Property:description

[mtrekels]

Label	Description
Definition	An account of the resource.
Usage	A free text description or narrative about the collection.
Existing property	dc:description
Existing class
Existing property identifier	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description
Format	Text
Required	no
Repeatable	no
Constraints	May not be the only/major populated field in the record
Examples	The Chicago Academy of Sciences holds material documenting the biodiversity of Midwest / Western Great Lakes region from the 1830s to the present, and includes comparative and historic material collected across North America. These collections include zoology, botany, earth sciences, cultural, audiovisual, and archives. The institutional collection code CHAS was used historically to reference vertebrate and malacology collections at the Academy and was designated as the primary collection code for all the collections.
Notes	Use this field to record information about the collection in a human-readable, narrative style to introduce the main characteristics of the collection to someone unfamiliar to it. It may include additional information or re-state information held elsewhere in the collection description record - for example, for more atomic, categorised textual descriptions and narratives the MeasurementOrFact class should be used.

[ianengelbrecht]

Same as my comment on cd:name, perhaps the term could be more specific, i.e. cd:collectionDescription?

[mswoodburn]

Hi @ianengelbrecht - thanks for the suggestion, we discussed it in the group but in this instance we think it's better to leave it as 'description', to avoid it being conflated with the overall 'collection description' concept, and being tempted to cram all the data into this property rather than atomising into appropriate properties.

[essvee]

I'm struggling to see much difference between this and #62 (og.thematicFocus) - do we need them both?

[fmjjones]

I think we need all 3 (Description, Name and thematicFocus). Description is a longer narrative of the collection, the Name is a reference to historically recognized formed collections that exist is larger collections and thematicFocus is a shorter text describing the "strengths" of the collection.