Natural Collections Description
Contents
- 1 Natural Collections Description (NCD) Terms
- 2 Term Categories
- 2.1 Dataset Terms (dcmitype:Dataset)
- 2.2 Collection Terms (ncd:Collection)
- 2.3 Collection Type Terms
- 2.4 Kingdom
- 2.5 Primary Grouping Principle
- 2.6 Primary Purpose
- 2.7 Specimen Preservation Method
- 2.8 Development Status
- 2.9 Conservation Status
- 2.10 Institution
- 2.11 Institution Type
- 2.12 Contact details
- 3 Contributors
- 4 References
- 5 Links
- 6 Export RDF
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 (dcmitype:Dataset)
dc:source | dc:creator | vcard:Orgname | dcterms:created | dc:contributor | dcterms:modified | dc:rights | vcard:NOTE
Collection Terms (ncd:Collection)
ncd:DerivedCollection | ncd:collectionID | ncd:alternativeID | ncd:isPartOfCollection | ncd:acronymOrCoden | dc:title | dc:alternative | vcard:FN | dc:description | ncd:descriptionForSpecialists | ncd:collectionExtent | ncd:collectionType | ncd:commonNameCoverage | ncd:conservationStatus | ncd:conservationStatusDate | dc:format | dcterms:medium | ncd:developmentStatus | ncd:expeditionNameCoverage | ncd:formationPeriod | ncd:geospatialCoverage | ncd:geospatialCoordinates | ncd:termLevelAccess | ncd:kingdomCoverage | ncd:knownToContainTypes | ncd:livingTimePeriodCoverage | ncd:physicalLocation | ncd:primaryGroupingPrinciple | ncd:primaryPurpose | dc:relation | ncd:relatedCollection | ncd:specimenPreservationMethod | ncd:taxonCoverage | ncd:temporalCoverage | dcterms:accessRights | ncd:usageRestrictions | dcterms:provenance | dc:rights | tdwgCommon:note
Collection Type Terms
Kingdom
Primary Grouping Principle
Primary Purpose
Specimen Preservation Method
Development Status
Conservation Status
Institution
Institution Type
Contact details
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
- Fegraus EH, Andelman S, Jones MB, and Schildhauer M (2005). Maximizing the Value of Ecological Data with Structured Metadata: An Introduction to Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and Principles for Metadata Creation. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 86(3): 158-168, DOI: 10.1890/0012-9623(2005)86[158:MTVOED]2.0.CO;2
- Michener, WK, Brunt JW, Helly JJ, Kirchner TB, and Stafford S (1997). Nongeospatial metadata for the ecological sciences. Ecological applications 7(1): 330-342.
- TDWG NCD Interest 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.
- 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.
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
