Suggestions for vocabularies to do: waterBody, island and island group and sampleSizeUnit and organismQuantityType

[ManonGros]

Thanks Cecilie for your presentation!

I think that it would be great to have a vocabulary for waterBody (to enable discovery and use of freshwater and marine data).
Similarly, if there could be vocabularies for island and island group, the community might appreciate.

One (difficult) vocabulary that would be great to have would be units! Especially sampleSizeUnit and organismQuantityType. It would facilitate interoperability of the data provided. I don't know how doable this is but that would help a lot in analysis.

[ymgan]

Hey, I don't know if there is any plan in the future to have vocabulary also for the measurementUnit of emof extension. OBIS recommends using emof for samplingSizeUnit and BODC vocab P06 collection is the one we use for measurement unit and IDs. If GBIF decides to have vocab for units later on, perhaps the P06 collection can be helpful!

Cheers

[ManonGros]

Suggestion of Vocabulary for waterBody from the draft of Freshwater Guide: "Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names."
See also: gbif/doc-freshwater-data-publishing-guide#17

[CecSve]

waterBody relevant vocabulary: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C19/current/

[rubenpp7]

Marine regions offers controlled terms for islands, water masses (waterBody?), archipelagos (island groups) and many more oceanic and coastal objects.

They also have some freshwater objects such as rivers and lakes although I'm not sure of how well maintained the freshwater part is since they are dedicated to the Marine realm mainly.

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Regarding OrganismQuantityType, OBIS recommends using terms from the P01 collection of BODC (e.g. https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck/blob/576fa36aa600ae0ca4e4c4853fe110d7a295bb75/files/workingEnvironment.R#L37-L57).

P01 terms are quite specific but if something broader is preferred the BODC semantic model links those P01 terms to terms in S06 for parameters.

P01 is also a huge collection but one can filter only the biotic parameters by using the related SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters term