gbif:recordedByID

[dagendresen]

Why were two new terms minted gbif:recordedByID and gbif:identifiedByID when Darwin Core already has two existing corresponding terms dwciri:recordedBy and dwciri:identifiedBy ?

... to enable concatenating IDs separated by pipe | ?

[timrobertson100]

A couple of reasons.

Firstly, the IRI terms aren't compatible with the simple Darwin Core (i.e. a CSV with a header row) or the way the IPT provides data mappings in the schemas as neither are namespace-aware and you get collisions on the labels.

Secondly, the IRI terms are intended to resolve to a non-literal object and used in RDF. Here, like you note the new terms allow multiple identifiers, which may or may not resolve or be IRIs.

It is also the case that many typical search APIs have been developed with Darwin Core fields, again ignoring the namespace to be intuitive. The GBIF API is one of them, and extending it to allow e.g. &recordedByID=... is intuitive to users.

There are related discussions here and here and both terms were proposed for inclusion to Darwin Core before being added to the GBIF namespace. They can move namespace in the future of course.

[timrobertson100]

Closing due to inactivity, please reopen for further discussion/change requests etc.

[Archilegt]

@timrobertson100 , why the term identifiedBy is not appearing anymore in the advanced version of GBIF Occurrence search? Please, bring it back, I need it.

[MortenHofft]

@Archilegt identifiedBy has never been part of the API or the interface as far as I know. I might be mistaken, but it must be many years ago if so.

IdentifiedById was added recently and is still available in api and interface

[Archilegt]

@MortenHofft , maybe I got confused with an identifier that is often misrecorded in datasets as collector: Karl Kraepelin. I do remember seeing at least three spellings of Kraepelin's name in a recent search, I just don't remember the parameters. As he is primarily an identifier, I thought that the field disappeared from the options. Then my request would be: Please, made the field "identifiedBy" available in the advanced search.
P.S.: The newly added recordedByID field displays properly in the English interface but in the Spanish interface it displays with the same label than recordedBy: both read "Registrado por". So it looks like a field replication even when it is not. It should read "Registrado por ID". The newly added identifiedByID displays as "Identificado por" but it should read "Identificado por ID".

[timrobertson100]

Thanks @Archilegt (and @MortenHofft)

I've logged the feature request here and we'll fix the translations too. Thank you.

While that is open, a workaround might be to download the data in Darwin Core Archive format to see the identifiedBy values.

[Archilegt]

@timrobertson100
Many thanks! I hope that everything is going well in CPH!
Kind regards,
Carlos