@albenson-usgs A question that's more related to other tickets, but I'll ask it here. How would Darwin Core deal with datasets that include a mixture of true taxa (e.g. Calanus finmarchicus) with functional/morphological groups such as 'prokaryotes', 'nanophytoplankton'? This relates to some concerns I'm having with some other Standard Name tickets (86 and 87). CF is heading down a road of using one convention for taxa (a multi-dimensional storage array with taxon identifiers as a co-ordinate under a single Standard Name) and another for functional/morphological groups (a separate array for each group each with its own Standard Name).
Ticket 86 proposes a further tranche of functional group Standard Names but it includes 'dinoflagellates' (a common name for a Class) and Prochlorococcus (a scientific name for a Genus) mixed in with things like 'cryptophytes' and 'haptophytes'. Would Darwin Core allow entries like 'cryptophytes' under scientificName? If not, how would they be stored under Darwin Core. -- 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-731210816 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].
