John Wieczorek

Hi Marcelo, Apologies, but I am going to try to be thorough. As I understand it you would like to know in which field(s) to capture the UTM coordinate information....

Answered in tdwg/dwc#223, but a wiki page to document eventDate-related topics should be made.

Hi Rich, Are you referring to the identifying information (such as accession numbers) for related material shared between herbaria? If that's the case, then the identifying information for the specimens...

Thanks @Jegelewicz for this contribution. There are a lot of issues raised here. I think it might be worth separating them to simplify the discussion. As a preamble (something apparently...

Despite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34&t=25s, VertNet uses the following principle for its vocabularies with respect to continents, exactly matching GBIF. We use the geopolitical concept of continents following the seven continent model, which...

@sharpphyl I might be about to over-answer your question, but I think it is important. In case you only need the bottom line, the answer is that VertNet keeps the...

For reference, continent interpretation in GBIF is a matter of a simple lookup on the verbatim continent value provided by the data publisher using [this table](https://github.com/gbif/parsers/blob/master/src/main/resources/dictionaries/parse/continents.tsv). Problems with this approach...

Both the Darwin Core Event Core and the Darwin Core Occurrence extension include the terms dwc:dynamicProperties. Though there is nothing that would stop each "table" from having the field, it...

I think it would have to, yes.

Following the consensus reached in the discussion about the basisOfRecord for Occurrences found in literature (https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues/62), the basisOfRecord should always reflect the evidence upon which the Occurrence record was based....