Bird tracking example - Questions and improvements

[peterdesmet]

Unresolved questions raised when mapping bird tracking data to DwC-DP: https://github.com/gbif/dwc-dp-examples/tree/master/observation/bird-tracking

• How to indicate the source system ("Movebank"), see How to indicate source data management system? tdwg/dwc#749
• What field is needed in addition to minimum/maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters? #Re-evaluating recorded height inbo/movepub#109
• How to indicate occurrences were obtained by a GPS tag on a bird?
  • basisOfRecord: "MachineObservation": basisOfRecord not part of DwC-DP
  • eventType: "gps" (current and most simple implementation): works, but what is best a good controlled vocab term?
  • samplingProtocol: "GPS logger": samplingProtocol not part of DwC-DP.
  • protocolName: "GPS logger": requires two extra tables: event-protocol and protocol, see Add example: bird tracking data from Movebank #13 (comment)
• Add higherClassification or nomenclaturalCode to disambiguate homononyms in scientificName: kingdom in occurrence? dwc-dp#141
• Resolve Remove undefined dcterms:references dwc-dp#144
• Express rightsHolder in metadata: Rightsholder in metadata dwc-dp#142

/cc @sannegovaert

[sarahcd]

Good questions.

• Height: I added comments in Re-evaluating recorded height inbo/movepub#109
• Note that solutions to indicate an animal-borne GPS tag should align with use for other MachineObservations, including other animal-borne tags (e.g., estimating the location with radio telemetry), or unattached sensors (e.g., occurrence location based on the GPS on a drone that observed the animal).