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, José Cuadra, Chris Freeland, Gregor Hagedorn, Patrick Leary, Dimitry Mozzherin, Annette Olson, Greg Riccardi, Ivan Teage

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Part of TDWG Standard: TBD

This is a normative document.

An Audubon Core (AC) record is a description, using the Audubon Core vocabularies, of a multimedia resource. Two kinds of terms are specified by this document: record-level terms and access-level terms. Terms under the Record-level Terms section apply to the whole Audubon Core record regardless of the record type. Almost all terms are record-level terms. One such term, serviceAccessPoint plays a special role in helping to retrieve the resource that the record describes. A multimedia resource may have more than one serviceAccessPoint, each of which is described by values of one or more access-level terms, telling such things as a web address at which the resource from which a digital representation of the resource can be retrieved, the size of such a retrieved object, etc.

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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 an 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:, and the TDWG Ontologies Natural History Collection class (NCD, ncd:). Hypertext links in the term table entries will bring the reader to appropriate documentation of those organizations.

Namespaces, Prefixes and Term Names

The namespace of terms borrowed from other vocabularies is that of the original. The namespace of denovo AC terms is http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/. In the table of terms, each term entry has a row with the term name. Following the practice of the Darwin Core term list, for borrowed terms this term name is generally an "unqualified name" preceded by a widely accepted prefix designating an abbreviation for the namespace, whereas for denovo AC terms, no such prefix is prepended. It is recommended that implementors who need a namespace prefix for the AC namespace use "ac" wherever feasible.

Term Index By Name

(See also Index By Label)

Management Vocabulary

| dcterms:identifier| | dcterms:type| | subtype| | dcterms:title| | dcterms:modified| | xmp:MetadataDate| | metadataLanguage| | providerManagedID| | xmp:Rating| | comments| | reviewer| | reviewerComments| | dcterms:available|

Attribution Vocabulary

| dcterms:rights| | xmpRights:Owner| | xmpRights:UsageTerms| | xmpRights:WebStatement| | licenseLogoURL| | Iptc4xmpExt:CreditLine| | attributionLogoURL| | attributionLinkURL| | dcterms:source|

Agents Vocabulary

| dcterms:creator| | provider| | metadataProvider| | metadataCreator|

Content Coverage Vocabulary

| dcterms:description| | caption| | dcterms:language|

Geography Vocabulary

| Iptc4xmpExt:LocationShown| | Iptc4xmpExt:WorldRegion| | Iptc4xmpExt:CountryCode| | Iptc4xmpExt:CountryName| | Iptc4xmpExt:ProvinceState| | Iptc4xmpExt:City| | Iptc4xmpExt:Sublocation|

Temporal Coverage Vocabulary

| dcterms:temporal| | xmp:CreateDate| | timeOfDay|

Subject of Resource Vocabulary

| physicalSetting| | Iptc4xmpExt:CVterm| | subjectCategoryVocabulary| | tag|

Taxonomic Coverage Vocabulary

| ncd:taxonCoverage| | dwc:scientificName| | dwc:identificationQualifier| | dwc:vernacularName| | dwc:nameAccordingTo| | dwc:scientificNameID| | scientificNameSynonym| | dwc:identifiedBy| | dwc:dateIdentified| | taxonCount| | subjectPart| | dwc:sex| | dwc:lifeStage| | subjectOrientation|

Resource Creation Vocabulary

| Iptc4xmpExt:LocationCreated| | digitizationDate| | captureDevice| | resourceCreationTechnique|

Service Access Point Vocabulary

| accessPoint|

Service Access Point Properties

| accessURI| | dcterms:format| | variant| | dcterms:extent| | furtherInformationURL| | licensingException| | serviceExpectation| | variantDescription|

Related Resources Vocabulary

| IDofContainingCollection| | relatedResourceID| | providerID| | derivedFrom| | associatedSpecimenReference| | associatedObservationReference|

Term Index By Label

Management Vocabulary

| Identifier| | Type| | Subtype| | Title| | Modified| | Metadata Date| | Metadata Language| | Provider-managed ID| | Rating| | Comments| | Reviewer| | Reviewer Comments| | Date Available|

Attribution Vocabulary

| Copyright Statement| | Copyright Owner| | License Terms| | License URL| | License Logo URL| | Attribution Statement| | Attribution URL| | Attribution Link URL| | Published Source|

Agents Vocabulary

| Creator| | Provider| | Metadata Provider| | Metadata Creator|

Content Coverage Vocabulary

| Description| | Caption| | Language|

Geography Vocabulary

| Location Shown| | World Region| | Country Code| | Country Name| | Province or State| | City or Place Name| | Sublocation|

Temporal Coverage Vocabulary

| Temporal Coverage| | Original Date and Time| | Time of Day|

Subject of Resource Vocabulary

| Physical Setting| | Subject Category| | Subject Category Vocabulary| | Tag|

Taxonomic Coverage Vocabulary

| Taxon Coverage| | Taxon Name| | Identification Qualifier| | Common Name| | Name According To| | Scientific Name ID| | Scientific Name Synonym| | Identified By| | Date Identified| | Taxon Count| | Subject Part| | Subject Sex| | Subject Life Stage| | Subject Orientation|

Resource Creation Vocabulary

| Location Created| | Date and Time Digitized| | Capture Device| | Resource Creation Technique|

Service Access Point Vocabulary

ServiceAccessPoint Class

| Service Access Point|

Service Access Point Properties

| Access URI| | Format| | Variant| | Extent| | Further Information URL| | Licensing Exception Statement| | Service Expectation| | Variant Description|

Related Resources Vocabulary

| ID of Containing Collection| | Related Resource ID| | Provider ID| | Derived From| | Associated Specimen Reference| | Associated Observation Reference|

(See also Index By Name)

Record-level Terms

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, Location Shown should exclusively refer to the location where a specimen was originally collected (gathering or sampling location). Use Location Created to express the location where the media was created (a specimen was digitized).

All geography terms from the DarwinCore version of 9 Dec 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 Created. The latter is in the Resource Creation Vocabulary. Template:MRTG SectionHeader Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG TermNoComments2 Template:MRTG SectionFooter

Access-level Terms

Access-level Service Access Point Vocabulary

These terms should be applied to a Service Access Point , not to the resource defined by the dcterms:identifier Template:MRTG SectionHeader

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