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Creating a geospatial range within metadata #205

Closed EOGrady21 closed 8 months ago

EOGrady21 commented 8 months ago

I am representing a dataset which was collected between a range of spatial points (zooplankton images captured from a towed instrument). I do not have the exact lat/lon points for each individual record, but want to capture the range within the event level metadata. Is there a standard way to extend metadata names? Such as decimalLatitudeStart decimalLatitudeEnd?

(I'm very new to dwc, thank you for your patience and advice!)

sformel-usgs commented 8 months ago

Welcome to the DwC world and I'm glad you're taking the time to ask these questions!

Here is some good advice from the OBIS manual: https://manual.obis.org/common_qc.html#uncertain-geolocation and some similar material from the GBIF IPT manual: https://ipt.gbif.org/manual/en/ipt/latest/data-quality-checklist#where-did-the-event-take-place

In short, you probably want to use the footprintWKT term to define a line or polygon, instead of designating a point via decimalLongitude and decimalLatitude.

EOGrady21 commented 8 months ago

Thank you! I appreciate your time to answer my questions.