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)

Franck Michel

Leyla Garcia

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: 0.3-RELEASE-2018_11_10

Latest draft: 0.4-DRAFT-2019_06_24

Previous profiles

Previous version: none

Group	Use Cases	Cross Walk	Task & Issues	Examples	Live Deploys
Biodiversity

You can read the release version of this specification here.

Key to specification table

Schema.org properties where the Expected Types have been changed, or new (i.e., Bioschemas created) properties/types are green.

Schema.org properties/types are red.

Pending Schema.org properties/types are blue.

External (i.e., from 3rd party ontology) properties/types are black.

CD = Cardinality

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//Property: additionalType
{
    "@type" : [ "BioChemEntity", "Taxon" ],
    "additionalType": "dwc:Taxon"
}


//Property: alternateName
{
    "name": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)",
    "alternateName": "Balaena albicans Muller, 1776"
}


//Property: name
{
    "name": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)",
    "alternateName": "Balaena albicans Muller, 1776"
}


//Property: rank
{
    "dwc:taxonRank": "species",    
    "tc:rank": "http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonRank#Species",
}


//Property: sameAs
{
    "sameAs": [
        "http://eol.org/pages/328541",
        "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beluga_whale",
        "http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/details/species/id/6850357",
        "http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6335"
    ]
}


//Property: scientificName
{
    "dwc:scientificName": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)",
    "dwc:scientificNameAuthorship": "(Pallas, 1776)"
}


//Property: scientificNameAuthorship
{
    "dwc:scientificName": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)",
    "dwc:scientificNameAuthorship": "(Pallas, 1776)"
}


//Property: taxonRank
{
    "dwc:taxonRank": "species",    
    "tc:rank": "http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonRank#Species",
}


//Property: vernacularName
{
    "dwc:vernacularName": [
        { "@language": "en", "@value": "Beluga Whale" },
        { "@language": "fr", "@value": "Bélouga" }
    ]
}

Property	Expected Type	Description	CD	Example
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	View ≪name≫ example Property ≪name≫ example `{ "name": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)", "alternateName": "Balaena albicans Muller, 1776" }`
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	View ≪rank≫ example Property ≪rank≫ example `{ "dwc:taxonRank": "species", "tc:rank": "http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonRank#Species", }`
taxonRank	Text	Bioschemas: The taxonomic rank of this name	ONE	View ≪taxonRank≫ example Property ≪taxonRank≫ example `{ "dwc:taxonRank": "species", "tc:rank": "http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonRank#Species", }`
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	View ≪additionalType≫ example Property ≪additionalType≫ example `{ "@type" : [ "BioChemEntity", "Taxon" ], "additionalType": "dwc:Taxon" }`
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	View ≪alternateName≫ example Property ≪alternateName≫ example `{ "name": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)", "alternateName": "Balaena albicans Muller, 1776" }`
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	View ≪sameAs≫ example Property ≪sameAs≫ example `{ "sameAs": [ "http://eol.org/pages/328541", "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beluga_whale", "http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/details/species/id/6850357", "http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6335" ] }`
scientificName	Text	Bioschemas: Full scientific name, with authorship and date information if known	ONE	View ≪scientificName≫ example Property ≪scientificName≫ example `{ "dwc:scientificName": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)", "dwc:scientificNameAuthorship": "(Pallas, 1776)" }`
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	View ≪scientificNameAuthorship≫ example Property ≪scientificNameAuthorship≫ example `{ "dwc:scientificName": "Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)", "dwc:scientificNameAuthorship": "(Pallas, 1776)" }`
vernacularName	Text	Bioschemas: A vernacular (common) name of the taxon	MANY	View ≪vernacularName≫ example Property ≪vernacularName≫ example `{ "dwc:vernacularName": [ { "@language": "en", "@value": "Beluga Whale" }, { "@language": "fr", "@value": "Bélouga" } ] }`