be to create a list of field names found in the wild and give one or more suggested destinations for those in an index document, where...
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Are there best practices to link related occurrence records? For example I have a dataset resulting from a beam trawl with abundances of fish (say a 100 specimen of Cod...
