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developing a trait data framework for use in the Biodiversity Exploratories
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rename 'specimenID' to 'occurenceID' #13

Closed fdschneider closed 7 years ago

fdschneider commented 7 years ago

The DWC proposes occurenceID

"The occurrenceID is supposed to (globally) uniquely identify an occurrence record, whether it is a specimen-based occurrence, a one-time observation of a species at a location, or one of many occurrences of an individual who is being tracked, monitored, or recaptured. Making it globally unique is quite a trick, one for which we don't really have good solutions in place yet, but one which ontologists insist is essential."

caterinap commented 7 years ago

This seems to go better with basisOfRecord and has the advantage of recoding different measurements in time. But if they already have trouble making it unique not sure we can do a lot better, maybe by combining date+other fields?

aostrow commented 7 years ago

Does the term occurrence fit with all species we want to collect, like e.g. from literature review? We can (again) call it as we want and relate it in the glossary file to an DwC term. (As they write occurendeID for DwC should be somehow unique and as already mentioned (^) we may should compile it as a combination of something. BExIS team did it for specis transfer to GBIF by using DastasetID-PlotID-SequenceNumber(based on species entries in the dataset).)

fdschneider commented 7 years ago

occurenceID seems to be more conventional than specimenID. Both do not really apply to literature data, which are not assessed at the specimen level, but at the species level. In case of species level information, I would go with NA for occurence level, also to clarify that these are NOT occurence data.

Thus concluding