15521
Reporter: trobertson
Assignee: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: Downloads use DwC terms that don't exist
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Resolved
Created: 2014-04-13 19:28:31.397
Updated: 2014-04-15 14:46:27.343
Resolved: 2014-04-15 14:46:27.319
Description: For example
This does not exist in DwC: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
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Author: fmendez@gbif.org
Created: 2014-04-14 09:18:26.751
Updated: 2014-04-14 09:18:26.751
The issue with that term is that it is not ratified yet:
public enum DwTerm {
....
genericName(DwcTerm.GROUP_TAXON), // not yet ratified !!!
....
}
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-04-14 09:55:56.127
Updated: 2014-04-14 09:55:56.127
That was a deliberate choice. It is an open issue in darwin core:
https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=227
I am not aware of any objections against this term and it is already in use by the Catalog of Life download dwca format.
Author: trobertson@gbif.org
Created: 2014-04-14 10:15:10.191
Updated: 2014-04-14 10:15:10.191
Surely just adding terms to namespaces is just plain wrong? Shouldn't we add it in a GBIF namespace until it is in DwC?
I'd be very suspicious of anyone inventing terms in well-governed namespaces that don't exist.
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: Might be safer, sure. CoL does use the DwC namespace though as it seems pretty much agreed upon already. No harm in moving the term from the DwCTerm to GbifTerm though
Created: 2014-04-14 10:22:28.161
Updated: 2014-04-14 10:22:28.161
Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: agreed during scrum that we'll use the gbifterm approach, but it's not a blocker for immediate release - must be done before v1.0 of api
Created: 2014-04-14 11:03:31.03
Updated: 2014-04-14 11:03:31.03
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: The term dwc:typifiedName will also be moved to the gbif namespace as it is also just proposed, but not yet ratified
Created: 2014-04-15 10:37:57.336
Updated: 2014-04-15 10:37:57.336