Abby Benson

FAQ: How do I publish absences?

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> Q. How do I publish absence data? A. Step 1: Include sampling event records even if the sampling yielded no derived species occurrences. This allows species absences to be...

Future of requiring basisOfRecord and controlled vocabulary

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[A new recommendation](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/416) has been put forward to modify `basisOfRecord` which (I believe) would result in changes to the controlled vocabulary currently in place for `basisOfRecord` in the IPT. In...

Use of identificationReferences and identificationVerificationStatus for plankton imaging data

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The plankton imaging community in Europe is evaluating the terms `identificationReferences` and `identificationVerificationStatus` for use in identifying the software, version of the software, and machine learning algorithm and if the...

Adding Darwin Core IRI equivalents to the IPT

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[One of the proposals](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/379) in the current Darwin Core Public Review is intended to improve the use of the Darwin Core IRI equivalents. However I don't think the IPT is...

Suggestion for updating the way creative commons licenses are provided via the EML from the IPT

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We have a suggestion from a harvester of one of our IPTs that the standard way to document the use of a license is to provide the URL of the...

Document different tiers of data/metadata needed/wanted

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During our December call, we discussed metadata. OBIS (and GBIF) use EML metadata for their datasets. While extensive metadata is always best, sometimes this can prevent data from being shared...