Attributes in the Swedish LifeWatch web feature service (WFS)

Attribute name

Typ

Attribute description

  scientificName

String

Darwin Core term name: scientificName. The full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known. When forming part of an Identification, this should be the name in lowest level taxonomic rank that can be determined. This term should not contain identification qualifications, which should instead be supplied in the IdentificationQualifier term. Currently scientific name without author is provided.

  vernacularName

String

Darwin Core term name: vernacularName. A common or vernacular name.

  taxonRank

String

Darwin Core term name: taxonRank. The taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientificName. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. This property is currently not used.

  kingdom

String

Darwin Core term name: kingdom. The full scientific name of the kingdom in which the taxon is classified. This property is currently not used.

  phylum

String

Darwin Core term name: phylum. The full scientific name of the phylum or division in which the taxon is classified. This property is currently not used.

  class

String

Darwin Core term name: class. The full scientific name of the class in which the taxon is classified. This property is currently not used.

  order

String

Darwin Core term name: order. The full scientific name of the order in which the taxon is classified. This property is currently not used.

  family

String

Darwin Core term name: family. The full scientific name of the family in which the taxon is classified. This property is currently not used.

  genus

String

Darwin Core term name: genus. The full scientific name of the genus in which the taxon is classified. This property is currently not used.

  specificEpithet

String

Darwin Core term name: specificEpithet. The name of the first or species epithet of the scientificName. This property is currently not used.

  infraspecificEpithet

String

Darwin Core term name: infraspecificEpithet. The name of the lowest or terminal infraspecific epithet of the scientificName, excluding any rank designation. This property is currently not used.

  taxonID

String

Darwin Core term name: taxonID. An identifier for the set of taxon information (data associated with the Taxon class). May be a global unique identifier or an identifier specific to the data set. In SwedishSpeciesObservationSOAPService this property has the same value as property TaxonConceptID. GUID in Dyntaxa is used as value for this property.

  DyntaxaTaxonID

Integer

Not defined in Darwin Core. Taxon id (not GUID) value in Dyntaxa.

  individualCount

String

Darwin Core term name: individualCount. The number of individuals represented present at the time of the Occurrence.

  occurrenceStatus

String

Darwin Core term name: occurrenceStatus. A statement about the presence or absence of a Taxon at a Location. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. This property is currently not used.

  QuantityUnit

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Unit for quantity value of observed species.

  Quantity

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Quantity of observed species, for example distribution area. Unit is specified in property QuantityUnit.

  lifeStage

String

Darwin Core term name: lifeStage. The age class or life stage of the biological individual(s) at the time the Occurrence was recorded. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.

  sex

String

Darwin Core term name: sex. The sex of the biological individual(s) represented in the Occurrence. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.

  behavior

String

Darwin Core term name: behavior. A description of the behavior shown by the subject at the time the Occurrence was recorded. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary.

  recordedBy

String

Darwin Core term name: recordedBy. A list (concatenated and separated) of names of people, groups, or organizations responsible for recording the original Occurrence. The primary collector or observer, especially one who applies a personal identifier (recordNumber), should be listed first.

  IsNeverFoundObservation

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Indicates if this observation is a never found observation. "Never found observation" is an observation that says that the specified species was not found in a location deemed appropriate for the species.

  IsNotRediscoveredObservation

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Indicates if this observation is a not rediscovered observation. "Not rediscovered observation" is an observation that says that the specified species was not found in a location where it has previously been observed.

  establishmentMeans

String

Darwin Core term name: establishmentMeans. The process by which the biological individual(s) represented in the Occurrence became established at the location. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. This property is currently not used.

  IsNaturalOccurrence

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Indicates if this species occurrence is natural or if it is a result of human activity.

  IsPositiveObservation

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Indicates if this observation is a positive observation. "Positive observation" is a normal observation indicating that a species has been seen at a specified location.

