Hi Tim, The Trac ticket this is based on has been running for years. My primary motivation for proposing it was to establish taxon identifiers as a dimension so we didn't end up with a Standard Name for the abundance of every taxon in the ocean. The proposal is aimed at tagging measurements with either AphiaIDs or ITIS TSNs, which is totally in line with your thinking.
The LSID entered the equation as the only method I could find at the outset to enable these identifiers to be encoded as URLs. There may be better ways of doing this developed in the last few years or in the future. BTW thanks for bringing the LSID URL root up to date. The way I designed things was that URL-derivation updates could be implemented as small changes to the CF Conventions text with no consequences for encoded data. I really appreciate your making it clear that you are not requesting change in the proposal now - it's taken a lot of effort to get this far. Let's get the basic principle of establishing taxon identifiers as an auxilliary co-ordinate into CF plus the adoption of WorMS and ITIS for marking up data. Once this is established we can open a future ticket to discuss the optimal strategy for URL derivations from markup identifiers. -- 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#issuecomment-560540020 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].
