What I make of it
The biodiversity occurrence model behind GBIF.
Darwin Core
Information Model
Biodiversity
openly published
Darwin Core is a standard for biodiversity data sharing maintained by the Darwin Core Maintenance Group . It includes a conceptual model, specifications and schemas for sharing via various data formats, and a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) by providing identifiers, labels, and definitions....