#99: Taxon Names and Identifiers
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Reporter: lowry | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by martin.juckes):
Hello, I've come to this for the first time today, so apologies if I have
missed some points already discussed. This contribution is motivated by an
email by Roy to the CF list. The general approach looks good, but I'd like
to propose a few modifications.
(1) The implied constraint relating taxon_name and taxon_identifier in the
current proposal looks untidy to me (the relationship is implied by the
fact that they both occur as coordinates of abundance). I suggest a slight
modification to place the identifier as a coordinate of the taxon_name
array, making the taxon_name array a self-contained structure.
(2) taxonomy is a broader science, but "taxon" is a term only used widely
in the biological sciences. the proposed is well defined, but I think it
would be clearer if the biological nature of the taxonomy was explicitly
stated in the standard name:
number_concentration_of_biological_taxon_in_sea_water
(3) there should be some reference to the classification system being used
.. and perhaps that should be restricted to a small collection of approved
systems. This would then be another coordinate with a standard name such
as "reference_classification";
{{{
float abundance(time,taxon);
abundance:standard_name="number_concentration_of_biological_taxon_in_sea_water";
abundance:coordinates="name";
char name(taxon,string80);
name:standard_name="taxon_name";
name:coordinates="identifier classification";
char classification(string80);
classification:standard_name="reference_classification";
char identifier(taxon,string80);
identifier:standard_name="taxon_identifier";
}}}
cheers,
Martin
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