  OccurrenceURL

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Web address that leads to more information about the occurrence. The information should be accessible from the most commonly used web browsers.

  occurrenceID

String

Darwin Core term name: occurrenceID. An identifier for the Occurrence (as opposed to a particular digital record of the occurrence). In the absence of a persistent global unique identifier, construct one from a combination of identifiers in the record that will most closely make the occurrenceID globally unique. The format LSID (Life Science Identifiers) is used as GUID (Globally unique identifier) for species observations. Currently known GUIDs: Species Gateway (Artportalen) 1, urn:lsid:artportalen.se:Sighting:{reporting system}.{id} where {reporting system} is one of Bird, Bugs, Fish, MarineInvertebrates, PlantAndMushroom or Vertebrate. Species Gateway (Artportalen) 2, urn:lsid:artportalen.se:Sighting:{id} Red list database: urn:lsid:artdata.slu.se:SpeciesObservation:{id}

  reproductiveCondition

String

Darwin Core term name: reproductiveCondition. The reproductive condition of the biological individual(s) represented in the Occurrence. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. This property is currently not used.

  catalogNumber

String

Darwin Core term name: catalogNumber. An identifier (preferably unique) for the record within the data set or collection.

  individualID

String

Darwin Core term name: individualID. An identifier for an individual or named group of individual organisms represented in the Occurrence. Meant to accommodate resampling of the same individual or group for monitoring purposes. May be a global unique identifier or an identifier specific to a data set. This property is currently not used.

  previousIdentifications

String

Darwin Core term name: previousIdentifications. A list (concatenated and separated) of previous assignments of names to the Occurrence. This property is currently not used.

  associatedMedia

String

Darwin Core term name: associatedMedia. A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers (publication, global unique identifier, URI) of media associated with the Occurrence. This property is currently not used.

  Substrate

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Substrate on which the species was observed.

  locality

String

Darwin Core term name: locality. The specific description of the place. Less specific geographic information can be provided in other geographic terms (higherGeography, continent, country, stateProvince, county, municipality, waterBody, island, islandGroup). This term may contain information modified from the original to correct perceived errors or standardize the description.

  stateProvince

String

Darwin Core term name: stateProvince. The name of the next smaller administrative region than country (state, province, canton, department, region, etc.) in which the Location occurs. ('landskap' in swedish).

  county

String

Darwin Core term name: county. The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than stateProvince(county, shire, department, etc.) in which the Location occurs ('län' in swedish).

  municipality

String

Darwin Core term name: municipality. The full, unabbreviated name of the next smaller administrative region than county (city, municipality, etc.) in which the Location occurs. Do not use this term for a nearby named place that does not contain the actual location.

  Parish

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Parish where the species observation where made. 'Socken/församling' in swedish.

  decimalLongitude

String

Darwin Core term name: decimalLongitude. Definition in Darwin Core: The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it. Legal values lie between -180 and 180, inclusive.

  decimalLatitude

String

Darwin Core term name: decimalLatitude. Definition in Darwin Core: The geographic latitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a Location. Positive values are north of the Equator, negative values are south of it. Legal values lie between -90 and 90, inclusive.

  coordinateUncertaintyInMeters

String

Darwin Core term name: coordinateUncertaintyInMeters. The horizontal distance (in meters) from the given CoordinateX and CoordinateY describing the smallest circle containing the whole of the Location. Leave the value empty if the uncertainty is unknown, cannot be estimated, or is not applicable (because there are no coordinates). Zero is not a valid value for this term.

  CoordinateX double precision,

Double

Not defined in Darwin Core. East-west value of the coordinate. The properties CoordinateX, CoordinateY, CoordinateZ, CoordinateM and CoordinateSystemWkt defines where the species observation was made. Which values that are valid depends on which coordinate system that is used.

  CoordinateY double precision,

Double

Not defined in Darwin Core. North-south value of the coordinate. The properties CoordinateX, CoordinateY, CoordinateZ, CoordinateM and CoordinateSystemWkt defines where the species observation was made. Which values that are valid depends on which coordinate system that is used.

  minimumDepthInMeters

String

Darwin Core term name: minimumDepthInMeters. The lesser depth of a range of depth below the local surface, in meters. This property is currently not used.

  maximumDepthInMeters

String

Darwin Core term name: maximumDepthInMeters. The greater depth of a range of depth below the local surface, in meters. This property is currently not used.

  minimumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters

String

Darwin Core term name: minimumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters. The lesser distance in a range of distance from a reference surface in the vertical direction, in meters. Use positive values for locations above the surface, negative values for locations below. If depth measures are given, the reference surface is the location given by the depth, otherwise the reference surface is the location given by the elevation. This property is currently not used.

  maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters

String

Darwin Core term name: maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters. The greater distance in a range of distance from a reference surface in the vertical direction, in meters. Use positive values for locations above the surface, negative values for locations below. If depth measures are given, the reference surface is the location given by the depth, otherwise the reference surface is the location given by the elevation. This property is currently not used.

