{
  "identifier": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/dwc-dp/organism-assertion",
  "url": "table-schemas/organism-assertion.json",
  "name": "organism-assertion",
  "title": "Organism Assertion",
  "description": "A dwc:Assertion made by a dcterms:Agent about a dwc:Organism.",
  "comments": "",
  "examples": "",
  "namespace": "dwc",
  "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/MeasurementOrFact",
  "dcterms:references": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/MeasurementOrFact-2023-09-13",
  "rdfs:comment": "A measurement of or fact about an rdfs:Resource (http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource).",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "organismID",
      "title": "Organism ID",
      "description": "An identifier for a dwc:Organism.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a persistent, globally unique identifier.",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/organismID",
      "dcterms:references": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/organismID-2023-06-28",
      "rdfs:comment": "An identifier for the dwc:Organism instance (as opposed to a particular digital record of the dwc:Organism). May be a globally unique identifier or an identifier specific to the data set.",
      "constraints": {
        "required": true,
        "unique": false
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionID",
      "title": "Assertion ID",
      "description": "An identifier for a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a globally unique identifier.",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionID",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": "",
      "constraints": {
        "required": false,
        "unique": true
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "verbatimAssertionType",
      "title": "Verbatim Assertion Type",
      "description": "A string representing the type of dwc:Assertion as it appeared in the original record.",
      "comments": "This term is meant to allow the capture of an unaltered original name for a dwc:assertionType. This term is meant to be used in addition to dwc:assertionType, not instead of it.",
      "examples": "`water_temp`; `Fish biomass`; `sampling net mesh size`",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/verbatimAssertionType",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionType",
      "title": "Assertion Type",
      "description": "A category that best matches the nature of a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. This term has an equivalent in the dwciri: namespace that allows only an IRI as a value, whereas this term allows for any string literal value.",
      "examples": "`tail length`; `temperature`; `trap line length`; `survey area`; `trap type`",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionType",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionTypeIRI",
      "title": "Assertion Type (IRI)",
      "description": "An IRI of a controlled vocabulary value for a type of dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use an IRI for a term in a controlled vocabulary.",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwciri",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwciri/assertionTypeIRI",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionTypeSource",
      "title": "Assertion Type Source",
      "description": "A reference to the controlled vocabulary in which the definition of a value in dwc:assertionType is given.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": "A related resource from which the described resource is derived."
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionMadeDate",
      "title": "Assertion Made Date",
      "description": "A date on which a dwc:Assertion was created.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a date that conforms to ISO 8601-1:2019.",
      "examples": "`1963-03-08T14:07-06:00` (8 Mar 1963 at or after 2:07pm and before 2:08pm in the time zone six hours earlier than UTC); `2009-02-20T08:40Z` (20 February 2009 at or after 8:40am and before 8:41 UTC); `2018-08-29T15:19` (29 August 2018 at or after 3:19pm and before 3:20pm local time); `1809-02-12` (within the day 12 February 1809); `1906-06` (in the month of June 1906); `1971` (in the year 1971); `2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z` (some time within the interval beginning 1 March 2007 at 1pm UTC and before 11 May 2008 at 3:30pm UTC); `1900/1909` (some time within the interval between the beginning of the year 1900 and before the year 1909); `2007-11-13/15` (some time in the interval between the beginning of 13 November 2007 and before 15 November 2007)",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionMadeDate",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionEffectiveDate",
      "title": "Assertion Effective Date",
      "description": "A date on which a state or measurement of a dwc:Assertion was deemed to first be in effect.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a date that conforms to ISO 8601-1:2019.",
      "examples": "`1963-03-08T14:07-06:00` (8 Mar 1963 at or after 2:07pm and before 2:08pm in the time zone six hours earlier than UTC); `2009-02-20T08:40Z` (20 February 2009 at or after 8:40am and before 8:41 UTC); `2018-08-29T15:19` (29 August 2018 at or after 3:19pm and before 3:20pm local time); `1809-02-12` (within the day 12 February 1809); `1906-06` (in the month of June 1906); `1971` (in the year 1971); `2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z` (some time within the interval beginning 1 March 2007 at 1pm UTC and before 11 May 2008 at 3:30pm UTC); `1900/1909` (some time within the interval between the beginning of the year 1900 and before the year 1909); `2007-11-13/15` (some time in the interval between the beginning of 13 November 2007 and before 15 November 2007)",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionEffectiveDate",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionValue",
      "title": "Assertion Value",
      "description": "An asserted value, if it is not numeric.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionValue",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionValueIRI",
      "title": "Assertion Value (IRI)",
      "description": "An IRI of the controlled vocabulary value for a value of a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use an IRI for a term in a controlled vocabulary.",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwciri",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwciri/assertionValueIRI",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionValueSource",
      "title": "Assertion Value Source",
      "description": "A reference to a controlled vocabulary in which the definition of a value in dwc:assertionValue is given.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": "A related resource from which the described resource is derived."
