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Specimen Facade

This page describes the needs for specimen part to be implemented during the specimen/eFlora sprint.

See #1671 for the WP6 requirements.

Field name Example 1 Example 2 Diptera Specimen Facade
Location content type
country Germany Italy "Country" set of named areas (TODO seperate for countries, TDWG areas, ...?)
TDWG unit (state province) "State province" see above, TODO
locality Berlin-Dahlem, E side of Englerallee Tuscany, … "Locality" MultiLanguageString locality
Altitude (range) 40 m - " Minimum elevation in meters", " Maximum elevation in meters" !AbsoluteElevation + AbsoluteElevationError; a range is entered as the average and the error must be half the distance of the range - transformation methods exist in the facade but the range distance must be even to work properly
coordinates latitude (as cache in Point?) 45°45" N "Latitude" exactLocation (2 dimensional Point, error radius, referenceSystem); TODO transformation into degree, minutes, seconds
coordinates longitude 35°45" E " Longitude" see above
coordinates source (method) / accuracy (unschärfe), geographic datum(?) Google Earth "Georeference Protocol", " Coordinate uncertainty in meters" see above
Specimen content type
- "Basis of record" TODO
habitat, ecological data (only field notes) sand dunes " Field notes" !MultiLanguageString Ecology
collection date 38477 " Earliest date collected", " Latest date collected" gathering period (!TimePeriod)
collector(s) and collection number Kilian 5678, Müller & Kohlbecker Kilian, Müller & Kohlbecker 6789 " Collector", "Collector number" !AgentBase Collector + String CollectorNumber (new field AgentBase fieldNumberActor ??)
Exsiccatum & exs. Number (??) Greuter, Pl. Dahlem. 456 String exsiccatum (not yet in model !!); also ABCD has as string; for a structured modelling see Diversity Collection
Herbarium (All institution data) & accession number B 8909756 WU " Institution code", " Collection code", " Catalogue number text", Collection(code, codeStandard, name, townOrLocation, Institution institute, Collection superCollection), accesionNumber, catalogNumber, collectorsNumber
notes on plant (morphology, phenology etc.) unklar wo das ins Model soll, wenn es nicht strukturiert vorliegt flowers blue tree, height 7 m " Remarks" !MultiLanguageString PlantDescription
Determination /Taxon (mehrfach notwendig ??) det. Meyer " Identified by", " Date identified, Year" (separately: month, day) set of determination events(taxon, isPreferred, references, AgentBase determinator, timeperiod, description)
literature source (multiple??) Kilian (1999) Original sources
links to images field object media + specimen media
Duplicates duplicate specimen set (sharing the same last derivation event)
" Type Status" not implemented in specimen facade but in type modul
" Identification qualifier/modifier" modifier in determination event
Sex "Sex" Sex sex
Life Stage " Life stage" Stage lifeStage
Individual count " Individual count" individual count (further refinement needed for separating sex and stages ?)
"Genbank number" TODO
"Other catalogue numbers" see duplicates
"Field number" see collectors number
Further fields not on Scratchpads
Specimen preparation Preservation Method
Condition of specimen TODO
Dissection TODO
Label data TODO
Further fields available in the specimen facade
Field Object Definition - Multilanguage freetext to describe the field specimen
Specimen Definition - Multilanguage freetext to describe the collection specimen
Distance to Ground
Distance to water surface
Gathering Event description - freetext (not multilanguage) to describe the gathering event
Stored under - the taxon name this specimen is stored under

Favoured output version of the first example would be:

Germany, Berlin-Dahlem, E side of Englerallee, alt. 40 m, 45°45"N, 35°45"E (Google Earth), sand dunes, 05.05.2005, Kilian 5678, Müller & Kohlbecker; Greuter, Pl. Dahlem. 456 (B 8909756); flowers blue.

Notes:

  • Segregates refer to the fields in the table

  • combination of number and collector (exsiccatum, herbarium) is preferred. Otherwise things will be complicated by collection numbers of teams, of individuals in teams etc. (cf. examples 1 and 2)

  • note use of semicolons and brackets, addition of "alt."

Updated by Andreas Müller about 2 years ago · 32 revisions