continent

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Darwin Core

Term name

continent

Definition

The name of the continent in which the Location occurs. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names or the ISO 3166 Continent code.

Apple Core

Recommendation

As Applicable

Guidelines

GUIDELINES

Controlled vocabulary

use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names at http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/

Usage examples

  • Canada

Other resources

LINKS TO RESOURCES, PERHAPS WITH EXPLANATION