Element: Date
- Interpretation: The date associated with the creation or availability of the resource. This is not necessarily the same as the date in the Coverage element, which refers to the date or period of the resource’s intellectual content. For natural specimens, the value should be the date that the name in TITLE was given by CREATOR.
- Guideline Repeat DATE to express both the circa value and the range it represents according to your organization’s policy Repeat DATE to express both the time period during which the resource was brought into being and the specific date when it was [thought to be] first cataloged or collected