**Title:** Taxon Names and Identifiers **Moderator:** @davidhassell **Moderator Status Review [last updated: 2019-12-02]:** Converted from accepted Trac ticket 99 to GitHub issue. **Requirement Summary:** **Technical Proposal Summary:** Add support for better handling of biological taxa data **Benefits:** **Status Quo:** **Detailed Proposal:**
### Complete proposal The complete proposal is for a stand-alone new section (`6.1.2`), that is contained in pull request #TBD This issue was resolved as accepted in the old Trac system about a year ago, at the time of the transition to GitHUb, but didn't get converted to a pull request. This issue addresses this. The previous discussion and evolution of this issue may be read in full at https://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/99 The Trac ticket's original contributors are still happy with the proposal in it's pull request form, and therefore if there are no further comments (which would be welcome, of course! - but please read the history in Trac first), this issue can therefore be accepted after the usual three weeks. ### Consequences for Standard Names The following new Standard Names are required to describe the label variables and to support the bacterial data request that inspired the creation of this ticket. `taxon_name`: The human-readable label for the taxon such as Calanus finmarchicus. The label should be registered in either WoRMS or ITIS and spelled exactly as registered. `taxon_identifier`: The machine-readable identifier for the taxon registration in either WoRMS (the AphiaID) or ITIS (the taxonomic serial number or TSN), including namespace. The namespace strings are 'aphia:' or 'tsn:'. For example, Calanus finmarchicus is encoded as either 'aphia:104464' or 'tsn:85272'. For the marine domain WoRMS has more complete coverage and so aphia Ids are preferred. `colony_forming_unit_number_concentration_of_taxon_in_sea_water`: "Colony Forming Unit" means an estimate of the viable bacterial or fungal numbers determined by counting colonies grown from a sample. "Number concentration" means the number of particles or other specified objects per unit volume. "Taxon" means an organism named in the taxon_name and taxon_identifier variables. `number_concentration_of_taxon_in_sea_water`: "Number concentration" means the number of particles or other specified objects per unit volume. "Taxon" means an organism named in the taxon_name and taxon_identifier variables. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/218 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
