Element Description: Basis of Record

A descriptive term indicating whether the record represents an object or observation. Examples:
PreservedSpecimen- A physical object representing one or more organisms, part of organism, or artifact of an organism. synonyms: voucher, collection, lot.
FossilSpecimen- A physical object representing one or more fossil organisms, part of fossil organism, or artifact of a fossil organism.
LivingSpecimen- An organism removed from its natural occurrence and now living in captivity or cultivation.
HumanObservation- A report by a known observer that an organism was present at the place and time.
MachineObservation- A report by a monitoring device that an organism was present at the place and time.
StillImage- An photograph, drawing, painting.
MovingImage- A sequence of still images taken at regular intervals and intended to be played back as a moving image; may include sound.
SoundRecording- An audio recording.
OtherSpecimen- Any type of specimen not covered by any of the categories above.

Comments

Use the space below to make comments about this page. -- StephenLong - 24 Aug 2006

What about seed and other germoplasm collections? Are they PreservedSpecimen, LivingSpecimen or OtherSpecimen? I think these kind of collections deserve a category of its own -- PacoPando - 1 Jun 2007

Germplasm collections of genetic resources conserved in ex situ genebanks would be LivingSpecimens. These "specimen" are usually called accessions inside this thematic community and are of high economic value, but could still be classified adequately as LivingSpecimens...? -- DagEndresen - 01 Jun 2007

As a user I much prefer to be able to tell apart living animals and plants from seeds and other germplasm collections; if multimedia records are separate in three categories, I do not see why germplasm collections cannot be separated. Besides, in previous -simple- versions of DwC? this was one of the valid concepts -- PacoPando - 1 Jun 2007

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