Submitter

Steve Baskauf

Summary:

In Issue 236, the term dwc:pathway was proposed. This proposed vocabulary is intended to be used as the values for that term and it should be considered together with that proposal.

Proponents and justification:

The proponents are the same as in the dwc:pathway proposal. The terms in this vocabulary were generated from the Fig. 1 in Groom et al. (2019) Improving Darwin Core for research and management of alien species https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.38084. This is the vocabulary already recommended to be used with the Invasive Species Pathways extension to Darwin Core (Pagad S, Genovesi P, Carnevali L, Scalera R, Clout M (2015) IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group: invasive alien species information management supporting practitioners, policy makers and decision takers. Management of Biological Invasions 6 (2): 127‑135. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2015.6.2.03, Scalera R, Genovesi P, Booy O, Essl F, Jeschke J, Hume P, McGeoch M, Pagad S, Roy H, Saul W, Wilson J (2016) Progress toward pathways prioritization in compliance to Aichi target 9. Convention on Biological Diversity, subsidiary body on scientific technical and technological advice, twentieth meeting UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/20/INF/5 URL: https://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/sbstta/sbstta-20/information/sbstta-20-inf-05-en.pdf). Please refer to those publications for a complete justification.

Details of the proposal

The vocabulary terms and their metadata are provided in this proposed list of terms document. Each term has a full term IRI, which must be used as a value for dwciri:pathway and a controlled value string, which must be used a value for dwc:pathway.

This proposal creates a new vocabulary within the Darwin Core standard. According to the IRI patterns used in the http://rs.tdwg.org/ subdomain, the first level IRI path segment must differ from that of the main Darwin Core vocabulary (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/). The proposed first level IRI path segment for this vocabulary is dwcpw, making the IRI for the vocabulary http://rs.tdwg.org/dwcpw/. The proposed namespace IRI for terms in the vocabulary is http://rs.tdwg.org/dwcpw/values/. The proposed preferred namespace abbreviation matches the first level IRI path segment: dcwpw:.

In accordance with Section 4.1.2 of the Standards Documentation Specification, the class of all controlled value terms is skos:Concept. Following typical SKOS practice, the concepts are also grouped into a concept scheme.

Because concepts in this scheme may be hierarchically related to broader terms, the lowest level concepts have skos:broader relationships to broader concepts. The broader concepts have skos:broader relationships to top-level concepts in the scheme. To explore these relationships, click on the Has borader concept links in the list of terms document.

Term details

To review the complete list of terms, view the list of terms document. To view the metadata in tabular form, view or download this CSV file.