A relationship of one rdfs:Resource (http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource) to another.

Resources can be thought of as identifiable records or instances of classes and may include, but need not be limited to dwc:Occurrence, dwc:Organism, dwc:MaterialSample, dwc:Event, dwc:Location, dwc:GeologicalContext, dwc:Identification, or dwc:Taxon.

Resource Relationship

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An instance of an Organism is the mother of another instance of an Organism. A uniquely identified Occurrence represents the same Occurrence as another uniquely identified Occurrence. A MaterialSample is a subsample of another MaterialSample.

This term was not deprecated from the dwc terms vocabulary, merely from the dwcterms ontology, because it is not needed here.