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Preparations, Casts #1

Open hollyel opened 6 years ago

hollyel commented 6 years ago

Relevant discussion from Darwin Core Hour:

Preparations Preparations in Paleo Collections: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues/74 preparation as a collection object: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues/89

Casts basisofRecord for casts: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues/98

hollyel commented 5 years ago

Across all fossil data in GBIF this term has about 86,000 unique values (and only used in about 30% of fossilSpecimen records). It is suggested to have a controlled vocab, but the definition for the term does not provide enough detail to make that possible. The main problem for paleo is that we use it for a broad range of information. In short the information falls into:

To better serve paleo data we will need to establish a more detailed definition for this term and most likely proposed new terms to cover other details (e.g. NMNH would like new terms for morphology/anatomy)