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Taxonomy fields - Darwin Core Hour Input Form 2/16/2017 16:22:16 #48
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Hi Jess,
Darwin Core supports a small subset of the Linnaean ranks - those that the
community has settled on (so far) as essential. One way to deal with the
problems of incomplete mapping (ranks missing in Darwin Core) and clades
that do not correspond nicely with ranks is to capture the classification
of interest in the Darwin Core field higherClassification (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#higherClassification). Since the
recommendation is for the field to contain the list of names (separated by
' | '), one can propagate all of them without loss (and/but) without
reference to rank. Thus, one could capture the entire Paleobiology Database
classification for Mammut as
Eucarya | Opisthokonta | Metazoa | Eumetazoa | Triploblastica | Nephrozoa |
Deuterostomia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Gnathostomata | Osteichthyes |
Sarcopterygii | Dipnotetrapodomorpha | Tetrapodomorpha | Tetrapoda |
Reptiliomorpha | Anthracosauria | Batrachosauria | Cotylosauria | Amniota |
Synapsida | Therapsida | Cynodontia | Epicynodontia | Eucynodontia |
Probainognathia | Mammaliamorpha | Mammaliaformes | Mammalia | Theriamorpha
| Theriiformes | Trechnotheria | Cladotheria | Boreosphenida | Theria |
Eutheria | Placentalia | Afrotheria | Pseudoungulata | Paenungulata |
Tethytheria | Proboscidea | Elephantiformes | Elephantimorpha | Mammutida |
Mammutidae | Mammut
along with populating the atomized taxonomy fields with values that
correspond to those ranks, namely,
class = "Mammalia"
order = "Proboscidea"
family = "Mammutidae"
genus = "Mammut"
scientificNameAuthorship = "Blumenbach 1799"
namePublishedIn = "Handb. Naturg., ed. 6, 698."
namePublishedInYear = "1799"
taxonRank = "genus"
nomenclaturalCode = "ICZN"
taxonomicStatus = "accepted"
vernacularName = "mastodon"
In terms of search-ability, this recommendation preserves all the names,
making it theoretically possible to search for any of them in an
environment that supports full-text or substring searches that include the
higherClassification field.
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Taxonomy fields - Darwin Core Hour Input Form 2/16/2017 16:22:16
Feb 25, 2017
Follow up. Will be good to include this information in the webinar being planned by Talia Karim and Virginia Scott (in early 2018) See. VertNet/dwc-qa-manage#20 |
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Please provide a topic of interest: Best practices for handling the taxonomy fields when meshing paleo- and neontological data creates weirdnesses due to the Linnaean ranking system. How do we optimize searchability without making things overly complicated or scrapping ranks entirely (since that would be a nightmare)?
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