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.

obsolete selecting process

A process by which a person or machine decides that a particular material entity as worthy of collection or observation.

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Filtering sea water to extract only organisms smaller than a certain size.

deciding which branch to collect for a herbarium specimen