TDWG Specimen LSID Ontology Roger Hyam TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards 2007-01-30 $Date: 2007-08-15 15:05:50 +0200 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) $ Ontology describing the metadata returned for LSIDs that are used for specimen records. 0.2 - [SVN $Rev: 1294 $] *** This vocabulary has been superseded by the TaxonOccurrence vocabulary (http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonOccurrence) Read more about this on the associated wiki page.**** http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc This ontology is designed to represent records of specimens. Note that it contains informations specific to the specimen. Data about the occurrence of a taxon in the wild that this specimen was taken from should be given in a OccurrenceRecord object in the voucherFor property. Specimen A biological specimen. Is Voucher For This specimen is a voucher for another record of some kind e.g. an OccurrenceRecord Derived From This Specimen has been derived from another occurrence record following some procedure that may be documented by the procedure property. Procedure The procedure followed that generated this object perhaps by derivation from another specimen. Procedure Descriptor A string description of the procedure employed in generating this specimen. This may be interpreted in combination with and qualifying the procedure property. Collector The name(s) of the collector(s) of the specimen. These may be normalised out in the collectorTeam property. Core:Collector Collector Team A breakdown of the collectors of the specimen. An expansion of the information given in the collector property. Collectors Field Number The identifier issued for the specimen by the collector at the time of collection. CuratorialExtension:CollectorNumber CollectorsFieldNumber Collector's Batch Number An identifying string applied to a set of objects or observations resulting from a single collecting event. CuratorialExtension:FieldNumber CollectorsFieldNumber kindOfSpecimen The kind of object this specimen is e.g. herbarium, fossil, living, moving image, sound recording etc. This property may be repeated, for example a specimen may be a herbarium specimen and also a moss packet. In addition to indicating the specimen kind with this flag implementers may choose to subclass Specimen. It is recommended that even if the Specimen class is subclassed and specialised kinds of specimens added to the vocabulary the same basic KindOfSpecimen terms are always included to enable naive clients to interpret the object. A graphical client may have a small number of icons to display next to well known specimen types for example. Core:BasisOfRecord - but note that this is only for kinds of physical voucher object not observations. BasisOfRecord and KindOfUnit but note that this is only for kinds of physical voucher object not observations. kindOfSpecimenString This is a human readable account of the kind of specimen given by the kindOfSpecimen property. It allows for use of descriptive terms that may not be available from a controlled vocabulary. Wherever possible the kindOfSpecimen should be used as well as this property. Core:BasisOfRecord - but note that this is only for kinds of physical voucher object not observations. BasisOfRecord and KindOfUnit but note that this is only for kinds of physical voucher object not observations. Host Collection A link to the collection that hosts this specimen. The collection will contain details of the collection code and host institution/organisation. Host Collection String A string representation of the collection hosting this specimen. May include the collection and institution codes. May be normalised in the hostCollection property. Core:InstitutionCode and Core:CollectionCode SourceInstitutionID Specimen ID The identifier used for this specimen within the scope of the collection. e.g. catalogue number. This should be the preferred identifier. Alternative identifiers, such as barcodes, can be given using the dc:identifier property. CatalogNumber UnitID Verbatim Label Text The text as it occurs on the label of the specimen. Digital Representation A link to a digital representation of this specimen. e.g. an image of the herbarium specimen. If the specimen is an actual digital object (such as a sound recording) and available via the getData() call of the LSID then this property could be ambiguous in which case the following procedure should be followed. If the LSID getData() call maps to an HTTP GET call on a stable URI then that URI could be included here. This would enable non LSID aware clients to access the data. If the getData() call does not map in this way then this property should be omitted. If there are alternative digital representations of the object available (e.g. a sound recording in another format) then the DublinCore::hasFormat property should be used. Type Status String A list of one or more nomenclatural types (including type status and typified taxonomic name) represented by the object. Example: "holotype of Ctenomys sociabilis. Pearson O. P., and M. I. Christie. 1985. Historia Natural, 5(37):388" Curatorial::TypeStatus Type Status String The type of type specimen this specimen is. Curatorial::TypeStatus - but as a controlled vocabulary rather than a string. Type For Name A name for which this specimen is a type. Disposition The current disposition of the cataloged item. Examples: "in collection", "missing", "voucher elsewhere", "duplicates elsewhere". Curatorial::Disposition Individual Count The number of individuals present in the lot or container. Not to be used for observations - see OccurrenceRecord/value property. Curatorial::IndividualCount Verbatim Coordinates A text representation of the coordinate data (Latitude/ Longitude, UTM, TRS, etc.) from its original source if it cannot be separated into its component parts. Example: "470999 1234300". Geospatial:VerbatimCoordinates Verbatim Latitude A text representation of the Latitude part of the coordinate data from its original source. Example: 47d09'99"N Geospatial:VerbatimLatitude Verbatim Longitude A text representation of the Longitude part of the coordinate data from its original source. Example: -122.43254 Geospatial:VerbatimLongitude Verbatim Coordinate System The name of the system in which the verbatim geographic coordinates were recorded. Examples: "decimal degrees", "degrees minutes seconds", "degrees decimal minutes", "UTM" Geospatial:VerbatimCoordinateSystem Verbatim Collecting Date The verbatim original representation of the date (and time) information for the collecting event as recorded on the specimen or collection catalogue Example: "spring 1910" Curatorial:VerbatimCollectingDate Verbatim Elevation A text representation of the altitude in its original format as on the specimen or in the collection catalogue. Example: "1000+- meters". Curatorial:VerbatimElevation Verbatim Depth A text representation of the depth in its original format on the specimen or in the collection catalogue. Example: "100 to 200 ft below sea level". Curatorial:VerbatimDepth Field Notes The text representation of field notes associated with the specimen or a link to those field notes. Curatorial:fieldNotes Life Stage The age class or life stage of the biological individual represented by the catalogued object. Examples: "adult", "mature", "juvenile", "eft", "nymph", "seedling", "seed", "egg" Core:LifeStage Sex The sex of the biological individual represented by the catalogued object. Examples: "male", "female", "hermaphrodite", "gynandromorph", "monoecious", "dioecious", "not recorded", "indeterminate", "transitional" Core:Sex Kind Of Specimen Term The different kinds of Specimen. An object used to represent the different types of specimen. Preserved Specimen Preserved Specimen Specimen that has been preserved in some way and is intended to persist indefinitely. Typically a preserved specimen is also dead although this may not be the case with freeze dried mycological collections for example. Living Specimen Living Specimen The specimen is alive and can be expected to change either through growth, reproduction and/or death. Still Image Still Image The specimen is a picture of some kind. It may be on a physical medium or it may be digital. Moving Image Moving Image The specimen is a moving picture of some kind. It may be on a physical medium or it may be digital. Illustration Specimen Illustration Specimen The specimen is an image originally created by human hand e.g. a drawing, painting, etching etc. Digital Specimen Digital Specimen The specimen is a digital object not a physical object. Fossil Specimen Fossil Specimen The specimen is fossilised.