@fcarvalhopacheco That is an invalid Standard Name as it includes a taxon name. What you need is an array with taxon as one of its dimensions containing the abundances with the Standard Name number_concentration_of_biological_taxon_in_sea_water. The taxon co-ordinate has two vectors with Standard Names biological_taxon_name and biological_taxon_lsid (currently erroneously called biological_taxon_identifier - the subject of this defect, which will hopefully be fixed in the near future) carrying the text name and the LSID for each taxon. This means we don't need 200 Standard Names for a dataset with abundances of 200 taxa. WoRMS is the preferred authority for marine organism LSIDs. Think of the data as a spreadsheet with abundances in the cells and columns called biological_taxon_name and biological_taxon_LSID
There's a skeleton example in Section 6.1.2 of the Conventions Document version 1.8. There is a complication in cases where the data set contains data for biological entities that aren't taxa such as picophytoplankton. Each of these needs its own Standard Name for each measurement. I'm not totally comfortable with this. When I started setting up the taxon conventions back in 2013 I wanted all biological entities to be allowed, but this was rejected because they would be unconstrained plaintext labels and this was considered too loose for CF. A suggestion to constrain against the S25 vocabulary with BODC as the authority was also not well received. In the past few weeks I looked for support to treat all biological entities as taxa but got none and am not in a position to try to take it forward myself. Does that help? -- 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/308#issuecomment-742470449 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].
