dwc:measurementOrFact
A data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.
Notes
Resources can be thought of as identifiable records or instances of classes and may include, but need not be limited to instances of dwc:Occurrence, dwc:Organism, dwc:MaterialEntity, dwc:Event, dcterms:Location, dwc:GeologicalContext, dwc:Identification, or dwc:Taxon.
Examples
- the weight of a dwc:Organism in grams
- the number of placental scars; surface water temperature in Celsius
References
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information-artifact-ontology/IAO. 2025 IAO. [2025-12-5] github.com
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Wieczorek J., Bloom D., Guralnick R., Blum S., Döring M., Giovanni R. et al. 2012 Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLOS ONE. Vol. 7, (1) p. e29715. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
Related Data
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Properties
Label
measurementOrFact
EUPH UID
[0.0.MSRMN602]
IRI
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MeasurementOrFact
EUPH IRI
https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/vocabulary/descriptors/0.0.MSRMN602
Data types
String
Unit
No unit
Deprecated
No
Published
2025-01-20
Updated
2026-02-06
Descriptor relationships
Statistic
Number of datasets
0
Number of columns
0
Number of data points
0