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RecordLevelTerms

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Updated Apr 11, 2012 by gtuco.bt...@gmail.com

Quick Reference: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#dcindex

dcterms:language
basisOfRecord

dcterms:language

Quick Reference: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#dcterms:language

As of 2012-04-11, the Dublin Core metadata Initiative recommends the use of a controlled vocabulary such as RFC 4646. For Darwin Core, the latest RFC for ISO 639-1 is the recommended version (RFC 5646 as of 2012-04-11).

Further documentation on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) language codes can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag.

A list of language codes can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes.

basisOfRecord

Quick Reference: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#basisOfRecord

The basisOfRecord is meant to express the category of the source of information in a record. It is more specific than the dcterms:type term, which expresses the Dublin Core resource type (PhysicalObject, Event, StillImage, MovingImage, Sound, etc.) of a record. The values listed here are string literal versions of the formal Darwin Core Type Vocabulary (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm) that can be represented by URIs, which should be used when appropriate, such as in RDF. For example, use

<dwc:basisOfRecord rdf:resource="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwctype/PreservedSpecimen"/>

rather than

<dwc:basisOfRecord>PreservedSpecimen</dwc:basisOfRecord>

(where xmlns:dwc="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/").

The recommended basisOfRecord controlled vocabulary includes:

Term	Definition
Occurrence	A resource describing an instance of the Occurrence class.
Event	A non-persistent, time-based occurrence. For Darwin Core, a resource describing an instance of the Event class.
Location	A resource describing an instance of the Location class.
Taxon	A resource describing an instance of the Taxon class.
PreservedSpecimen	A resource describing a preserved specimen.
FossilSpecimen	A resource describing a fossilized specimen.
LivingSpecimen	A resource describing a living specimen.
HumanObservation	A resource describing an observation made by one or more people.
MachineObservation	A resource describing an observation made by a machine.
NomenclaturalChecklist	A resource describing a nomenclatural checklist.

See also the Type Vocabulary Terms page.

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