rondlg
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2 years ago DECISION STANDARD: GRENADA HIERARCHY
Waterbody hierarchy
- LocSeaGulf_tab = Caribbean
- LocSpecialGeographicUnit_tab = Neotropics [Biogeography/Region (https://www.worldwildlife.org/biomes)]
Cultural Region
- CulCulturalRegion = West Indies
Political hierarchy
- SitJurisdiction = LEAVE BLANK
- LocContinent_tab = North America
- LocCountry_tab = Grenada
Island hierarchy
- LocIslandGrouping = West Indies
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- Antilles
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- Lesser Antilles
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- Windward Islands
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- Grenada
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- LocIslandName = Carriacou; Petite Martinique
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DISCUSSION POINTS:
How do Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, The Bahamas, Grenada and the Virgin Islands fit into the new module structure?
From Chris P. “Was it determined that the group does not want to continue using West Indies as a Biogeography / Region term? A year or 2 ago when we last discussed in Anthro I think we had approved maintaining that term in that field - and again there was a bit of ambiguity in respect to any sensitivities. We were more inclined to use that term as it encompassed just the islands (including the Bahamas) whereas Caribbean could include the neighboring coasts etc. So if we switch to Caribbean then our Biogeography region expands to potentially include more of our Circum-Caribbean coded collections. Also a possibility but leads to next question regarding the hierarchies.
If we have West Indies on Island Grouping then we add to the issue we discussed previously about not having enough fields , as is already the case, to accomodate all the island groupings etc. I'm a little unclear on how the hierarchies will work here.
We would have more multiple island groupings in the Island grouping field (?) Regardless if you could look at the 34 records and let me know what looks out of place as it currently stands I would appreciate it. I haven't moved West Indies over to Island grouping yet - but with an example of the Virgin Islands this is what we get at present: ”
There are places classified as the West Indies in Anthro for a couple or reasons (culturally and for filing purposes) how do we handle those? For example Bermuda and the Bahamas. Physiographically, Bermuda is an isolated oceanic island in the North Atlantic Ocean, not a part of the Caribbean, West Indies, North American continent or South American continent. But culturally it identifies with the West Indies. So how do we document both the geography and the culture?
There will be “infinite” parents in the new sites module and so the hierarchy can handle as many levels as we need it to we just have to agree on a single one. This will make backfilling efficient and therefore data entry quicker all around.
Islands of Bermuda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Bermuda Islands of The Bahamas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_The_Bahamas
DECISION: Pending.
West Indies was moved to the top of the Island hierarchy but we have the Cultural Region field that could also validly hold the term West Indies for places like Bermuda, this follows the usage for Pacific/Oceania. See below for proposed hierarchy for these locations