@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>.
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>.
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>.
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>.
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>.
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>.
@prefix dwc: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/>.
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>.
@prefix tdwgutility: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/attributes/>.
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>.

<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2023-09-13>
     rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/>;
     dcterms:isPartOf <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/>;
     dcterms:issued "2023-09-13"^^xsd:date;
     tdwgutility:status "superseded"^^xsd:string;
     rdfs:label "Material Entity"@en;
     skos:prefLabel "Material Entity"@en;
     rdfs:comment "An entity that can be identified, exists for some period of time, and consists in whole or in part of physical matter while it exists."@en;
     skos:definition "An entity that can be identified, exists for some period of time, and consists in whole or in part of physical matter while it exists."@en;
     dcterms:description "The term is defined at the most general level to admit descriptions of any subtype of material entity within the scope of Darwin Core. In particular, any kind of material sample, preserved specimen, fossil, or exemplar from living collections is intended to be subsumed under this term."@en;
     skos:example "`an instance of a fossil`; `an instance of a herbarium sheet with its attached plant specimen`; `a particular part of the plant-derived material affixed to a herbarium sheet`; `an instance of a frozen tissue sample`; `a specific water sample`; `an instance of a meteorite fragment`; `a particular wolf in a zoo`; `a particular pack of wolves in the wild`; `an isolated molecule of DNA`; `a specific deep-frozen DNA sample`; `a particular field notebook`; `a particular paper page from a field notebook`; `an instance of a printed photograph`"@en;
     rdf:type <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class>;
     tdwgutility:abcdEquivalence "None (Specimen Unit, when used to denote a class of things, appears to be a broadly construed subclass.)";
     tdwgutility:usageScope "simple";
     dcterms:isVersionOf <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialEntity>.

<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2026-05-26>
     dcterms:replaces <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2023-09-13>.

<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2023-09-13>
     dcterms:isReplacedBy <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2026-05-26>.

<http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2023-09-13.ttl>
     dc:format "text/turtle";
     dc:creator "Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)";
     dcterms:references <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MaterialEntity-2023-09-13>;
     dcterms:modified "2026-06-05T02:13:24-03:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
     a foaf:document.