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A simple registry of controlled vocabularies used for terms found in GBIF mediated data.
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Suggestions for vocabularies to do: waterBody, island and island group and sampleSizeUnit and organismQuantityType #145

Open ManonGros opened 4 months ago

ManonGros commented 4 months ago

Thanks Cecilie for your presentation!

I think that it would be great to have a vocabulary for waterBody (to enable discovery and use of freshwater and marine data). Similarly, if there could be vocabularies for island and island group, the community might appreciate.

One (difficult) vocabulary that would be great to have would be units! Especially sampleSizeUnit and organismQuantityType. It would facilitate interoperability of the data provided. I don't know how doable this is but that would help a lot in analysis.

ymgan commented 4 months ago

Hey, I don't know if there is any plan in the future to have vocabulary also for the measurementUnit of emof extension. OBIS recommends using emof for samplingSizeUnit and BODC vocab P06 collection is the one we use for measurement unit and IDs. If GBIF decides to have vocab for units later on, perhaps the P06 collection can be helpful!

Cheers

ManonGros commented 1 month ago

Suggestion of Vocabulary for waterBody from the draft of Freshwater Guide: "Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names." See also: https://github.com/gbif/doc-freshwater-data-publishing-guide/issues/17