This term is obsolete
术语信息
comment
The criteria for selection may be specified in a protocol or may be ad hoc. Should be replaced by OBI:selection, but first OBI needs to fix the definition.
definition
A process by which a person or machine decides that a particular material entity as worthy of collection or observation.
example of usage
Filtering sea water to extract only organisms smaller than a certain size.
deciding which branch to collect for a herbarium specimen