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionValueNumeric",
      "title": "Assertion Value Numeric",
      "description": "An asserted value, if it is numeric.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "number",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionValueNumeric",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionUnit",
      "title": "Assertion Unit",
      "description": "Unit associated with the value in dwc:assertionValue or dwc:assertionValueNumeric.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Ontology of Units of Measure http://www.wurvoc.org/vocabularies/om-1.8/ of SI units, derived units, or other non-SI units accepted for use within the SI. For units that are composed of multiple parts, use the patterns as given in \"A Primer for Communicating Mathematics via Plain Text\" (https://cse.sc.edu/~fenner/latex-ASCII.pdf) by Stephen Fenner (e.g., `g/cm^3` for grams per cubic centimeter). For other units, provide the value as a recognizable standard (e.g., '%') or written out in full and in the plural (e.g., `individuals`). It is fine to provide non-SI units in the original language of the dataset.",
      "examples": "`m`; `s`; `g`; `ml`",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionUnit",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionUnitIRI",
      "title": "Assertion Unit (IRI)",
      "description": "An IRI of a controlled vocabulary value for the unit of a dwc:assertionValue or a dwc:assertionValueNumeric.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use an IRI for a term in a controlled vocabulary.",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwciri",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwciri/assertionUnitIRI",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionUnitSource",
      "title": "Assertion Unit Source",
      "description": "A reference to a controlled vocabulary in which the definition of the value in dwc:assertionUnit is given.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/source",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": "A related resource from which the described resource is derived."
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionError",
      "title": "Assertion Error",
      "description": "The description of the potential error associated with dwc:assertionValueNumeric.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "`0.01`; `normal distribution with variation of 2 m`",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionError",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionBy",
      "title": "Assertion By",
      "description": "A list (concatenated and separated) of names of dcterms:Agents responsible for making a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to separate the values in a list with space vertical bar space (` | `).",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionBy",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionByID",
      "title": "Assertion By ID",
      "description": "An identifier for a dcterms:Agent responsible for making a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to use a globally unique identifier.",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwciri",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwciri/assertionByID",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": "",
      "constraints": {
        "required": false,
        "unique": false
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionProtocols",
      "title": "Assertion Protocols",
      "description": "Names of, references to, or descriptions of dwc:Protocols used in making a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionProtocols",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionProtocolID",
      "title": "Assertion Protocol ID",
      "description": "An identifier for a dwc:Protocol used to make a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwciri",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwciri/assertionProtocolID",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": "",
      "constraints": {
        "required": false,
        "unique": false
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionReferences",
      "title": "Assertion References",
      "description": "A list (concatenated and separated) of dcterms:BibliographicResources associated with a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "Recommended best practice is to separate the values in a list with space vertical bar space (` | `).",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionReferences",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "assertionRemarks",
      "title": "Assertion Remarks",
      "description": "Comments or notes about a dwc:Assertion.",
      "comments": "",
      "examples": "",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "default",
      "namespace": "dwc",
      "dcterms:isVersionOf": "http://example.com/term-pending/dwc/assertionRemarks",
      "dcterms:references": "",
      "rdfs:comment": ""
    }
  ],
  "primaryKey": "assertionID",
  "foreignKeys": [
    {
      "fields": "organismID",
      "predicate": "about",
      "reference": {
        "resource": "organism",
        "fields": "organismID"
      }
    },
    {
      "fields": "assertionByID",
      "predicate": "asserted by",
      "reference": {
        "resource": "agent",
        "fields": "agentID"
      }
    },
    {
      "fields": "assertionProtocolID",
      "predicate": "followed",
      "reference": {
        "resource": "protocol",
        "fields": "protocolID"
      }
    }
  ]
}