Hi Antonio, Cool that you're trying to express this in Darwin Core!
1. There is no description element in DwC, but GBIF has developed a description extension that may be of use. The description is free text, but you can indicate its type: http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/description.xml. Since this is an extension, you can have multiple descriptions relating back to a single species. For more info on how to express these type of information, this document is probably a good start: http://www.gbif.org/resource/80725 2. DwC has a habitat element: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#habitat. It does not suggest any controlled vocabularies 3. I'm not aware of an abundance term Cheers, Peter On 9 January 2017 at 17:46, Antonio Rojas Castro <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I am new to the Darwin Core World, so I apologize in advance if I am missing > any basics. > > I am working on a project that aims to describe plants according to Haller. > We are using DwC to encode information with XML; however, I am missing the > following elements: > > an element to store small descriptions of plants; > > an element to store the place where plants may be found — by that I am not > meaning the actual location where the plant was identified but its habitat > in general terms. > > an element to store the frequency of the plant, in other words, if it is > common or not. > > I am currently using my own terms to store this information: > > <hllr:addition> > <hllr:description>foliis subhirsutis, ovato lanceolatis, > acute serratis, peiolis > florigeris ramosis, folia superantibus.</hllr:description> > <hllr:keyword>Wegränder</hllr:keyword> > <hllr:keyword>Gebüsch</hllr:keyword> > <hllr:keyword>felsig</hllr:keyword> > <hllr:frequency>verbreitet</hllr:frequency> > </hllr:addition> > > I am wondering whether I could store that information in DwC tags instead — > or should I be using Dublin Core tags to describe this kind of information? > > Many thanks. > > Best, > > > > -- > Dr. Antonio Rojas Castro > Research assistant, Cologne Center for eHumanities > Communication coordinator, EADH > <http://www.antoniorojascastro.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > tdwg-content mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content > _______________________________________________ tdwg-content mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content
