Thank you Stefania. For the Extent Of Occurrence (EEO) where the geometry is the minimum convex polygon derived from species' presence points, is there a way to codify the occurrenceCategory? Indeed, within the EOO we don't know if  the species is actually present or not.

Similar issue applies to distribution map derived from statistical methods such as Species Distribution Models where the probability of presences of a species is mapped.

Hi Ludovico,

I suggest to use one of the categories of https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/CountingMethodValue

Kind regards, Dirk

Thank you Dirk. However, in this way, I'm forced to fill the information about OccurenceCategoryValue. For EEO which is only a geometrical representation of presence data, we do not know if the species is actually present within the polygon. Thus, I should fill the OccurenceCategoryValue as "present" and the countingMethod as "calculated".

However, I can't find a suitable countingUnit and the populationSize is unknown.

Hi Ludovico,

• OK to associate the href of the referenceSpeciesid (i.e. http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:305474) with the field of the shapefile through the Rename function. 

Regarding Hale warning, I guess you imported the EU-Nomen Code list in your project à now Hale is trying to validate the value you provided against values in imported code list but cannot do, because values for this code list are not in the INSPIRE registry (so actually Hale did not import them). Summing up: you can just disregard this warning from Hale.

• OK to associate the geom of the shapefile with the geometry of the target schema by the rename function (at least in theory it should work, however please check that Hale encodes correctly)

Regarding the spatialObject association, you don’t need to use it because you are providing the geometry from your source shapefile.

You might find useful to have a look at the following post:

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/forum/discussion/view/264427/good-practise-gml-example-for-species-distribution

Kind regards,

Stefania

Hi Stefania, thank you for your kind advice.

Ludovico

Hi Hanna, hi Kathi,

I guess both themes should be adressed: for cases like this the TWG Biodiversity has foreseen, that the grids should be pulished as SD with the (limited) information presence/absence and, like Kathie suggested, in addition for specific data users as EF Observation&Measurement data with all the details.

Best regards, Dirk

A short note: using EF, you can refer to the grid cells provided by SD as your featureOfInterest, so the area for which the species count applies

:)

Thank you for your help, Kathi and Dirk!

Looks promising. I will investigate this further along these links & info.

Have a nice weekend,

Hanna