Comparison of Data Models Supporting Multiple Taxonomies
Field by field comparisons of models are also available:
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FGDC: 19 data structures cover 19 of 20 |
Nomencurator: 5 data structures cover 20 of 20 |
IOPI
9 data structures cover 16 of 20 |
Prometheus: 9 data structures cover 12 of 20 |
Pisces II: 7 data structures cover 14 of 20 |
TD | CD | Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCIENTIFIC NAME | ScientificName | Plant Name | Nomenclatural Taxon | TAXONNAME | I |
D |
Prometheus also gives status of the scientific name |
| SCIENTIFIC NAME- REFERENCE |
specified by the Publication pointed by Appearance referring to authoriy NameRecord of the ScientificName | not direct support but can be captured by combination of AscribedName and Publication via a Circumsribed Taxon | I |
I |
name-authority combination, i.e. a special case of potential taxon sensu Berendsohn (1995) | ||
| SCIENTIFIC NAME SPELLING |
name apperance recroded in the Appearance referring to a NameRecord associated with the ScientificName | Potential Taxon Name | can be captrued by associations beteeen Nomenclatural Taxons | D |
D |
list of scientific name with its variants list | |
| PARTY- CIRCUMSCRIPTION |
Annotation | Referenced Status Assignation and Status Type Detail | captured by combination of Author and Circumsribed Taxon | D |
I |
potential taxon cncept sensu Berendsohn (1997). circumscription-recognition recorder....but how can we pick it up without such as publications? | |
| PARTY-USAGE | An Annotation by the "party" specified by a set of Authors on NameRecord representing the ScientificName usage of interest | not supported and deprecatd | D |
I |
recognition of a particular name usage by a particular PARTY. potential taxon cncept sensu Berendsohn (1995). | ||
| PARTY USAGE STATUS |
unsupported | N/A | D |
? | combination of scientific name, circumscription and rank with date of recognition and status given by a PARTY. It sounds combination of NameRecord (name, circumscription, rank and date via publication) and Annotation (statement) | ||
| PARTY CIRCUMSCRIPTION- REFERENCE |
NameRecord and Annotation | I |
I |
it enables to track history of a PARTY's opinion on a circumscription by party circumscription reference comments attribute which works like Appearance object | |||
| PARTY CIRCUMSCRIPTION- STATUS |
An Annotation by the "party" specified by a set of Authors on a NameRecord | D |
I |
opinion of a specific PARTY on a specific circumscription; is it status, or statement? PARTY may change their opinion later with understanding of the world.... | |||
| USAGE |
NameRecord
basically; initial usage indicator of USAGE can be recoverd from the network of NameRecords and Annotations |
D |
D |
sensu modifier attribute is captured Annotation (and Apperanace) in Nomencurator | |||
| PARTY USAGE- SPELLING |
given as
Annotation
on the
ScientificName
of interest
by the "party" specified by a set of
Authors
|
Potential Taxon Name |
Depends on data forms. With circumscription, i.e. vaouchered data, AscribedName of a Circumsribed Taxon linked to the Nomenclatural Taxon of interest |
I |
D |
is it necessary to be separated from PARTY USAGE? | |
| CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK | A graph of hierarchies of NameRecords | A graph of Potential Taxon Name | A graph of Circumsribed Taxa | D |
D |
May be considerd as a Code specifier, or, taxonomic views specified by the top taxon | |
| LINEAGE | Annotations and NameRecords, with meaning slightly diffrent from CORRELATION | N/A | N/A (must be calcurated from Circumsribed Taxa to be compared) | D |
I |
special cases of CORREALATION. reasoning of LINEAGE must be given as "link type" between NameRecords held by Annotation | |
| CORRELATION | TAXONNAMEEXCERPT? | - |
I |
giving summary of relationships between taxonomic views; yet another taxonomic opinion, or at least interpretation, however. | |||
| CIRCUMSCRIPTION | hierarchy of NameRecords, but differs from waht FGDC's CIRCUMSCRIPTION means | A graph of Potential Taxon Name | Circumscription, but differs from waht FGDC's CIRCUMSCRIPTION means | combination of OrigTaxonRefID and AcceptedTaxonRefID of TAXONNAME | D |
I |
Different meaning in FGDC from othrs. FGDC model defines it as "the diagnostic limit separating the individuals that belong to a taxon from all other individuals", even though CIRCUMSCRIPTION does not have fields to capture it. Instead, it provies a link between a "circumscription" and the "initical circumscription" of a taxon, just like fields in TAXONNAME of Pisces-II. Prometheus captures a circumscription by set of evidences (i.e. specimens) used in the formulation of the concept. Nomencurator supports circumscription sensu Prometheus by NameRecord hierarchy not only for specimens but also any taxa composing a higher taxaon to capture situation where authors of papers mentions on taxa appeared in previous publications. In other wrods, Nomencurator covers usages of names, or assertion (terminology by Richard Pyle) |
| SCIENTIFIC NAME- FRAMEWORK LEVEL |
specified by rank of authoriy NameRecord of the ScientificName | Name Rank | Rank | LSITTAXONRANK | D |
D |
who determines this rank? how? whose view is this? |
| CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK LEVEL | not centralised as FGDC but an attribute of a NameRecord | D |
D |
also used to map multiple taxnomies onto single taxonoic level scheme in FGDC. Nomencurator holds it as stated in publicatin to allow multiple taxnomic schemes. | |||
| REFERENCE | An Apperance and its referring Publication | Reference Title and Reference Detail | Publication | REFERENCE | I |
I |
of course it includes unpublished work (but it must be able to be cited) |
| PARTY | set of Authors | Person Team and Person Team Membership List | set of Authors | REFAUTHOR, a set of AGENTs | D |
I |
an individual or organisation (e.g., institution, agency, office, department); it is unnecessary for an organisation to have a cohelent classification system except specimen storege. it would be chached meta data. |
| BIODIVERSITY UNIT | linkage between NameRecord of a species (or lower) and of specimen | beyonds scope | beyonds scope or Circumscribed Taxon (CT) and Specimen? | DETERMINATION? | D |
I |
information other than name |
| unspecified; see other data of BIODIVERSITY UNIT |
as specimen ID; detailed infiormation of specimen is beyonds scope, but can be covered by an linkage to exteranal database | Specimen | OBJECT | D |
I |
its structure strongly depends on taxa |