Change term - vernacularName

[nielsklazenga]

Term change

• Submitter: Niels Klazenga
• Efficacy Justification (why is this change necessary?): The current definition is self-referencing (so not a definition).
• Demand Justification (if the change is semantic in nature, name at least two organizations that independently need this term): The current definition is self-referencing (so not a definition).
• Stability Justification (what concerns are there that this might affect existing implementations?): The proposed change only changes the words of the definition, not the meaning, so will not affect existing applications.
• Implications for dwciri: namespace (does this change affect a dwciri term version)?: There is no equivalent term in the dwciri namespace. The proposed definition is what we are going with at the moment for the IRI equivalent in TCS (property: vernacularName tcs2#10).

https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_vernacularName

Current definition: A common or vernacular name.
Proposed definition: Name for an organism or organisms in a language used for general purposes.

[qgroom]

Your proposed definition is also self-referencing.
Also, vernacular names are not necessarily used for general purposes.

A term used in a language to refer to a taxon, often varying by region or community and distinct from its scientific designation.

[nielsklazenga]

@qgroom, it is not and it is the language that is used for general purposes. It is also not really my definition, as I took the first part of the definition in Hawksworth 2010.

[tucotuco]

Is "organism" the right target for the term? dwc:vernacularName is currently organized in the dwc:Taxon class and so these names are alternative names for something taxonomic. I would like to avoid confusion of a dwc:Taxon term also being a dwc:Organism term. It is clearly not the latter.

[nielsklazenga]

Yes, that is an issue for me too. The 'organism' is not such a problem in TCS, but it still does not sound right (actually, as TCS is meant to complement Darwin Core, it is just as big an issue in TCS). I am happy to replace 'organism or organisms' with 'taxon'. In Darwin Core you could use 'dwc:Taxon', which would be a bit of an issue for TCS, as we borrow the Darwin Core term in TCS where it is used on a tcs:TaxonConcept (the tcs:vernacularName is an IRI property ).