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How do we link media items to occurrence records? #191

Open baskaufs opened 3 years ago

baskaufs commented 3 years ago

Currently Audubon Core has ac:associatedObservationReference and ac:associatedSpecimenReference to link a media item to observations and specimens. However, occurrences can be considered as distinct from specimens and observations (as forms of evidence) and may have different identifiers (occurrenceID vs. specimenID for example). So is there a term missing for linking a media item specifically to an occurrenceID?

There are also cases where an occurrence is documented specifically by a media item without any other form of evidence (e.g. camera trap). What term would be used to make those kind of links?

We should look at the XML schema for the AC IPTC extension to see what term (if any) is used to indicate the "foreign key" in the extension table that makes the link to the occurrence record in the core table. That relationship is the one we are talking about here.

edwbaker commented 5 months ago

@tucotuco - on the recommendation of @baskaufs, would you be willing to come and discuss this at a future AC Maintenance Group?

tucotuco commented 5 months ago

Certainly.