2021-11-04 Meeting notes with Simon and TERN team

Darwin Core

Simon

• Meeting with Peggy Newman, Javier Marino (ALA) with GBIF

  • Everyone is using Darwin Core Occurrence records for everything

  • GBIF has extended with more classes and types

    • Extensions involve 2-3 star schemas

    • Hired Tuco to do some analysis on the information model

      • Events - Similar to PROV-based model with events/activities

      • Result - Observations, samplings

      • Entities - aka. features of interests

      • GBIF’s event-based model

      • More types of activities (acts of…)

      • More specialised types of observations (data processing)

    • Why not extend SOSA?

      • Legacy reasons

      • Alignments to SOSA should be straight forward though

      • Social reasons

      • Acceptance from community

Soil standards project

Simon

• ASLS -

  • Vegetation chapter

    • Written from the perspective from the soil domain

  • Why is it popular?

    • Many uses in state and federal level government

TERN Conceptual Information Model

Simon

• Simon will help with the writing in this repository - https://github.com/ternaustralia/linkeddata-site/blob/master/tern-ontology/conceptual-information-model.md

• Live website -