property:action

[dshorthouse]

action (property)

Definition	The name of the single action written as a verb in past tense. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.
Existing property
Existing namespace
Existing property identifier
Format	string
Required	yes
Constraints	Controlled vocabulary
Examples	"collected","identified"
Notes	Thesaurus available at https://tdwg.github.io/attribution/people/dwc/vocubulary/action.xml

[qgroom]

Some actions are only possible with particular basisOfRecord values.
We're tending to only consider PRESERVED_SPECIMEN, but there are other actions specific to FOSSIL_SPECIMEN and MACHINE_OBSERVATIONs for example?

Should we recommend which actions should be use with which basisOfRecord?

[dshorthouse]

Very good point. I suppose one naive way of determining that is to look through recordedBy or identifiedBy across all of GBIF for basisOfRecords other than PRESERVED_SPECIMEN or HUMAN_OBSERVATION and see if they have been overloaded in any way to indicate actions we're not accommodating here. Anyone know someone behind PBDB, https://paleobiodb.org/ (the Peanut Butter Database as I like to call it).