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Natural Collections Description (NCD) Terms

Natural Collections Description (NCD) is a data standard for describing collections of natural history materials at the collection level; one NCD record describes one entire collection.

Links

• Home page: http://www.tdwg.org/activities/ncd/
• TDWG Ontology: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/
  • NCD Collection: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/Core#Collection (Class)
  • NCD Collection Terms: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection
  • NCD Institution Terms: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Institution
  • http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/CollectionType.rdf
  • http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/InstitutionType.rdf
  • http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/ContactDetails.rdf
  • http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TermWithSource.rdf

Term Categories

• Dataset, http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Dataset
• Collection, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#Collection
• Collection type, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/CollectionType#CollectionTypeTerm

• Kingdom, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#KingdomTypeTerm
• Primary grouping principle, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#PrimaryGroupingPrincipleTypeTerm
• Primary purpose, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#PrimaryPurposeTypeTerm
• Specimen preservation method, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#SpecimenPreservationMethodTypeTerm
• Development status, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#DevelopmentStatusTypeTerm
• Conservation status, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection#ConservationStatusTypeTerm

• Institution, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Institution#Institution
• Institution type, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/InstitutionType#institutionTypeTerm
• Contact details, http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/ContactDetails#ContactDetails

Contributors

Neil Thomson (Natural History Museum, London), Roger Hyam (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh), Constance Rinaldo (Harvard University), Carol Butler (Smithsonian Institution), Doug Holland (Missouri Botanical Gardens), Barbara Mathé (American Museum of Natural History), Günter Waibel (RLG Programs, OCLC), Wouter Addink (ETI Bioinformatics), Ruud Altenburg (ETI), Markus Döring (Berlin Botanic Garden).

References

• Thomson N, Hyam R, Rinaldo C, Butler C, Holland D, Mathé B, Waibel G, Addink W, Altenburg R, Döring M (2009). Natural Collections Description (NCD). A data standard for exchanging data describing natural history collections. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Available at http://www.tdwg.org/standards/312/, verified 7 June 2012.
• TDWG NCS Task Group (2009). Natural Collections Description (NCD) v0.9 2008. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Available at http://www.tdwg.org/standards/312/, verified 7 June 2012.
• TDWG (2009). TDWG LSID Ontology. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Available at http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/, verified 7 June 2012.

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