the three categories in this vocabulary are only applicable to specimens that represent living or once living sampled features. If that is the extent of the scope, we certainly shouldn't give the vocabulary a general name like 'materialSample', perhaps 'biodiversitySampleType', or 'DWC_SampleType'. For a broader view of kinds of material samples see Specimen Type, Material Type and Sample Feature Type for three different approaches to 'typing' samples.
the three categories in this vocabulary are only applicable to specimens that represent living or once living sampled features. If that is the extent of the scope, we certainly shouldn't give the vocabulary a general name like 'materialSample', perhaps 'biodiversitySampleType', or 'DWC_SampleType'. For a broader view of kinds of material samples see Specimen Type, Material Type and Sample Feature Type for three different approaches to 'typing' samples.