Darwin Core basis of record

ID dwc_basis_of_record

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Value of the Darwin Core term basisOfRecord, the kind of evidence behind a biodiversity occurrence record: the name of a Darwin Core class such as PreservedSpecimen, FossilSpecimen, LivingSpecimen, MaterialSample, HumanObservation, MachineObservation or Occurrence. GBIF downloads write the same values in upper case with underscores (PRESERVED_SPECIMEN).

Parent datatype: Category category
Categories: Scientific
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^(?:PreservedSpecimen|FossilSpecimen|LivingSpecimen|MaterialSample|MaterialEntity|MaterialCitation|HumanObservation|MachineObservation|Occurrence|Event|Taxon|PRESERVED_SPECIMEN|FOSSIL_SPECIMEN|LIVING_SPECIMEN|MATERIAL_SAMPLE|MATERIAL_CITATION|HUMAN_OBSERVATION|MACHINE_OBSERVATION|OBSERVATION|OCCURRENCE|LITERATURE|UNKNOWN)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
PreservedSpecimen	Herbarium specimen
HumanObservation	Observation by a person
PRESERVED_SPECIMEN	GBIF form
Specimen invalid

Sources

doc: https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Core

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