Efficacy Justification (why is this term necessary?): Part of a package of terms in support of biological inventory data.
Demand Justification (name at least two organizations that independently need this term): The Humboldt Extension Task Group proposing this term consists of numerous 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)?: None
Proposed attributes of the new term:
Term name (in lowerCamelCase for properties, UpperCamelCase for classes): verbatimSiteDescriptions
Term label (English, not normative): Verbatim Site Descriptions
Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): Event
Definition of the term (normative): Original textual description of the site(s).
Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative): Site refers to the location at which observations are made or samples/measurements are taken. The site can be at any level of hierarchy. Recommended best practice is to separate multiple values in a list with space vertical bar space ( | ).
New term
Proposed attributes of the new term:
Wet flatwoods | Wet depression surrounded by mesic longleaf pine flatwoods | Ground cover of thick Andropogon spp., Sporobolus floridanus, Vaccinium spp, Rhynchospora spp., Centella erecta, Panicum rigidulum