Improve term indices to be more complete? about dwc HOT 4 OPEN

Thanks for reporting this @csbrown. There are indeed terms missing from the indices. We'll fix that.

In the meantime, does the Quick Reference Guide serve your purposes? It is meant to be the primary human reference to the terms in the standard and has the terms organized into the Darwin Core classes.

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Oh, yes the quick reference looks very handy. Thanks for the reference.

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As @tucotuco said, you probably want to use the Quick Reference Guide for your purposes. The List of Terms is a record of complete metadata for every Darwin Core term that ever existed in the http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ namespace, including terms that were deprecated (often those replaced by newer terms). The main reason for including the deprecated terms is so that if someone dereferences one of those old terms, they will get sent to the appropriate place in the List of Terms to find out what it means and what term it was replaced by (if any).

Placement into categories in the list of terms document is controlled by the value in the tdwgutility_organizedInClass column of this table. I did a sort by the term_deprecated column, then the tdwgutility_organizedInClass column and it appears that the terms whose value in the tdwgutility_organizedInClass column don't place them in one of the indexed categories are all deprecated. So yes, they are hard to find, but they should not be chosen for new uses anyway. Maybe what we should be doing is putting all of the deprecated terms into a pseudo-class of deprecated terms so that they would appear in the index separately.

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Actually, upon more careful examination, the problem you are seeing with dwc:datasetName is that record-level terms aren't being handled consistently with respect to their tdwgutility_organizedInClass value. This is just a bug in the system of generating the page and needs to be fixed. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, we will fix it!

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