gsautter
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1 year ago could it be possible to add an attribute "habitat" to the the options in material citations?
There are lists of habitat terms, eg in ENVO, or other vocabularies that could be provided.
Those might even be helpful for tagging collectedFrom ... where can we get such those vocabularies?
Currently, we use "collected from" which in fact has two meaning: From a tree, from a stomach, and Karroo, Miombo forst, etc.
Question is how often these two levels of granularity even exist next to one another in the same materials citation (which I don't think is all too often) ... so wouldn't adding habit an extra term mainly diversify the data between two terms (complicating aggregation) and burden the user with choosing which one to use, complicating materials citation parsing yet more?
That said, I think we should look at quite a number of examples before adding yet another term, and only then decide whether or not making such a distinction is worthwhile the aforementioned adverse effects.
The alternative being to stick with collectedFrom, and filter respective values by means of those vocabularies further down the line ...
could it be possible to add an attribute "habitat" to the the options in material citations?
There are lists of habitat terms, eg in ENVO, or other vocabularies that could be provided.
Currently, we use "collected from" which in fact has two meaning: From a tree, from a stomach, and Karroo, Miombo forst, etc.