This document provides access to the parts and history of this vocabulary. A TDWG vocabulary is composed of term lists that have been minted by TDWG as part of this vocabulary, or that may be composed of terms borrowed from other vocabularies within or outisde of TDWG. The vocabulary changes over time as those lists change, or as new term lists are added to the vocabulary. These changes are documented by versions of the vocabulary, which are "snapshots" of the vocabulary at the time that the version was issued.
For more information about the structure and version model of TDWG vocabularies, see the TDWG Standards Documentation Specification.
To examine specific historical versions of this vocabulary, click on one of the links below.
This vocabulary is available in the formats or distribution methods listed in the table below. Please note that distribution access URLs may be subject to change over time. Therefore, it is preferable to request the abstract IRI of the resources and request the desired Content-type through content negotiation.
Description | IRI | Access URL |
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HTML file (this document) | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.htm | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.htm |
RDF/Turtle | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.ttl | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.ttl |
RDF/XML | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.rdf | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.rdf |
JSON-LD | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.json | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc.json |
Label: | Darwin Core terms borrowed from the Dublin Core legacy namespace |
List IRI: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dc/ |
Modified: | 2023-06-28 |
Description: | This list includes terms borrowed by Darwin Core from the legacy (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/) Dublin Core namespace |
Label: | Darwin Core terms borrowed from the Dublin Core terms namespace |
List IRI: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dcterms/ |
Modified: | 2023-09-18 |
Description: | This list includes terms borrowed by Darwin Core from the terms (http://purl.org/dc/terms/) Dublin Core namespace |
Label: | Darwin Core IRI-value Term Analogs |
List IRI: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/ |
Modified: | 2023-09-13 |
Description: | The terms on this list are intended to be used with IRI values |
Label: | Core terms defined by Darwin Core |
List IRI: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ |
Modified: | 2023-09-18 |
Description: | This term list includes all currently valid terms that have been defined in the core Darwin Core namespace dwc:. To comment on this schema, please create a new issue in https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues |