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Darwin Core standard for sharing of information about biological diversity.

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A GBIF checklist publisher noticed an issue with the [guidelines](https://dwc.tdwg.org/text/) stating that: > If extensions are being used, each record in the core data MUST have a unique identifier. The...

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...

Was https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=148 ==New Term Recommendation== Submitter: David Remsen Justification: Many taxa belong to large taxonomic families, particularly among the insects but also among other animal and plant groups. Often the...

Term - add
Class - Taxon
Process - need evidence for demand

## New term * Submitter: Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Guillaume Body, Francesca Jaroszynska, Sophie Pamerlon * Efficacy Justification (why is this term necessary?): Occurrence records often contain partial data (i.e. different splits...

Term - add
Class - Occurrence
Process - need evidence for efficacy
normative

## New term * Submitter: @wcornwell * Efficacy Justification (why is this term necessary?): Eusocial organisms not well captured by existing terms: lifestage and sex * Demand Justification (name at...

Term - add
Class - Occurrence
Process - need evidence for demand
normative

## New term * Submitter: John Wieczorek * Efficacy Justification (why is this term necessary?): The hierarchical Event structure is not currently capable of distinguishing what different Events are for....

Term - add
Class - Event
normative

## Term change * Submitter: @damianooldoni @peterdesmet * Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): The comments for `measurementUnit` state: "Recommended best practice is to use the International System of...

Term - change

In the documentation of https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#eventDate and https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#eventTime the comments are exactly the same. For eventTime this might be confusing as the examples give only times of the day, which is...

Term - change
Class - Event
Process - need templated change request
non-normative

## Term change * Submitter: Steven Ginzbarg * Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): * Demand Justification (if the change is semantic in nature, name at least two organizations...

Term - change
Class - Record-level
non-normative

## Term change * Submitter: Markus Döring * Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): The definition is potentially unclear for recombinations Current Term definition: https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_namePublishedIn Current Term definition: https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_namePublishedInID...

Term - change
Process - ready for public comment
Class - Taxon
non-normative