Change term (label) - State Province

[ben-norton]

Term (Label) change

Label Change Proposal

• Submitter: Ben Norton
• Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): Better encompass the concept and implements an internationalization approach to the term
• Demand Justification (if the change is semantic in nature, name at least two organizations that independently need this term):
• Stability Justification (what concerns are there that this might affect existing implementations?): None, aside from the general implications associated with label changes in general.
• Implications for dwciri: namespace (does this change affect a dwciri term version)?: Not that I am aware.

Current Term definition: https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_stateProvince Current Label: State Province

Proposed attributes of the new term version (Please put actual changes to be implemented in bold and ~strikethrough~):

• Label Name: First Order Division
• Term name (in lowerCamelCase for properties, UpperCamelCase for classes): Not Applicable
• Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): No Change
• Definition of the term (normative): No Change
• Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative):
• Examples (not normative):
• Refines (identifier of the broader term this term refines; normative):
• Replaces (identifier of the existing term that would be deprecated and replaced by this term; normative):
• ABCD 2.06 (XPATH of the equivalent term in ABCD or EFG; not normative):

According to the ISO 3166-2 standard, there are 104 types of first order divisions. ~30% first order divisions are either a state or province The following API endpoint provides the list of unique first order division types: https://api.naturalsciences.org/api/v1/products/geography/first-order-division-types?limit=999

[ben-norton]

Endpoint update: https://data.naturalsciences.org/api/v2/data-products/geography/first-order-divisions

[MattBlissett]

It would make sense to update county and municipality at the same time.

If the labels are changed, I think the definitions should also be changed. There are many exceptions to the definitions as they are -- several countries use "county" as their first-level division (Albania, Cabo Verde, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Kenya, Liberia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Sweden). The United Kingdom has countries as a first-level division (England, Wales etc), and counties after that.

A few use "province" as their second level division: Burkina Faso, Bolivia, Chile, Spain, Fiji, Italy, Morocco, Oman, Peru, Belgium, and many more use the terms given in the definition for stateProvince (state, province, canton, department, region) as their second-level division.