Taxon Authority Review and Comment Page - Herbaria Extension
Review and Comment Instructions
This Review and Comment page is for the TAXON AUTHORITY. The taxon authority is used to define groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics, and give names to those groups.
- Review the fields present in the schema below, and ask the following questions in relation to your organization:
- Is this procedure necessary to manage my collections?
- If so, are all the fields needed to manage my collection present? If not, what would we need to add?
- Are there field that are not useful? If so, what would we delete?
- Contribute your comments to the project team via the comment box at the bottom of this page
- Stay tuned for further iterations as community critiques are factored in
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| CSpace Information Group | CSpace Field Name | CSpace Field Definition | CSpace Field Type | Field Repeatable? | Group Repeatable? | Controlled List Contents |
| Taxon term group | ||||||
| Taxon information | Taxon display name | The name of the taxon as seen by the end user. Recommendation: Use this field for the full name with author to help disambiguate terms with the same name. | Text | No | Yes | |
| Term formatted display name | A representation of the display name with rich text formatting, for onscreen display and/or printing, via the use of HTML or other markup; for instance, for italicizing or boldfacing distinct parts of the display name. Field introduced in version 3.2.1 | Text | No | |||
| Term name | Another form of the name available in the Taxonomy record editor. Recommendation: Use this field for an abbreviated form of the name (minus authors) that can be used in certain reports. | Text | No | |||
| Term language | An indication of the language of the term, particularly when the term is in a language other than the language of the catalog record. Recommendation: Hide this field because taxonomy has established international nomenclature standards. | Controlled list; static | No | Ancient Greek; Arabic; Armenian; Chinese; English; French; German; Hebrew; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Latin; Malaysian; Middle English; Old English; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Spanish; Swahili; Swedish; Tagalog; Yoruba | ||
| Term preferred for language | Flag indicating that the term is the preferred form for the term language. Recommendation: Hide this field because taxonomy has established international nomenclature standards. | Check box | No | |||
| Term type | An indication of the type of term to be used if the authority is intended to be compliant with standards for thesaurus construction. Recommendation: Hide this field because taxonomy has established international nomenclature standards. | Controlled list; static | No | descriptor; alternate descriptor; used for term | ||
| Term qualifier | Word or phrase used primarily to distinguish between homographs. | Text | No | |||
| Term source | A reference to a bibliographic source or unpublished document that provides the warrant for a particular term. (e.g., IPNI) | Text | No | |||
| Term source unique id | Unique identifier assigned to the term by the source recorded in the Term Source field. Recommendation: Use this for the code available in the term source for this taxonomic term. (e.g. IPNI code) | Text | No | |||
| Term source detail | Page number, volume, date accessed for Web sites, and any other information indicating where in the source the term was found. Recommendation: Use this field for a globally unique identifier published by the source. | Text | No | |||
| Term source note | Notes or comments about the source | Text | No | |||
| Term status | A field noting the status of a term in a vocabulary, whether provisional or accepted. | Controlled list; static | No | provisional; under review; accepted; rejected | ||
| Taxonomic status | Status in the literature, e.g., "valid", "invalid" | Controlled list; static | No | valid; invalid; misapplied; accepted; synonym; illegitimate | ||
| Rank | The taxonomic rank of the item | Controlled list; static | No | unknown; class; cultivar; division; family; form; genus; grex; group; kingdom; nothomorph; order; proles; race; section; series; species; subclass; subdivision; subfamily; subform; subgenus; subkingdom; suborder; subsection; subseries; subspecies; subtribe; subvariety; tribe; variety | ||
| Major group | Controlled list; static | No | Spermatophytes; Pteridophytes; Algae; Bryophytes; Fungi; Liches; n/a; Misc | |||
| Family | Taxon authority | No | ||||
| Taxon currency | How current is this form for the taxon | Controlled list; static | No | current; obsolete; archaic | ||
| Author | Person designated as author of taxon | Person Authority | No | Yes | ||
| Author type | parenthetical, ascribed, etc. | Controlled list; static | No | author; ascribed author; parenthetical author; parenthetical ascribed author | ||
| Year | Year taxon was named by author | Year (4-digit) | No | |||
| Citations | Publication that cites original taxon description | Citation Authority | Yes | |||
| Named hybrid | Indicates this is a named hybrid accepted in the literature | Boolean | No | |||
| Basionym | Taxon authority | |||||
| Notes | General notes | Text | No | |||
| Common name | Common names associated with this scientific name | Taxon authority | No | Yes | ||
| Language | An indication of the language of the common name | Controlled list | No | Ancient Greek; Arabic; Armenian; Chinese; English; French; German; Hebrew; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Latin; Malaysian; Middle English; Old English; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Spanish; Swahili; Swedish; Tagalog; Yoruba | ||
| Source | A reference to a bibliographic source or unpublished work documenting that this common name applies to this scientific name | Text | No | |||
| Source detail | Page number, volume, date accessed for Web sites, and any other information indicating where in the source the term was found. | Text | No | |||
| Related term | Common names associated with this scientific name | Taxon authority | No | Yes | ||
| Type | An indication of the language of the common name | Controlled list; static | No | synonym; female hybrid parent; male hybrid parent | ||
| Source | A reference to a bibliographic source or unpublished work documenting that this common name applies to this scientific name | Text | No | |||
| Source detail | Page number, volume, date accessed for Web sites, and any other information indicating where in the source the term was found. | Text | No |