Missing fields in the LtC List of Terms document

[baskaufs]

Section 3.3.3.1 of the SDS describes metadata fields that should or must be provided for each term. Several of these are currently missing from the LtC List of Terms:

• Term version IRI (REQUIRED)
• Modified (RECOMMENDED)
• Decision (RECOMMENDED)

The first two are related to the version date when the term was last modified. Give that LtC is a new vocabulary, the last modified date will be the same as the creation date (in this case the ratification date of 2024-02-28). The Term version IRI will be the Term IRI, concatenated with a dash, then the last modified date. (See http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/associatedMedia as an example).

Once @MattBlissett runs the script to build the CSV tables in the rs.tdwg.org repo, theses values can be retrieved from the term_modified column of the appropriate table for the termlist (i.e. namespace). Those tables will have the path

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/master/database/database.csv

where database is a name assigned for that namespace. For example, the EXIF terms borrowed by Audiovisual Core have the database name exif-for-ac, with the table located at:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/master/exif-for-ac/exif-for-ac.csv

The assigned database names that will be used to create the folders when Matt runs the script are listed here under "database" for each namespace. The termlists that are included within each vocabulary will be added here after he runs the script:

https://github.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/blob/master/vocabularies/vocabularies-members.csv

and the database names associated with the termlists will be here:

https://github.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/blob/master/term-lists/term-lists.csv in the database column.

The table joining term names to the decisions that affected them is here:

https://github.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/blob/master/decisions/decisions-links.csv

So the build script needs to go through this table and add a link to each decision that affected it. The IRI to be used for the link is formed by concatenating https://github.com/tdwg/rs.tdwg.org/blob/master/decisions/decisions-links.csv and the local name listed in the table.

You can see what this looks like for a DwC term that has been the subject of a lot of Decisions: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/basisOfRecord .

[ben-norton]

@baskaufs The term version IRI was withheld pending a specific date. I wasn't sure how the date was created (RDF timestamp or ratification back date). Fortunately, now we know its the ratification date. I'll update them accordingly.

[ben-norton]

@baskaufs document_modified = the last modification of that specific term?

[baskaufs]

It's term_modified from the appropriate list of terms CSV for that namespace. See the notes above for how to find it. Not every term in a List of Terms document will have been changed the last time the document was modified.