Natural Collections Description
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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.
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
Dataset Terms
Collection
Collection Type
Kingdom
Primary Grouping Principle
Primary Purpose
Specimen Preservation Method
Development Status
Conservation Status
Institution
Institution Type
Institution Type
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.
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
