Hi @Anabela, great question. Certainly, we are already in the process (as part of building the TDWG Collection Descriptions standard) of gathering collections metadata to test the data model and data fields to see if the standard expresses the data accurately. And @mtrekels is using the magic of wikibase and his mad (wonderful) skills to visualize these metadata. We are already using “real” data to test, and will be gathering more (from various sources). It would be fantastic if OWC might share a copy of their data to test the data model. Meanwhile, we have some data, gathered in GRSciColl, IH, iDigBio, other collections, like the Field Museum, the Natural History Museum in London, Meise Botanic Garden, Naturalis, etc, that we can (and will use) to test and further develop the model.
You can see the kinds of data we are currently thinking we need / want to collect in the TDWG Collection Descriptions github website. We’d be happy to walk you through it and get your input too! https://github.com/tdwg/cd