[obs] Joining DwC, OBOE, PO and PATO

[Shawn Bowers]

Hi,

I'm not sure what it means for there to be an Occurrence without an
observer ... I think "observer" though can be treated fairly loosely.
E.g., a sensor could be an observer, or a person who simply knows that
something happened within some temporal and spatial value or range,
without directly observing some or all of the space or the time ...
For instance, within a bird survey the location and date of the bird
observation can also implicitly be considered "observations" within
OBOE (which happen to contextualize the observation of the bird
itself).

Shawn


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at nescent.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Matt Jones wrote:
>
>> Or even to the dwc:Occurrence itself of we can consider an observation to
>> be a type of Occurrence.
>>
>> Fascinating.  In high-level conceptual terms, I have always considered an
>> occurrence to be a form of observation, not the other way around.
>
>
> Yes indeed, I've been inclined that way too. I was about to post that the
> other day on tdwg-content - I am curious what the audience there thinks
> about the relation between Occurrence and Observation.
>
> The sticky question might be whether an occurrence that wasn't observed is
> still an occurrence. If it is, can there be observations that don't have an
> observer, and if there can't be, then perhaps an occurrence is really not a
> kind of observation.
>
>        -hilmar
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