[obs] Species occurrences in OBOE

[Hilmar Lapp]

Specimen records and species occurrence records are probably most  
typically transported in Darwin Core (DwC). Bob Morris and I are  
wondering whether anyone has thought yet about wrapping such a DwC  
record in an OBOE document.

The OBOE paper doesn't provide a treatment of this, and my  
recollection from the TDWG Task Group meeting is that it hasn't been  
thought through yet. Also, looking at OBOE, DwC terms might be used to  
describe the Entity, but a direct wrapping does not seem obvious if  
not impossible. That's not to say that a DwC occurrence (an  
observation) couldn't be mapped to an equivalent OBOE document, but in  
my recollection such a mapping has not been defined yet.

Can those who are more familiar with OBOE confirm this or provide  
pointers to where this question is being dealt with?

	-hilmar
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