Taxon and Identification Webinar - Darwin Core Hour Input Form 1/31/2018 11:06:30

[iDigBioBot]

A user submitted this information via the Darwin Core Hour webform:
Timestamp: 1/31/2018 11:06:30
Please provide a topic of interest: Webinar on Taxon and Identification
Are you capable of and interested in participating: No
Who else would you recommend to participate in the presentation: Richard Pyle, Markus Döring
What resources can you point to: Sadly, no good public explanation comest to mind
Your name: John Wieczorek
Your email: gtuco.btuco@gmail.com
Your GitHub username: tucotuco

[tucotuco]

I'll reach out to Rich and Markus to see if they would be willing to participate in a webinar on Taxon and Identification terms in Darwin Core. It could include standing proposals for new terms and term changes.

[tucotuco]

If there is time enough for it, it might be good to address the issue of checklists. Why would anyone create one? Why not caste checklists as Occurrences? That way you get all the benefits of time and place that Occurrences carry, without relegating that information only to metadata or an extension. There is not proscription for time and place to be very specific in Occurrence records, so what really is the advantage of using a checklist. Or, radically thinking, why not base checklists on the Occurrence core, that way they would be easily identifiable as such in the Occurrence data realm?

[dagendresen]

One purpose/use case for a taxon checklist could be to declare a list of taxa that sampling event monitoring activities/datasets look for and where "missing" taxon data points for each event/locality/station are intended to be interpreted as "absence points".

Eg. Radiolaria checklist for species known by expert knowledge to be occurring in northern (Norwegian) waters: https://doi.org/10.15468/rf5geo and the corresponding Radiolaria event-core occurrences: https://doi.org/10.15468/ruw305

However, Taxon checklists might be a different topic than taxon identification history...