Multiple values for a DarwinCore Archive field like reproductiveCondition

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We’re considering adding values for the http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/reproductiveCondition field in iNaturalist’s DarwinCore Archives. Assuming GBIF uses that field, how should we specify multiple values? For example, if an observation shows a plant that has both flowers and fruit, it might have annotations on iNat of Flowering and Fruiting. In the DwC-A CSV should we could specify that as pipe-separated values, e.g. Flowering|Fruiting, or as something else. I guess there are a few questions here

  1. Does GBIF use the reproductiveCondition field?
  2. Are multiple values supported for this field or any field?
  3. What is the convention for specifying multiple values?
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Thanks, @kueda - please add it with pipe separation (| is the general recommendation from DwC for all multi-value fields).

It’s not a searchable term in GBIF today but will show on records and be available in downloads.
It could become searchable as data and demand grow though.

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Cool, lifeStage, sex, and reproductiveCondition are now in our DwC-A and have been integrated into GBIF. Occurrence Detail 1838025153 is an example showing two of them, and you can now search for caterpillars from iNat.

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Great.

If it helps, we manage the LifeStage vocabulary here. Please shout if you see concepts missing, or wish to use that content from the API.

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