Abby Benson

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> doubtful: "The taxon is scored as being present in the area but there is some doubt over the evidence." For me, this seems to be conflating data and annotations...

I have to agree with @deepreef here. I disagree that the definitions of the terms are the only thing that matters. If you look at the terms that are included...

I'll attempt to describe a use case I see for this. A regular survey cruise is conducted every spring. It uses a trawl method. On a particular day at a...

@deepreef > In my mind, an Occurrence instance unambiguously represents the same Organism at an Event (= place and time), Then what is the purpose of `individualCount`? In my mind...

I believe this would also resolve an OBIS issue in wanting to identify the type of event and previously using `type` https://github.com/iobis/obis-issues/issues/172 @[wardappeltans](https://github.com/wardappeltans), @[pieterprovoost](https://github.com/pieterprovoost), @[bart-v](https://github.com/bart-v)

I don't see the need for an "event span". The event span could be determined based on the first and last eventDate in the dataset.

> I agree with @qgroom: There is definitely a need for eventDate to accommodate a range (span). `eventDate` already accommodates a range. I think my concern is with the language...

So eDNA are `MaterialSamples` and not `Occurrences`? Is it both? When is something not an occurrence? Because eDNA have `associatedSequences` and isn't all of this wrapped up in the [occurrence...

> We are considering including all derived taxonomic IDs and genetic sequences under a single catalog number, as having all been derived from the same occurrence (water sample, soil sample)....