First thing to say is that this ticket is intimately linked to #308 which exposed that biological_taxon_identifer was set up in error - it should have been biological_taxon_lsid. The suggested fix is that biological_taxon_identifier be deprecated and aliased to biological_taxon_lsid.
This request resurrects a discussion on Trac that ran for considerable time and takes the position back at the beginning of that discussion. In a nutshell the initial name proposals were criticised as being too parochial for a multidisciplinary standard like CF. Whilst scientificName works in Darwin Core - a biological standard - there's nothing to tell a non-biologist that scientific_name relates to biology. My suggestion as a compromise would be to include specific references to the Darwin Core labels in the description. For biological_taxon_name I would suggest: "Biological taxon" is a name or other label identifying an organism or a group of organisms as belonging to a unit of classification in a hierarchical taxonomy. The quantity with standard name biological_taxon_name is the human-readable label for the taxon such as Calanus finmarchicus. The label should be registered in either WoRMS (http://www.marinespecies.org) or ITIS (https://www.itis.gov/) and spelled exactly as registered. See Section 6.1.2 of the CF convention (version 1.8 or later) for information about biological taxon auxiliary coordinate variables. This is equivalent scientificName in the Darwin Core standard. I'll do something similar for biological_taxon_lsid when I set that up. @davidhassell You can compose messages quicker than me but we're saying the same thing!!! -- 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/309#issuecomment-731100870 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].
