Wouter Addink

this relates to https://github.com/tdwg/cd/issues/149 InstitutionAcronym, see also discussion there. I am actually now thinking we might need a distinction between InstitutionAcronym and InstitutionCode, where InstitutionAcronym is the acronym of a...

@tucotuco I like your idea for a task group to specify a MaterialSample extension! Regarding MaterialSampleType, note that this is also being discussed in the MIDS (see https://github.com/tdwg/mids/issues/14) and CD...

Yes, that is one reason why we have the concept of a digital specimen, which will keep existing if the physical specimen no longer exists. In a catalog of physical...

@deepreef you may contact alex and elspeth, they are probabably willing to see if they can accomodate your timezone if you want to participate in the mids meetings

@deepreef i think a specimen is a kind of materialsample, a subset perhaps as there is a subtle difference between a specimen and a sample. Not in what they are...

Yes that is what I was saying, perhaps i was not clear, there is no difference in what they are, we just treat them differently/for a different purpose

A specimen is a materialSample (so in a venn diagram it falls into that), but I think a materialSample is not always a specimen, e.g. if it is not a...

The term definition is fuzzy, as well as the examples. Might be better replaced by two terms, "mount" and "preservedPart", which are two different things. preservedPart examples: body, bone, antler,...

That is ok for me, but it would be only a minor improvement, since the term itself needs work. See here for an example of what content it currently leads...

The definition of geographical terms for e.g. continents needs to include a polygon that clearly describes the geographical boundaries of the area. for the TDWG standard Niels was mentioning we...