John Wieczorek

The example is correct. It would be good to have a paleontological example as well if someone can provide one. See also issue #137.

@mattbuys No, there isn't a field specifically fo that, but you could include the information in [dwc:dynamicProperties](https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:dynamicProperties) with a key:value pair. For example, { "isNativeLand": true }.

@PatriciaCabrera The process for suggesting changes to Darwin Core can be found at https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.

Hi @JeannetteHo1 It is great to hear that you have a good use for Darwin Core. Darwin Core records almost always consist of fields from multiple categories (classes). For example,...

I would be good to understand your use case better - what is actually happening during the collecting event. I think I understand the part of wanting to capture explicitly...

Related to this discussion, I have added an issue (https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/324) about the inconsistency of the dwc:associatedOccurrences term.

Would NSF be willing to pay for the effort to make that happen?

@debpaul One could capture that information in the previousIdentifications field, so as not to lose it in the abyss of extensions, which do not get indexed and are not visible...

The same thing could go into scientificName is there has not been a change, it will end up in the verbatim version of the scientificName, while the interpreted values will...

@debpaul, @baskaufs, and @CecSve @pzermoglio and @tucotuco have been involved in the development of the vocabularies and testing of the GBIF vocabulary service as a viable solution to the call...