New Term - eventDurationUnit

[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)?: Needs ecoiri: equivalent.

Proposed attributes of the new term:

• Term name (in lowerCamelCase for properties, UpperCamelCase for classes): eventDurationUnit
• Term label (English, not normative): Event Duration Unit
• Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): Event
• Definition of the term (normative): The units associated with the eco:eventDurationValue.
• Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative): Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
• Examples (not normative): minutes; hours; days; months; years
• 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]

Our colleagues at ALA asked 'Does the eventDuration/eventDurationUnit refer to the expected or actual duration?' They followed up with: 'Since dwc:eventDate explicitly allows for start/end dates and times (eg. 2019-07-02T12:03:00/2019-07-02T12:15:00 has an event duration of 15 minutes, it would seem that the eventDuration is the expected duration.'

I think there is some confusion here in what information is expected for the event timing terms. In this example, 15 min isn't the expected duration, it is the actual duration of the Event so eco:eventDuration is '15' and eco:eventDurationUnit is 'minutes.' This feedback suggests it would be useful to add explicit remarks in the comments of eco:eventDuration and eco:eventDurationUnit explaining how they relate to and complement dwc:eventDate (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventDate).

[kingenloff]

Term definition updated to reflect the proposed new term name change from eco:eventDuration to eco:eventDurationUnit (https://github.com/tdwg/hc/issues/38).