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Taxon DRAFT Profile

Version: 0.1-DRAFT-2018_06_27 (27 June 2018)

Bioschemas specification for describing a biological taxon


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Key to specification table

CD = Cardinality

Property Expected Type Description CD Controlled Vocabulary Example
Marginality: Minimum.
@context URL Used to provide the context (namespaces) for the JSON-LD file.
Not needed in other serialisations.		 ONE
@type Text Schema.org/Bioschemas class for the resource declared using JSON-LD syntax. For other serialisations please use the appropriate mechanism.
While it is permissible to provide multiple types, it is preferred to use a single type.		 MANY Schema.org, Bioschemas
@id IRI Used to distinguish the resource being described in JSON-LD. For other serialisations use the appropriate approach. ONE
dct:conformsTo IRI Used to state the Bioschemas profile that the markup relates to. The versioned URL of the profile must be used.
Note that we use a CURIE in the table here but the full URL for Dublin Core terms must be used in the markup (http://purl.org/dc/terms/conformsTo), see example.		 ONE Bioschemas profile versioned URL
name Text
 Schema:

The name of the item.


Bioschemas:

Scientific name, possibly including authorship and date information of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) taxon. If the authorship and date information are not included, then they should be provided in the scientifiName property.

 ONE
Marginality: Recommended.
isContainedIn BioChemEntity
 Schema:

Indicates a BioChemEntity that this BioChemEntity is (in some sense) part of.


Bioschemas:

Direct, most proximate higher-rank parent taxon

 ONE
rank Text
 Bioschemas:

The taxonomic rank of this name

 ONE
taxonRank Text
 Bioschemas:

The taxonomic rank of this name

 ONE
url URL
 Schema:

URL of the item. BioChemEntity: Link to the official webpage associated to this entity.


Bioschemas:

Link to the webpage associated with this taxon

 ONE
Marginality: Optional.
additionalType URL
 Schema:

An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the ‘typeof’ attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally. BioChemEntity: Whenever a suitable profile exists, the profile type should be used in addition to the BioChemEntity type. Other additional types are always possible via the additionalType property. For instance, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PR_000000001 is the type used for the Protein profile but http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_010043 or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8054 can be used as an additionalType if that results useful somehow to the data providers.


Bioschemas:

A Taxon type from a well known vocabulary, e.g. DarwinCore http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Taxon or http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonConcept#TaxonConcept

 MANY
alternateName Text
 Schema:

An alias for the item.


Bioschemas:

Scientific name, possibly including authorship and date information, of a synonym of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) taxon.

 MANY
sameAs URL
 Schema:

URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item’s identity. E.g. the URL of the item’s Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.


Bioschemas:

URL of third-party webpages describing the same taxon

 MANY
scientificName Text
 Bioschemas:

Full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known

 ONE
scientificNameAuthorship Text
 Bioschemas:

Authorship information for the scientificName formatted according to the conventions of the applicable nomenclatural Code. Example: “(Torr.) J.T. Howell”, “(Martinovský) Tzvelev”, “(Györfi, 1952)”

 ONE
vernacularName Text
 Bioschemas:

A vernacular (common) name of the taxon

 MANY