John Wieczorek

It's exactly because of this duality that I wanted to have something concrete and unambiguous. The literature discussion seemed to solidify that - the basisOfRecord should reflect the best evidence...

Good questions, and a good opportunity to share some useful links to newly renovated documentation. 1. GBIF is in the process of preparing "Current Practices for Generalizing Sensitive Species Occurrence...

Darwin Core provides several terms to help people distinguish data sets, namely [institutionCode](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#institutionCode), [collectionCode](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#collectionCode), [datasetName](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#datasetName), and their related identifiers [institutionID](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#institutionID), [collectionID](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#collectionID), and [datasetID](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#datasetID). The `institutionCode` is meant to hold the...

I support the primacy of persistence and resolvability. I like the suggestion of promoting ISNI and I hope the people working on the NCD standards are also listening and can...

Excellent On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Alex Thompson wrote: > TDWG NCD Co-Convener (w/ @debpaul ) Here. > > For NCD (Standards track), our work is likely...

I would say that it is highly recommended to use verbatim fields to capture data that are as close to the source (labels, field notes, catalog cards, ledgers, herbarium sheets,...

I second what James has said here. In practical terms of publication, the star schema is a current limitation, the demise of which is likely forthcoming with the advent of...

Hi Jess, Darwin Core supports a small subset of the Linnaean ranks - those that the community has settled on (so far) as essential. One way to deal with the...

There is no proscription of HTML as content, except where one is supposed to follow controlled vocabularies, which do not contain HTML. Indeed, Arctos uses HTML in various fields where...

Darwin Core does not support the transfer of digital media, but it does support the metadata for those media and the capacity to point to them in web-accessible locations. The...