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Teleconference 6 7 March 2019

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Participants

  • March 6, 8 pm UTC meeting: Stan Blum, Anne Fuchs, Jeff Gerbracht, Niels Klazenga, William Ulate, Cam Webb, Greg Whitbread.
  • March 7, 8 am UTC meeting: Anne Fuchs, Niels Klazenga, Rich Pyle, Greg Whitbread

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Our workshop was accepted in the pre-conference. This probably has got something to do with the special nature of the conference and the avalanche of proposals that were submitted. There are about as many sessions in the pre-conference as in the conference itself. Arturo has told us that there will be an opportunity to present the outcomes of pre-conference workshops during the conference.

There is a CoL+ symposium during the conference. It would be good to get a talk in that.

The weekend before the conference being taken up by workshops that are typically part of the TDWG conference throws a bit of a spanner in the works for organising a workshop for TNC core members in that weekend. We'll have to consider how to work around that.

Specification document

We covered the properties in the TaxonomicName class in the previous two meetings, so at this meeting we commenced discussion of the properties in the TaxonomicNameUsage class. We discussed all the core properties and stopped short of the typification.

As announced at the previous meeting, we will now (in the next meeting) move on to the Taxon Concept Relationships (we don't have a class name yet), before continuing with the typification and circumscription.

We decided to add to rows to the table for each property:

  • Property type: to indicate whether the object of the property is an Object or a literal
  • TNC discussion: to record the date of the meeting where the property was discussed and decisions that have been made.

General discussion (second meeting)

  • We reaffirmed that the standard should be about terms and definitions and nothing more (so pretty much what the Standard Maintenance Specification and Vocabulary Documentation Specification say) and that the definitions should allow for as little ambiguity as possible. It was observed that pretty much everything we want to do can be done in the Darwin Core Taxon class, but the Darwin Core Taxon class allows other things to be done with it as well and one can't see from a CSV file what it aims to do.

  • We decided to start collating examples of taxonomic treatments and mark them up. It was suggested that people would come up with one or a few examples and that multiple people would mark up the same examples, so that we can see what the agreements and differences are and can discuss the latter. APNI (the Australian Plant Name Index) might already have marked up examples, which we could scan in. Also, data models and instance graphs from existing implementations will be nice to have. An examples folder has now been set up in GitHub.

  • We had a long discussion about the definition (or circumscription) of a Taxonomic Name Usage and about whether synonyms and misapplications are TNUs.

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