Wouter Addink

prior standard means that it has not gone through the later developed standards adoption process. It does not mean that it is deprecated, there is however no maintenance group for...

One thing that we need to address is that this standard relates to country names and not their borders. Country borders change over time. The country code for ukraine does...

As I said before, countries are political regions, not geographic regions, and iso country codes refer to the political region and do not change if the geograpic area of a...

I think this should be: from which the collection items were collected, not the country where the collection as being the set of preserved items is coming from?

I am not sure if this property is useful as part of a description? Having one for physical access rights makes sense but for this one it would mean that...

I was thinking these would fall under preservedSpecimen but I see your point that these may also be related to archaeological or ethnographic objects. They might deserve a new category...

I would say we should not try to extend the existing vocabulary of basisOfRecord! Given that the 'basis' part of basisOfRecord has led to so many different interpretations, and all...

I propose to change the property name to: CollectionDiscipline. This is primarily to define what can be expected in terms of data (a geological specimen has other data than a...

Note that in a specimen bulk data refinery use case, for input you would like to know the materialAppearance (should images be expected of a macrofossil, a herbarium sheet or...

Not sure what CD has to do with records? collection descriptions could be stored in any format: digital objects, triples or relational database records. In DwC it makes sense as...