New Term - compilationTypes

[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): compilationTypes

• Term label (English, not normative): Compilation Types

• Organized in Class (e.g., Occurrence, Event, Location, Taxon): Event

• Definition of the term (normative): A statement specifying whether data reported are derived from sampling events, ancillary data compiled from other sources, or a combination of both.

• Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc., not normative): This term is only relevant if the dwc:Event is an inventory. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.

• Examples (not normative): survey only; compilation including surveys; compilation not including surveys

• 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]

Term name updated from compilationType to compilationTypes following the precedence that plurality should match the content a field can accept.