Steve Baskauf

Work on translations to substitute into the quick reference guide

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We should create tables for the basic DwC metadata in various languages that could be substituted into the Quick Reference Guide. It would probably require some changes to the build...

Controlled vocabulary for the occurrenceStatus property

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The term `occurrenceStatus` is undergoing revision in #339 (Note: term also mentioned in #238 but that issue is not directly related to this one). As part of that revision, we...

Implement TDWG-managed version of Dublin Core borrowed terms

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This will eliminate manual editing of Dublin Core data that currently must be done in the rs.tdwg.org repo. See step 10 and 11 in the [build workflow](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/blob/master/build/README.md) from 2021-08-04 offline...

Decommission the RDF "ancillary document" and revise the RDF Guide to include relevant bits

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The DwC RDF Guide makes reference in several places to an "ancillary document" that is currently hosted in the dead RDF Task Group's GitHub repo. Now that the maintenance group...

script updating of header section in list of terms document

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The header.md document used to build the list of terms document has to have the version dates and version in citation info updated manually. This could be done as part...

script updates to List of Terms document metadata

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After the List of Terms document is generated, the metadata for the document versions has to be manually updated in the docs and docs-versions directories of rs.tdwg.org . This needs...

Update XML schemas when there is a term addition

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As part of the update workflow, script updates to ``` tdwg_dwc_simple.xsd tdwg_dwcterms.xsd tdwg_dwc_extensions.xsd ```

umbrella issue related to dwc:basisOfRecord and an Evidence class

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At TDWG 2020, the subject of the need for an Evidence class came up several times. Problems with the term dwc:basisOfRecord were also discussed. It is essentially a bespoke term...

Are software agents legitimate values for xBy terms?

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This question was brought up by @danstowell for the case where a media item was automatically classified to a taxon by an algorithm. In such a case it might be...

Request for advice for the Audubon Core MG about ac:associatedXReference terms

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I think that it would be good as a part of the upcoming discussion of proposals related to #332 #331 #330 #324 and #283 to consider two Audubon Core terms:...