I might have proposed this before, so there may be a reason why this is not a good idea which I cannot remember. In line with the convention in Darwin Core to prepend names of remarks fields with the name of the class they belong to, I propose to change the name of the miscellaneous notes term to hispid:preservedSpecimenRemarks. This will make it immediately clear to people who know Darwin Core, but not the old HISPID term, what the difference is between our miscellaneous notes and occurrenceRemarks or eventRemarks. It also makes sense with the translation to/from ABCD (not to mention the definition we give for the term). We can still have a skos:altLabel 'Miscellaneous notes' to assist the HISPID-4-and-before literati.
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://hiscom.chah.org.au/hispid/terms/miscellaneousRemarks">
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Preserved Specimen Remarks</rdfs:label>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Preserved Specimen Remarks</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Miscellaneous notes</skos:altLabel>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/>
<skos:definition xml:lang="en">Any additional information to be transferred pertaining to the collection object.</skos:definition>
<dwcattributes:status>recommended</dwcattributes:status>
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://hiscom.chah.org.au/hispid/terms/"/>
<dcterms:modified rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2015-07-11</dcterms:modified>
<dcterms:hasVersion rdf:resource="http://hiscom.chah.org.au/hispid/terms/preservedSpecimenRemarks-2016-10-26"/>
<dwcattributes:abcdEquivalence>//Unit/Notes</dwcattributes:abcdEquivalence>
<dcterms:replaces rdf:resource="http://hiscom.chah.org.au/hispid/terms/miscellaneousRemarks-2015-07-11"/>
<skos:scopeNote>This term is to be used for miscellaneous notes that pertain to the specimen itself rather than the Occurrence, Event or Identification, for which there are more specific Darwin Core terms (occurrenceRemarks, eventRemarks and identificationRemarks).</skos:scopeNote>
<dwcattributes:organizedInClass rdf:resource="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/PreservedSpecimen"/>
</rdf:Description>Note that I have added a skos:scopeNote to clarify the term's usage.
I might have proposed this before, so there may be a reason why this is not a good idea which I cannot remember. In line with the convention in Darwin Core to prepend names of
remarksfields with the name of the class they belong to, I propose to change the name of the miscellaneous notes term to hispid:preservedSpecimenRemarks. This will make it immediately clear to people who know Darwin Core, but not the old HISPID term, what the difference is between our miscellaneous notes and occurrenceRemarks or eventRemarks. It also makes sense with the translation to/from ABCD (not to mention the definition we give for the term). We can still have askos:altLabel'Miscellaneous notes' to assist the HISPID-4-and-before literati.Note that I have added a
skos:scopeNoteto clarify the term's usage.