use of "basis of record = material citation" application

[myrmoteras]

looking at the main publishers of basis of record = material citation https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?basis_of_record=MATERIAL_CITATION&occurrence_status=present there seems to be no evidence of the origin of a material citations, that is there is no link to the source of the material citation.

See eg. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?basis_of_record=MATERIAL_CITATION&publishing_org=2d6e0e40-2aee-11d8-aa2d-b8a03c50a862&publishing_org=0674aea0-a7e1-11d8-9534-b8a03c50a862&publishing_org=c1b1455b-18ec-4637-9e0f-18cb0524b7ed&occurrence_status=present

Would it be worthwhile to talk to these publishers to ask for a source of the material citation, eg a publication?

From my point of view it doesn't make sense to have a material citation that does not refer to a source.

in PlutoF there is an associtated references, same in Ukraine Nature conservation Group

[CecSve]

Contact the publishers:

• [x] Biologiezentrum Linz Oberoesterreich (potentially wrong use of basisofRecord)
• [ ] Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns
• [x] Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa (missing source)

[CecSve]

Biologiezentrum Linz Oberoesterreich have corrected the basisofRecord so it is no longer materialCitation

[CecSve]

Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa data are published through Biocase and therefore formatted in ABCD. Bibliographic references (=literature references) are the sources of the occurrence records listed in the dataset.

Biocase helpdesk provided the following advice for sharing sources from ABCD -> DwC:

ABCD has several spots to place references: With Unit/UnitReferences/UnitReference it’s possible to provide one or several literature references for a given specimen or observation (each with TitleCitation, CitationDetail and URI – which could store a DOI). This could be used for papers on research based on that specimens/observation. If the literature was used for identification, you would map it to Identification/References/Reference (again, with Title, Details and URI). If the literature is the source of the record as in your case, Unit/SourceReference would be the best choice - again with Title, Details and URI.