Datatypes

Darwin Core occurrence id

ID dwc_occurrence_id

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Identifier of an occurrence record (Darwin Core occurrenceID): a value that the publisher keeps unique and persistent for an observation or a specimen, often the catalog number or a URN or URL built from it.

Parent datatype

Unique identifier id

Categories

Scientific, Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste)

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Quality

60/100 · missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation

Metacrafter rules

1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)

• dwcoccurrenceidbyfield field, common/science.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Examples

Sources

• doc: https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:occurrenceID

Use this record

• Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dwc_occurrence_id
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/science/dwc_occurrence_id.yaml on GitHub