Latimer Core
Latimer Core (LtC) is a data standard for describing collections, proposed by the Collection Descriptions Task Group. It has been designed to support the representation and discovery of groups of items that are encompassed in collections and their subcomponents. The LtC classes and their properties (collectively called terms) aim to represent information that describes these groups of things in enough detail to inform more profound discovery of the resources they contain.
The Latimer Core Maintenance Group is currently responsible for actively maintaining the Latimer Core standard per Section 2.1 of the TDWG Vocabulary Maintenance Specification. The group consists of the following members:
- Jutta Buschbom - Statistical Genetics, Ahrensburg, Germany jutta.buschbom@statistical-genetics.de
- Sharon Grant - Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA sgrant@fieldmuseum.org
- Janeen Jones - Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA jjones@fieldmuseum.org
- Ben Norton - Independent, USA michaelnorton.ben@gmail.com
- Elie Saliba - Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France elie.saliba@mnhn.fr
- Maarten Trekels - Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium maarten.trekels@plantentuinmeise.be
- Kate Webbink - Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA kwebbink@fieldmuseum.org
Getting started
- Normative Term List
- Quick Reference Guide
- The LtC Wiki provides an overview of Latimer Core's structure and purpose
- See how classes fit together in the Standard Browser.
- Add or join a Discussion