New term - organismStatus

sophiathirza commented 5 years ago

This proposal is under active development in the 'OSR - How Did It Die?' Task Group.

Submitter: Sophia Ratcliffe - NBN Trust (https://nbnatlas.org/)
Proponents (at least two independent parties who need this term): I have had requests from several of our data providers asking for the ability to supply and filter records by alive/dead status
Justification (why is this term necessary?): We receive many records where the occurrence was of a dead animal and at the moment there is no way store the status of the organism in a DwC term with a controlled vocabulary. It is really important in marine records, which often contain stranding information, and for road kill records.

Proposed definition of the new term:

Term name (in lowerCamelCase): organismStatus
Class (e.g. Location, Taxon): organism
Definition of the term: A description of the status of the organism (alive or dead)
Comment (examples, recommendations regarding content, etc.): Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary, with the terms alive, dead, unknown
Refines (identifier of the broader term this term refines, if applicable): Currently we've been using occurrenceRemarks, but it is not easily searchable.
Replaces (identifier of the existing term that would be deprecated and replaced by this term, if applicable): N/A
ABCD 2.06 (XPATH of the equivalent term in ABCD, if applicable): N/A

sophiathirza commented 3 years ago

I have put all the information into the GitHub repository (https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die) and it is now open for your contributions and discussions.

The repository is organised following the Collection Descriptions Interest Group (https://github.com/tdwg/cd) repository, hopefully it's clear but do suggest changes if you think something could be improved.

The proposed new properties (one to the core standard and four in a new extension) have separate issues to comment on the name, definition etc: https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die/issues and I've created an issue for each new controlled vocabulary: https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Avocabulary linked to a google document to add suggestions. The idea was to keep the vocabulary discussion separate from more general details of the property.

What we need now is:

agreement on the new properties (name, definition, whether core or extension)
suggestions for controlled vocabulary terms including definitions
uses cases to support the new properties and controlled vocabulary terms

Please add use cases as individual issues (https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die/issues); I've added one for the roadkill term to get started: https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die/labels/use%20case. I will move the use cases to the folder in the repository (https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die/tree/main/use_cases) once we've agreed which use cases to include. There is some holding text in the folder for now.

I will arrange a meeting for early May to review the feedback and suggestions and decide how we can start writing it all up. Please let me know if you would like to join the call and what time zone you are in. We may need two calls.

I will write to all the attendees of the working session in TDWG 2020, apologies if you get this twice.

albenson-usgs commented 3 years ago

I added a use case. I would like to be on the call if we can make it work given different time zones. My time zone is Mountain Daylight Time (GMT -6). Thanks Sophia for all your efforts on this!

sophiathirza commented 3 years ago

We have a zoom call on 16th June at 18:00 CEST to discuss the feedback and suggestions from the GitHub repository (https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die) and to decide how to proceed.

Let me me know if you would like to join. Thanks.

JohnNichollsTCD commented 3 years ago

Dear Sophia

Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend on that date. I am still very interested in the developments of this group and I would be very happy to receive any updates that may arise from the meeting.

Best wishes

John

John Nicholls

Data Manager / Researcher NorFish Project https://www.tcd.ie/history/research/centres/ceh/norfish/people.php Centre for Environmental Humanities 6th floor, Arts and History Department Trinity College Dublin College Green, Dublin 2 Email: @.**@.> Phone: +3531896-1663

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We have a zoom call on 16th June at 18:00 CEST to discuss the feedback and suggestions from the GitHub repository (https://github.com/tdwg/how-did-it-die) and to decide how to proceed.

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tucotuco commented 1 year ago

The new term dwc:vitality has been ratified and incorporated in the standard. Closing issue.

qgroom commented 3 days ago

For those of you interested in a causeOfDeath term I have added a specific term request here https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/521 Please give it some support with comments and a :+1:

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New term - organismStatus #228

This proposal is under active development in the 'OSR - How Did It Die?' Task Group.