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Darwin Core Terms

The Darwin Core is body of standards. It includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing reference definitions, examples, and commentaries. The Darwin Core is primarily based on taxa, their occurrence in nature as documented by observations, specimens, and samples, and related information.

Included are documents describing how these terms are managed, how the set of terms can be extended for new purposes, and how the terms can be used. The Simple Darwin Core [SIMPLEDWC] is a specification for one particular way to use the terms - to share data about taxa and their occurrences in a simply structured way - and is probably what is meant if someone suggests to "format your data according to the Darwin Core".

Darwin Core is published by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) from the http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ namespace.

Record-level Terms [1]

dcterms:accessRights | dcterms:bibliographicCitation | dcterms:language | dcterms:modified | dcterms:references | dcterms:rights | dcterms:rightsHolder | dcterms:type |

basisOfRecord | collectionCode | collectionID | dataGeneralizations | datasetID | datasetName | dynamicProperties | informationWithheld | institutionCode | institutionID | ownerInstitutionCode

Occurrence (dwc:Occurrence) [2]

associatedMedia | associatedOccurrences | associatedReferences | associatedSequences | associatedTaxa | behavior | catalogNumber | disposition | establishmentMeans | individualCount | individualID | lifeStage | occurrenceID | occurrenceRemarks | occurrenceStatus | otherCatalogNumbers | preparations | previousIdentifications | recordedBy | recordNumber | reproductiveCondition | sex

Event (dwc:Event) [3]

day | endDayOfYear | eventDate | eventID | eventRemarks | eventTime | fieldNotes | fieldNumber | habitat | month | samplingEffort | samplingProtocol | startDayOfYear | verbatimEventDate | year

dcterms:Location [4]

continent | coordinatePrecision | coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | country | countryCode | county | decimalLatitude | decimalLongitude | footprintSpatialFit | footprintSRS | footprintWKT | geodeticDatum | georeferencedBy | georeferencedDate | georeferenceProtocol | georeferenceRemarks | georeferenceSources | georeferenceVerificationStatus | higherGeography | higherGeographyID | island | islandGroup | locality | locationAccordingTo | locationID | locationRemarks | maximumDepthInMeters | maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters | maximumElevationInMeters | minimumDepthInMeters | minimumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters | minimumElevationInMeters | municipality | pointRadiusSpatialFit | stateProvince | verbatimCoordinates | verbatimCoordinateSystem | verbatimDepth | verbatimElevation | verbatimLatitude | verbatimLocality | verbatimLongitude | verbatimSRS | waterBody

GeologicalContext (dwc:GeologicalContext) [5]

bed | earliestAgeOrLowestStage | earliestEonOrLowestEonothem | earliestEpochOrLowestSeries | earliestEraOrLowestErathem | earliestPeriodOrLowestSystem | formation | geologicalContextID | group | highestBiostratigraphicZone | latestAgeOrHighestStage | latestEonOrHighestEonothem | latestEpochOrHighestSeries | latestEraOrHighestErathem | latestPeriodOrHighestSystem | lithostratigraphicTerms | lowestBiostratigraphicZone | member

Identification (dwc:Identification) [6]

dateIdentified | identificationID | identificationQualifier | identificationReferences | identificationRemarks | identificationVerificationStatus | identifiedBy | typeStatus

Taxon (dwc:Taxon) [7]

acceptedNameUsage | acceptedNameUsageID | class | family | genus | higherClassification | infraspecificEpithet | kingdom | nameAccordingTo | nameAccordingToID | namePublishedIn | namePublishedInID | namePublishedInYear | nomenclaturalCode | nomenclaturalStatus | order | originalNameUsage | originalNameUsageID | parentNameUsage | parentNameUsageID | phylum | scientificName | scientificNameAuthorship | scientificNameID | specificEpithet | subgenus | taxonConceptID | taxonID | taxonomicStatus | taxonRank | taxonRemarks | verbatimTaxonRank | vernacularName

Auxiliary Terms

ResourceRelationship (dwc:ResourceRelationship) [8]

relatedResourceID | relationshipAccordingTo | relationshipEstablishedDate | relationshipOfResource | relationshipRemarks | resourceID | resourceRelationshipID

MeasurementOrFact (dwc:MeasurementOrFact) [9]

measurementAccuracy | measurementDeterminedBy | measurementDeterminedDate | measurementID | measurementMethod | measurementRemarks | measurementType | measurementUnit | measurementValue

Import/Export RDF

• Import URI identifiers for the Darwin Core terms
• Export RDF description for this Vocabulary
• Export an RDF overview list of Darwin Core Terms
• Export an RDF overview list of all Darwin Core Terms and Properties defined here