1. Introduction
From time to time changes are proposed to Darwin Core terms through the process described in the Term Change Policy section of the Darwin Core Namespace Policy [NAMESPACEPOLICY]. This document shows the outcome of decisions based on officially proposed changes.
2. Decisions
| Decision-2009-12-07_1 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2009-12-07_1 |
| Description | The recommended controlled vocabulary for dcterms:type was changed from a vocabulary of Darwin Core Classes (Occurrence, Taxon, Location, Event) to the DCMI type vocabulary (PhysicalObject, Event, StillImage, MovingImage, Sound, Text, Dataset) to be consistent with the standard use of that term. |
| Date | 2009-12-07 |
| Decision-2009-12-07_2 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2009-12-07_2 |
| Description | The recommended controlled vocabulary for basisOfRecord remains the Darwin Core Type Vocabulary, but the Dublin Core classes StillImage, MovingImage, and Sound were removed from that list as these are to be used as vocabulary for the dcterms:type term. |
| Date | 2009-12-07 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_3 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_3 |
| Description | The Dublin Core type vocabulary values StillImage, MovingImage, and Sound have not been added to the list of valid values for Darwin Core type vocabulary pending further insights from the RDF Interest Group about how best to manage basisOfRecord when a record can be "about" more than one subject. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_4 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_4 |
| Description | The recommendation to add alias as an attribute of Darwin Core terms was rejected as being an application-specific recommendation without sufficiently demonstrated community need. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_5 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_5 |
| Description | The label for all terms have been changed to words in English rather than lower camel case term names. This will facilitate discovery with search engines and is consistent with Dublin Core. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_6 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_6 |
| Description | The subclasses for Darwin Core type vocabulary have been removed. These were seen as too constraining when considering biodiversity information in the context of linked data. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_7 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_7 |
| Description | The term Darwin Core term dwc:occurrenceDetails has been deprecated in favor of a new record-level term from the Dublin Core - dcterms:references, which is broader in meaning than the deprecated term. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_8 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_8 |
| Description | Added term namePublishedInYear. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_9 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_9 |
| Description | Added term georeferencedDate. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2011-10-16_10 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2011-10-16_10 |
| Description | Added term identificationVerificationStatus. |
| Date | 2011-10-16 |
| Decision-2013-10-09_11 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2013-10-09_11 |
| Description | Added term MaterialSample. |
| Date | 2013-10-09 |
| Decision-2013-10-09_12 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2013-10-09_12 |
| Description | Added Darwin Core type vocabulary term MaterialSample. |
| Date | 2013-10-09 |
| Decision-2013-10-09_13 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2013-10-09_13 |
| Description | Added term materialSampleID. |
| Date | 2013-10-09 |
| Decision-2014-10-26_14 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2014-10-26_14 |
| Description | Added class term Organism with associated properties organismID, organismName, organismScope, organismRemarks, and associatedOrganisms. Associated terms previousIdentifications and associatedOccurrences with the new Organism class. Removed the individualID term. |
| Date | 2014-10-26 |
| Decision-2014-10-26_15 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2014-10-26_15 |
| Description | Deprecated the Darwin Core Type Vocabulary (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype) in favor of the corresponding terms in the dwc namespace (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms). Added terms PreservedSpecimen, LivingSpecimen, FossilSpecimen, MachineObservation, and HumanObservation to the Darwin Core namespace (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms). |
| Date | 2014-10-26 |
| Decision-2014-10-30_16 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2014-10-30_16 |
| Description | Added comments recommending list value separation with ' | ' for terms that can be constructed from concatenated lists. Added comment recommending that dynamicProperties be populated with JSON. |
| Date | 2014-10-30 |
| Decision-2014-11-06_17 |
| Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decisions.html#Decision-2014-11-06_17 |
| Description | Deprecated the Dublin Core rights term in favor of the Dublin Core license term, which is how rights was being promoted since it was first recommended for use in Darwin Core.. |
| Date | 2014-11-06 |