Taxon DRAFT Profile
Version: 0.1-DRAFT-2018_06_27 (27 June 2018)
Bioschemas specification for describing a biological taxon
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Contributors
The following people have been involved in the creation of this specification document. They are all members of the Biodiversity group.
Group Leader(s)
Other team members
Schema.org hierarchy
This Profile fits into the schema.org hierarchy as follows:Thing > BioChemEntity
Description
This profile aims to denote a taxon by common properties such as its scientific name, authority, taxonomic rank and vernacular names. It is also a means to link to existing taxonomic registers where each taxon has a URI.
Latest profiles
Latest release: 0.6-RELEASE
Latest draft: 0.7-DRAFT
Previous profiles
Previous version: none
Group | Use Cases | Cross Walk | Task & Issues | Examples | Live Deploys |
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Biodiversity |
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You can read the release version of this specification here.
Key to specification table
- Green properties/types are proposed by Bioschemas, or indicate proposed changes by Bioschemas to Schema.org
- Red properties/types exist in the core of Schema.org
- Blue properties/types exist in the pending area of Schema.org
- Black properties/types are reused from external vocabularies/ontologies
CD = Cardinality
Property | Expected Type | Description | CD | Controlled Vocabulary | Example |
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Marginality: Minimum. | |||||
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 |
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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 |
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taxonRank |
Text |
Bioschemas: The taxonomic rank of this name |
ONE |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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scientificName |
Text |
Bioschemas: Full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known |
ONE |
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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 |
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vernacularName |
Text |
Bioschemas: A vernacular (common) name of the taxon |
MANY |
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