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TaxonName Profile

Version: 1.0-RELEASE (01 May 2023)


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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:

A name of that taxon without authorship and date information The name of the item.


 ONE
Marginality: Recommended.
author Organization
Person
 Schema:

Authorship and date information associated to this taxon name, formatted as per the numenclatural rules The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.


 MANY
sameAs URL
 Schema:

URL of additional sources for the dataset


 MANY
taxonRank PropertyValue
Text
URL
 Schema:

The taxonomic rank of this taxon given preferably as a URI from a controlled vocabulary – (typically the ranks from TDWG TaxonRank ontology or equivalent Wikidata URIs).


 MANY
url URL
 Schema:

Link to the webpage associated to this taxon URL of the item.


 ONE
Marginality: Optional.
additionalType URL
 Schema:

An equivalent TaxonName type from a well known vocabulary, e.g. TDWG: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#TaxonName 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.


 MANY
description Text
 Schema:

A description of the item.


 ONE
identifier PropertyValue
Text
URL
 Schema:

A PropertyValue should be used to relate the taxon name with counterpart identifiers within well known authorities such as GBIF, WoRMS, EoL etc. Wikidata properties may be used in this respect, e.g.: NCBI id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P685), GBIF id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P846), EoL id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P830), iNaturalist id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P3151), WoRMS id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P850), Fishbase id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P938), TAXREF id (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/P3186), … The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.


 ONE
isBasedOn Creativework
Product
URL
 Schema:

A CreativeWork, such as a scholarly article that coined the name or asserted its status A resource from which this work is derived or from which it is a modification or adaption. Supersedes isBasedOnUrl.


 MANY