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                                            Richard L. Pyle

Define objective rules for taxon concept identity

One more point.... in response to the comment by @mdoering above, "versioning" of CoL representations can be handled in several ways: 1) Internally using version histories for the same identifiers...

Change term - originalNameUsage & originalNameUsageID

@ghwhitbread: > If Jones had legitimately published Zus bus Jones and Pyle moved it to Aus it would get a replacement name, Aus cus Pyle, because the epithet is occupied...

Change term - originalNameUsage & originalNameUsageID

Agreed! I'm also OK with your preferences for 4 & 5 (and agree that 6 is probably best to mention in the comments as a "best practices" thing). But I...

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines. But there is a subtle but important distinction: Protonyms are the first chronoloogical use of a name, not necessarily the first Code-compliant establishment...

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

Also, the equivalent of [dwc:taxonomicStatus](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/nomenclaturalStatus) for the taxonomic qualifiers.

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

> This is important stuff ... A robust and extensible type-vocabulary for the TNU could well be our most important contribution. I **completely** agree! But we'll need a system that...

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

@mdoering : > does ZooBank evaluate or capture a status? The data model supports it (via NomenclaturalEvents), but we have not yet implemented this on the ZooBank website. This will...

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

If I understand this discussion correctly, it underscores why I am distrustful of a class of "thing" representing a TN. There is no single definition of what such a thing...

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

I failed to answer the question from @afuchs1 : > so if we are ingesting a publication of a new taxa (via a bibliographicResource) where should this data be captured?...

property:{TO BE NAMED} to indicate the novel status of a taxon in a publication

@ghwhitbread : I think you're right that we need a system of classifying TNU "types". However, I'm not sure the ones you list are mutually exclusive. When the "type" of...