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🍀 Ad hoc checklist of alien species in Belgium
https://trias-project.github.io/ad-hoc-checklist
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Dates in format dd-mm-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd #46

Closed LienReyserhove closed 4 months ago

LienReyserhove commented 4 months ago

Date first observation and date last observation includes information about the year a species was first/last observed. However, some records in the ad hoc checklist are very specific (e.g. this line) and report the day and month of the observation in that year. Should we allow this information in the eventDate, right now expressed as a year range yyyy/yyyy? I can image this has implications on the analyses further downstream (e.g. the unified checklist, indicators, etc.).

@damianooldoni @timadriaens

damianooldoni commented 4 months ago

The unification process to generate the unified checklist already takes into account this situation: see https://github.com/trias-project/unified-checklist/blob/125d39928dcba73243454b95c0b1b338940103be/src/5_unify_information.Rmd#L70-L74.

So, I suggest to publish eventDate as detailed as possible in the ad-hoc checklist.

At indicators level we work at year level, but we use the unified checklist, so no problems at all.

LienReyserhove commented 4 months ago

Great, thx for the feedback!