Change term - disposition

[deepreef]

Change term

• Submitter: Richard Pyle
• Proponents (who needs this change): Everyone
• Justification (why is this change necessary?): As currently defined, this property applies to the current state of a specimen, and specimens are included as examples within the definition of the MaterialSample class.

Current Term definition: https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_disposition

Proposed new attributes of the term:

• Term name (in lowerCamelCase): disposition
• Organized in Class (e.g. Location, Taxon): MaterialSample
• Definition of the term: The current state of a specimen with respect to the collection identified in collectionCode or collectionID.
• Usage comments (recommendations regarding content, etc.): Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
• Examples: in collection, missing, voucher elsewhere, duplicates elsewhere
• Refines (identifier of the broader term this term refines, if applicable): None
• Replaces (identifier of the existing term that would be deprecated and replaced by this term, if applicable): http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/disposition-2017-10-06
• ABCD 2.06 (XPATH of the equivalent term in ABCD or EFG, if applicable): DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/SpecimenUnit/Disposition

The only proposed change is to organize this term within the MaterialSample class, rather than the Occurrence class. No other changes to the term are proposed. Discussion around changes to MaterialSample on DwC (#314).

[tucotuco]

Related issues are Issue #1, Issue #3, Issue #24 (reopened because of renewed interest), Issue #314, Issue #332, Issue #344, Issue #345, and Issue #346.

[EstebanMH-SiB]

We endorse this proposal on behalf of @SiBColombia

[tucotuco]

This proposal has been labeled as 'Controversial' and in need of a task group to for resolution. It is no longer part of an active public review.

[tucotuco]

This issue has been superseded by #453