  Start

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Information about date and time when the species observation started.

  End

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Information about date and time when the species observation ended.

  habitat

String

Darwin Core term name: habitat. A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred. This property is currently not used.

  eventDate

String

Darwin Core term name: eventDate. The date-time or interval during which an Event occurred. For occurrences, this is the date-time when the event was recorded. Not suitable for a time in a geological context. Recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as ISO 8601:2004(E). For example: ”2007-03-01 13:00:00 - 2008-05-11 15:30:00” This property is currently not used.

  startDayOfYear

Integer

Darwin Core term name: startDayOfYear. The earliest ordinal day of the year on which the Event occurred (1 for January 1, 365 for December 31, except in a leap year, in which case it is 366). This property is currently not used.

  endDayOfYear

Integer

Darwin Core term name: endDayOfYear. The latest ordinal day of the year on which the Event occurred (1 for January 1, 365 for December 31, except in a leap year, in which case it is 366). This property is currently not used.

  year

Integer

Darwin Core term name: year. The four-digit year in which the Event occurred, according to the Common Era Calendar. This property is currently not used.

  month

Integer

Darwin Core term name: month. The ordinal month in which the Event occurred. This property is currently not used.

  day

Integer

Darwin Core term name: day. The integer day of the month on which the Event occurred (start date of observation). This property is currently not used.

  datasetName

String

Darwin Core term name: datasetName. The name identifying the data set from which the record was derived.

  rightsHolder

String

Darwin Core term name: dcterms:rightsHolder. A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. This property is currently not used.

  Owner

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Name of the organization or person that owns the species observation.

  accessRights

String

Darwin Core term name: dcterms:accessRights. Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.

  ReportedBy

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Name of the person that reported the species observation.

  ReportedDate

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Date and time when the species observation was reported.

  modified

String

Darwin Core term name: dcterms:modified. The most recent date-time on which the resource was changed. For Darwin Core, recommended best practice is to use an encoding scheme, such as ISO 8601:2004(E). This property is currently not used.

  basisOfRecord

String

Darwin Core term name: basisOfRecord. The specific nature of the data record - a subtype of the dcterms:type. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Darwin Core Type Vocabulary (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/type-vocabulary/index.htm). In Species Gateway this property has the value HumanObservation.

  Id integer,

Integer

Not defined in Darwin Core. SwedishSpeciesObservationService specific id for this species observation. The id is only used in communication with SwedishSpeciesObservationService and has no meaning in other contexts. This id is currently not stable. The same observation may have another id tomorrow. In the future this id should be stable.

  UncertainDetermination

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Indicates if the species observer himself is uncertain about the taxon determination.

  identificationVerificationStatus

String

Darwin Core term name: identificationVerificationStatus. A categorical indicator of the extent to which the taxonomic identification has been verified to be correct. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as that used in HISPID/ABCD. This property is currently not used.

  ProjectName

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Name of the project.

  RedlistCategory

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Redlist category for redlisted species. The property also contains information about which redlist that is referenced. Example value: CR (Sweden, 2010). Possible redlist values are DD (Data Deficient), EX (Extinct), RE (Regionally Extinct), CR (Critically Endangered), EN (Endangered), VU (Vulnerable), NT (Near Threatened). Not redlisted species has no value in this property.

  Natura2000

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. This property indicates whether the species is included in Natura 2000.

  ConservationRelevant

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. This property indicates whether a species has been classified as nature conservation relevant ('naturvårdsintressant' in swedish). The concept 'nature conservation relevant' must be defined before this property can be used.

  ActionPlan

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. This property indicates whether the species is the subject of an action plan ('åtgärdsprogram' in swedish).

  ProtectedByLaw

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. This property indicates whether the species is protected by the law in Sweden.

  SwedishOccurrence

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. Information about the species occurrence in Sweden. For example information about if the species reproduce in sweden.

  SwedishImmigrationHistory

String

Not defined in Darwin Core. This property contains information about the species immigration history.