dwc:MaterialEntity
A term from the Darwin Core standard:
An entity that can be identified, exists for some period of time, and consists in whole or in part of physical matter while it exists.
Notes
The term is defined at the most general level to admit descriptions of any subtype of material entity within the scope of Darwin Core. In particular, any kind of material sample, preserved specimen, fossil, or exemplar from living collections is intended to be subsumed under this term.
Examples
- an instance of a fossil
- an instance of a herbarium sheet with its attached plant specimen
- a particular part of the plant-derived material affixed to a herbarium sheet
- an instance of a frozen tissue sample
- a specific water sample
- an instance of a meteorite fragment
- a particular wolf in a zoo
- a particular pack of wolves in the wild
- an isolated molecule of DNA
- a specific deep-frozen DNA sample
- a particular field notebook
- a particular paper page from a field notebook
- an instance of a printed photograph
Related Data
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Properties
Label
MaterialEntity
EUPH UID
[0.0.MTRLN596]
IRI
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MaterialEntity
EUPH URI
https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/metadata/descriptors/0.0.MTRLN596
Data types
String
Unit
No unit
Deprecated
Published
2025-01-20
Updated
2025-01-21
Descriptor relationships
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