Taxon DRAFT Profile
Version: 0.5-DRAFT-2020_04_06 (06 April 2020)
Bioschemas profile 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 > Taxon
Description
This profile aims to denote a taxon by common properties such as its scientific name, taxonomic rank and vernacular names. It is also a means to link to existing taxonomic registers where each taxon has a URI.
Summary of Changes
Changes in 0.5:- remove hasCategoryCode see issue 408
Latest profiles
Latest release: 0.6-RELEASE
Latest draft: 0.7-DRAFT
Previous profiles
Previous version: 0.4-DRAFT-2019_06_24
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: Currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) name for that taxon, with authorship and date information if known. |
ONE |
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taxonRank |
PropertyValue Text URL |
Schema: The taxonomic rank of this taxon given preferably as a URI from a controlled vocabulary (e.g. the ranks from TDWG TaxonRank ontology or equivalent Wikidata URIs) |
MANY |
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Marginality: Recommended. | |||||
parentTaxon |
Taxon Text URL |
Schema: Closest parent taxon of the taxon in question. Inverse property: childTaxon Bioschemas: Direct, most proximate higher-rank parent taxon |
ONE |
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url |
URL |
Schema: URL of the item. Bioschemas: Link to the webpage associated to 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. 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, with authorship and date information if known, of a synonym of the currently valid (zoological) or accepted (botanical) name. |
MANY |
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childTaxon |
Taxon Text URL |
Schema: Closest child taxa of the taxon in question. Inverse property: parentTaxon Bioschemas: Direct, most proximate lower-rank child taxa |
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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vernacularName |
Text |
Bioschemas: A vernacular (common) name of the taxon |
MANY |
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