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Term: original collection date

For use if the specimen is from a zoo, botanic garden, culture collection etc. and has a known original date of collection. In case no exact time is available, the date/time can be right truncated i.e. all of these are valid ISO8601 compliant times: 2008-01-23T19:23:10+00:00; 2008-01-23T19:23:10; 2008-01-23; 2008-01; 2008.

Syntax {date}
Example 41406
URL fairds:original_collection_date