New Term - reportedWeather

[tucotuco]

New term

• Submitter: Humboldt Extension Task Group
• 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): reportedWeather
• Term label (English, not normative): Reported Weather
• Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): Event
• Definition of the term (normative): A list of weather or climatic conditions present during the dwc:Event.
• Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative): Recommended best practice is to use a key:value encoding schema for a data interchange format such as JSON.
• Examples (not normative): {"minimumTemperatureInDegreesFahrenheit": 18, "maximumTemperatureInDegreesFahrenheit": 32}
• 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

[kingenloff]

From our ALA colleagues: 'reportedWeather and reportedExtremeConditions will tend to require embedded JSON to properly report. These could be MoFs [dwc:MeasurementOrFact (MoF) extension].'