Audubon Core Term List

See Audubon Core for introductory material on the terminology.

Title:' Audubon Core Term List

Date: TBD. This document is a proposal

Abstract: The Audubon Core is a set of vocabularies designed to represent metadata for biodiversity multimedia resources and collections. These vocabularies aim to represent information that will help to determine whether a particular resource or collection will be fit for some particular biodiversity science application before acquiring the media. Among others, the vocabularies address such concerns as the management of the media and collections, descriptions of their content, their taxonomic, geographic, and temporal coverage, and the appropriate ways to retrieve, attribute and reproduce them. This document contains a list of attributes of each Audubon Core term, including a documentation name, a specified URI, a recommended English label for user interfaces, a definition, and some ancillary commentary.

Contributors: Robert A. Morris, Vijay Barve, Mihail Carausu, Vishwas Chavan, Jose Cuarda, Chris Freeland, Gregor Hagedorn, Patrick Leary, Dimitry Mozzherin, Annette Olson, Greg Riccardi, Ivan Teage

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Borrowed Vocabulary

When terms are borrowed from other vocabularies, AC uses the URIs, common abbreviations, and namespace prefixes in use in those vocabularies. The URIs are normative, but abbreviations and namespace prefixes have no impact except as aid to reading the documentation. Common such usage for abbreviations and namespace prefixes are Darwin Core (DwC, dwc:), Dublin Core (DC, dcterms:), Adobe XMP (XMP, xmp:), International Press and Telecomunications Council (IPTC, Iptc4xmpExt:). Hypertext links in the term table entries will bring the reader to appropriate documentation of those organizations.

Crosswalks

Crosswalks are opinions as of this writing about the closest term in another vocabulary. The are informative only and subject to more rigorous specification in an appropriate Audubon Core Best Practices document.

Vocabulary Indices

Term Index By Name

(See also Index By Label)

Term Index By Label

(See also Index By Name)

Geography Vocabulary

Location created and Location shown are separated in the current version of IPTC, and the metadata working group (MWG 2010) also recommends this. We will follow this, to support the expected future increase of automatic GPS based coordinate recording in recording devices. As a special case, the AC group recommends to change the semantics of location shown in the case of biodiversity specimens, where the original location may differ from the current location at which the specimen is held in a collection. In this case, LocationShown should exclusively refer to the location where a specimen was originally collected (gathering or sampling location). Use LocationCreated to express the location where the media was created (a specimen was digitized).

All geography terms from the DarwinCore version of 12 09 2009 are deemed included in the Core Layer. Specifically, this includes exactly those which are declared by DarwinCore to be in DarwinCore Class Location. Note that dwc:locality may be used, but as applied to media this term may be ambiguous as to whether it applies to the location depicted or the location at which the media was created. When disambiguating information is available, it is better to use the terms Location Shown and Location Acquired

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