Open kehh opened 6 years ago
Hello @kehh Here are the definitions just so that we can see them during the discussion.
You say you have a field that stores the "method/s" for how the georeference was derived, and so often contains one or more of these values: (GPS, Gazetteer, Label, Map). It does seem a looser fit that what you might be hoping for, but I'd say that dwc:georeferenceProtocol does fit. You are saying you "used a map" or "used the label" to georeference. It would be great to say which map or which Gazetteer was used (dwc:georeferenceSources) but you may or may not know this, of course. Additionally, you could then use dwc:georeferenceRemarks to elaborate on what, if any, assumptions were made in georeferencing using the (GPS, Gazetteer, Label, and/or Map). In the dwc:georeferenceRemarks, since you are migrating a legacy dataset, you could put a blanket statement for all the records (if you are in the same predicament for all records, for example):
We'll see what @tucotuco, @dbloom and others have to say before we mark this "answered."
Thanks @debpaul. It looks like using this loose definition may indeed be the way forward, and I have a feeling that this is what a fairly large number of collections will use (in anger or ignorance).
@kehh in anger?
@debpaul just a throw away comment.
Hi folks. I am late to answer, but to me the protocol is something that you can reference that tells someone how to achieve the same results, given the same sources. To me, the values you are asking about are categories of sources rather than specific ones. But knowing that the source of coordinates is a GPS tells the user something even if the protocol is not captured, and really is a source and not a protocol. I would not put those values in georeferenceProtocol. To me they are just non-specific sources, and I would put them in georeferenceSources rather than in georeferenceRemarks where they would be mixed with other concepts.
Hi All, I'm currently working on a project that's migrating legacy data to a DwC inspired data model. One field contains the method through which a georeference was derived with values including:
These don't align with specific DwC definition of georeferenceProtocol which says:
georeferenceSources is also not ideal for this as we would expect a listing of specific resources that were consulted in georeferencing.
So my questions are: