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FormattedText Text formatting (italics, bold, super/subscript) and other publishing artifacts Problem First an apology: I (Gregor Hagedorn) was the main proponent ...

ObsoleteTopicProxyDataModel (This is part of the SchemaDiscussion discussion. See also InterfaceDiscussion. The name for the section contain Agent, Publication, etc ...

UBIF Wiki UBIF currently is out of sync with the recent schema versions (UBIF still forms a core and foundation for the ongoing BDI.SDD development). However ...

ProxyDataSpecimen This is about representing specimens / ABCD units / objects in non biological museums like musical instruments or archeology items when they are ...

SchemaDiscussion I propose the following features, please discuss specifics under the following topics: TopLevelStructure DerivationHistory ContentMetadata ...

UBIFDesignRequirements General requirements ... something should be added here, currently only technical requirements and problems with that are discussed below! ...

SemiControlledEnumeratedValues Many UBIF features are controlled through enumerated values (i.e. a controlled vocabulary). Enumerated values are used in two cases ...

DerivationHistory (This is a subtopic of SchemaDiscussion) 1. The BDI.SDD version discussed in Berlin had DataSets/DataSet/TransformationHistory/Transformation ...

ContentMetadataSearchingName Whereas derivations record the online generation/transformations actions of providers and portals (see DerivationHistory), another element ...

ClosedTopicTopLevelStructureDiscussions (This was moved from SchemaDiscussion) Following from the meeting in Berlin, here is my attempt to document what we are trying ...

DesignPrinciples XML schema design principles This document is intended for xml experts. This Wiki page has been created for ongoing disussions. Considerably more ...

DesignWith2NamespacesDoesNotValidate To produce a common schema for SchemaDiscussion BDI.SDD tries to split the functionality into a common schema and into specific ...

ResolvedTopicDatasetCapitalization Rather an esthetic issue: I find DataSets/DataSet odd looking. I realize that you can write "data set" or "dataset". Googling "dataset ...

ResolvedTopicAttributesLowerOrUpperCase Currently in BDI and ABCD the element names are capitalized to allow running multiple words together in a readable way (e. ...

ResolvedTopicCommonSchemaSearchingName BDI, ABCD, TaxonNames attempt to standardize a number of fundamental principles and make this a shared schema module (imported ...

ProxyDataPublicationMODS The following is a fully expanded xml schema diagram showing all elements of MODS (Version 3.0 December 5, 2003). Many elements carry rich ...

ProxyDataPublicationNotesOnLinnCoreSimpleCitation This refers to the structure proposed by Jerry Cooper in his first draft of LinneanCore (a proposed standard for ...

GloballyUniqueIDs (Note: this is written fast please correct the statements if you think they are inaccurate) Shirley Cohen asked by mail: "I heard that BDI was ...

ExtendLanguageWithNeutralAndUnknown Previous versions of this topic discussed whether it would be appropriate to add special values to the xml language type to deal ...

ProxyDataPublication I propose to use the PublicationProxy type derived from the ProxyBaseType as an example to evaluate the proxy architecture proposed for BDI (see ...

ProxyDataMediaResource About Proxy Objects, this seems a fine concept for taxonomic names etc. However, I wonder what the practical implications are for using images ...

LinneanCoreDefinitions These are some definitions proposed for use in further discussion. Note that the word "name" is not on this list without some sort of qualification ...

IdentificationCertaintyEnum Identifications of an object/specimen/unit as belonging to a class concept may be uncertain. This is especially important in biology, where ...

NomenclaturalTypeStatusOfSpecimensEnum The following is based on the information contained in the UBIF schema (UBIF EnumLib.xsd). Please note, that substantial discussion ...

EnumeratedValues Introductory material Please see also: EnumeratedValuesAndOwl (relationship between xml schema and OWL based vocabularies) SemiControlledEnumeratedValues ...

EnumeratedValuesAndOwl Certain enumerations are considered necessary to provide for data integration and application interoperability. There is some competition in ...

CanonicalURI Both in a GBIF network and in document centric data Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) are required for many purposes. URI/IRIs are globally unique identifiers ...

RevisionStatusEnum See enumeration info for a tabular overview of values. Revision Status may be applied to the entire data collection as well as to individual objects ...

LinneanCoreExampleNames (Here we can add examples of names at all levels, from all the kingdoms, so that we can try and place them into the proposed schemas and see ...

InterfaceDiscussion One way to view the proxy model is to view them as interfaces to more complex data models. Whether a complex xml model exists (ABCD, TCS, SDD, ...

NameForProxyOrInterfaceSection At the SDD meeting in Christchurch we discussed possible names for the section containing proxy objects (with minimal Label/Link or ...

AgentDataModel New resources: Relevant internet sources are: xNAL Name and Address Standard (xNL, xAL) (http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html) http://www.jabber.org ...

GuidLinking This topic collects some comments on the "Link" part of the UBIF ObsoleteTopicProxyDataModel. 1. DOI I was thinking that the DOI as proposed for UBIF Link ...

TopLevelStructure (An older discussion was moved to ClosedTopicTopLevelStructureDiscussions, because most of the structures referred there do not correspond with the ...

LinkingRelEnum It is desirable to express some semantics of the Link href in another attribute "rel". In the current first version of UBIF, the list of values for ...

UriAndUrnAndTag See UriAndUrnAndUrl for the context of this topic. The of the proposed http://www.taguri.org tag URI scheme does, in fact, provide only for a mail ...

KeywordBasedDataExchange (Gregor Hagedorn: I moved this out from ObjectOntology (to which it is related, but I believe this has a different approach). Please rename ...

ObjectOntology This topic is about attempting to subdivide the totality of biodiversity informatics into separate knowledge domains, for which object types may be ...

DataModelMatrix At the TDWG meeting 2004 in Christchurch we had presentations of simple "core" standards: DarwinCore (S. Blum al.), LinneanCore (Jerry Cooper ...

ObjectIdentifierPattern Note March 2005: Although the proposed solutions may not be ideal, there have been no comments on this since December 2004. I therefore plan ...

WhatIsNotConstrained Due to one or another weakness of any particular schema language, some desired constraints are merely left to be expressed in annotation. In a ...

BestPractices I put this in UBIF for want of a better place, but it is cross cutting. TDWG needs to develop some Best Practices for schema definition to promote ease ...

LinneanCoreMultipleStructuresForNames In discussion on the mailing list, RichardPyle expressed the desire that the Name element in a Taxon Concept that has type "Nominal ...

LinneanCoreUseCases LinneanCoreUseCasesGregor LinneanCoreUseCasesOnlineFloraFauna LinneanCoreUseCasesAMNH LinneanCoreUseCases... (your name here!) ...

LCCanonicalNameDiscussion016 Marc Geoffrey and I had a excellent in person discussion and studied the BGBM "Berlin Model". I have remodeled our name atomization approach ...

LinneanCoreCanonicalName Description of the type in the xml schema: "The name of a scientific organism under the various codes of nomenclature, normalized as much ...

LCCanonicalAuthorshipDiscussion014 1 Probably an oversight: CanonicalAuthorship itself probably should not have the AuthorRelationship attribute on it, which is also ...

LCMonomialDiscussion Is it "Monomial" or "Mononomial"? Gregor: According to Encycl. Brittanica: "monomials, which are the terms of the polynomial" usage there however ...

LinneanCoreTCSRelationshipTypes I am aware that the proposed LCNameCreationTypeDiscussion and LinneanCoreNomenclaturalStatus each cover some part of what in TCS 0 ...