SpecimenLsidVoc

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This vocabulary has been superseded by the TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc. Read more about it on the TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc page.

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This is a summary of the LSID Vocabulary for Specimen. Read LsidVocs information on LSID Vocabularies in general.

See OccurrenceRecordLsidVoc for a diagram illustrating the relationships between an occurrence and a Specimen. The Avowed schemas and CNS files for OccurrenceRecord? and Specimen are very similar because they embed one another.

Resources

The RDF OWL vocabulary	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Specimen
Example XML Instance	Being developed
Avowed XML Schema	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/tapir/structure/Specimen/Specimen.xsd
TAPIR CNS file	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/tapir/structure/Specimen/Specimen.txt
TAPIR CNS file 2	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/tapir/structure/Specimen/Specimen_basic.txt (a slightly cut down version that is simpler to use for flat table mapping)
Concept Docs	SpecimenLsidVocDoc - documentation for TAPIR style concepts.

Deployments

• not yet!

Discussion

Visiting the first link under Resources above with a modern web browser will display the documentation for the vocabulary. Please read this first. If you then have any discussion points or questions please add them below.

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• Locality

I believe that it is an error to include the geographic-object attributes (coordinates, etc.) as part of the specimen. Many other objects need them as well, especially taxon observations. -- Gregor Hagedorn, 2007-05-03

I don't follow Gregor's objection. OccurrenceRecordLsidVoc indeed has such attributes. But there seem to be two issues: (a). OccurrenceRecordLsidVoc supports both geocoded and named locality, but SpecimenLsidVoc seems to support only the former and (b)even if this is an oversight, there is a data integrity issue if an OccurrenceRecord? and its voucher specimen have different localities. One possible solution is to have a voucher class (generalizing both specimens and e-vouchers) and put the location only on vouchers. This would probably give rise to a need to have a sort of empty voucher that contains little but locality and something representing the source of the voucher (collecter, photographer, publication, ...) -- BobMorris - 27 May 2007

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Linking Topics

• LsidVocs
• LsidVocsDarwinCore
• LsidVocsIndex
• LsidVocsTapir
• OccurrenceRecordLsidVoc
• SpecimenLsidVocDoc
• TaxonOccurrenceLsidVoc
• WebStatistics