Latimer Core

https://tdwg.github.io/ltc/

Latimer Core (LtC) is a data standard for describing collections, proposed by the Collection Descriptions Task Group. It has been designed to support the representation and discovery of groups of items that are encompassed in collections and their subcomponents. The LtC classes and their properties (collectively called terms) aim to represent information that describes these groups of things in enough detail to inform deeper discovery of the resources they contain.

About Latimer Core

Normative Documentation

• Normative Terms List - Official normative documentation for all classes and terms

Non-normative Resources

• Quick Reference Guide - Quick guide to the normative terms and definitions.
• LtC Resources - Additional informative resources include Entity-Relationship Diagrams
• Latimer Core Wiki - Introduction to Latimer Core's structure and purpose.
• LtC Standard Browser - Novel interactive tool to explore the Latimer Core standard
• Discussion Board - Submit a question or provide feedback
• Implementation Guide and Use Cases - "Implementation Experience Report for the Developing Latimer Core Standard: The DiSSCo Flanders use-case"
• Latimer Core Entity-Relationship Diagrams

Latimer Core Task Group - formerly Collection Description Task Group

• The Collection Descriptions Interest Group is the parent interest group that chartered this task group to develop a Collection Descriptions metadata standard. For further information about the parent interest group, see https://github.com/tdwg/cd

How to cite Latimer Core

Citations provide attribution, visibility, and thus support to the work of the authors and of Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) as a not-for-profit organization. At the same time, they promote transparency and accountability, enabling a rights-based approach to standard development.

To cite the current release of the LtC standard

• Grant, S., Jones, J., Webbink, K., Woodburn, M., Vincent, S., Trekels, M., Buschbom, J., Groom, Q. J., Norton, B., Sanderson, R., Engelbrecht, I., Baskauf, S. J., Addink, W., Bloom, D., Breugelmans, L., Chapman, C., Dröge, G., Grosjean, M., Hahn, A., Krimmel, E., Paul, D., Raes, N., Robertson, T., Ulate, W. & Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). TDWG Latimer Core (LtC) Standard [Standard]. https://tdwg.github.io/ltc/
• CITATION_release.CFF - a machine-readable version of the citation

To cite this GitHub repository of LtC with its developing information and ongoing work

• Norton, B., Woodburn, M., Grant, S., Jones, J., Webbink, K., Vincent, S., Trekels, M., Buschbom, J., Baskauf, S. J. & Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Latimer Core (LtC) GitHub Repository [Standard]. https://github.com/tdwg/ltc
• CITATION.CFF - a machine-readable version of the citation