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Joint TDWG/RDA group on metadata standards for attribution of physical and digital collection stewardship
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property:action #22

Open dshorthouse opened 4 years ago

dshorthouse commented 4 years ago

action (property)
Definition The name of the single action written as a verb in past tense. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
Existing property
Existing namespace
Existing property identifier
Format string
Required yes
Constraints Controlled vocabulary
Examples "collected","identified"
Notes Thesaurus available at https://tdwg.github.io/attribution/people/dwc/vocubulary/action.xml
qgroom commented 4 years ago

Some actions are only possible with particular basisOfRecord values. We're tending to only consider PRESERVED_SPECIMEN, but there are other actions specific to FOSSIL_SPECIMEN and MACHINE_OBSERVATIONs for example?

Should we recommend which actions should be use with which basisOfRecord?

dshorthouse commented 4 years ago

Very good point. I suppose one naive way of determining that is to look through recordedBy or identifiedBy across all of GBIF for basisOfRecords other than PRESERVED_SPECIMEN or HUMAN_OBSERVATION and see if they have been overloaded in any way to indicate actions we're not accommodating here. Anyone know someone behind PBDB, https://paleobiodb.org/ (the Peanut Butter Database as I like to call it).