Example of specifications in full text vs whip. See http://github.com/inbo/whip for more info.

specification.md

Our specifications

occurrenceID

Every record should have an occurrenceID.

basisOfRecord

Accepted values:

HumanObservation
PreservedSpecimen
Occurrence

eventDate

Express dates in the ISO 8601 standard, e.g.:

2016
2016-12
2016-12-06

Date ranges are not accepted

Dates have to be between 1830 and 2014.

coordinates

Values need to be a decimal number.

Values need to have exactly 5 decimals.

decimalLatitude

Between 50.68 and 51.51 (within Flanders, Belgium)

decimalLongitude

Between 2.54 and 5.92 (within Flanders, Belgium)

recordedBy

Observers are anonymized to their ID. Use the format: observerID:1CF3F4.

The ID itself does not contain more than 6 characters.

If there are more than one observer, delimite these with space pipe space: |

specification.yaml

occurrenceID:
 empty: False # Every record should have an occurrenceID.

basisOfRecord:
 allowed: [HumanObservation, PreservedSpecimen, Occurrence]

eventDate:
 dateformat: ['%Y-%m-%d', '%Y-%m', '%Y'] # The ISO8601 format, but no ranges
 mindate: 1830-01-01
 maxdate: 2014-12-31

decimalLatitude:
 numberformat: '.5'
 # Coordinates are within Flanders, Belgium
 min: 50.68
 max: 51.51

decimalLongitude:
 numberformat: '.5'
 # Coordinates are within Flanders, Belgium
 min: 2.54
 max: 5.92

recordedBy:
 delimitedvalues:
   delimiter: " | " # Observers are delimited with space pipe space
   regex: 'observerID:.+'
   maxlength: 17 # ID contains 6 characters (11 for observerID: + 6 for ID itself)

## Additional tests, not expressed in the Markdown documentation.

individualCount:
 numberformat: x
 min: 1
 max: 200
 
type:
 if:
   - basisOfRecord:
       allowed: HumanObservation
     allowed: Event
   - basisOfRecord:
       allowed: PreservedSpecimen
     allowed: PhysicalObject
   - basisOfRecord:
       allowed: Occurrence
     allowed: Text