Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): Create consistency of terms for material in Darwin Core.
Demand Justification (if the change is semantic in nature, name at least two organizations that independently need this term): Material Sample Task Group, which includes representatives of over 10 organizations.
Stability Justification (what concerns are there that this might affect existing implementations?): None
Implications for dwciri: namespace (does this change affect a dwciri term version)?: No
Proposed attributes of the new term version (Please put actual changes to be implemented in bold and ~strikethrough~):
Term name (in lowerCamelCase for properties, UpperCamelCase for classes): highestBiostratigraphicZone
Term label (English, not normative): Highest Biostratigraphic Zone
Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): Geological Context
Definition of the term (normative): The full name of the highest possible geological biostratigraphic zone of the stratigraphic horizon from which the cataloged itemdwc:MaterialEntity was collected.
Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative):
Examples (not normative): Blancan
Refines (identifier of the broader term this term refines; normative): None
Replaces (identifier of the existing term that would be deprecated and replaced by this term; normative): None
ABCD 2.06 (XPATH of the equivalent term in ABCD or EFG; not normative): not in ABCD
Term change
Current Term definition: https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_highestBiostratigraphicZone
Proposed attributes of the new term version (Please put actual changes to be implemented in bold and ~strikethrough~):
cataloged itemdwc:MaterialEntity was collected.