Greg Whitbread

@mdoering, I wonder if your definition change for originalNameUsage really aligns it with originalNameUsageId. It remains a name, while the usage identifier references a name accordingTo some source. The general...

With respect to replacement names (nomen novum), the existing definition for originalNameUsage states “… or the senior/earlier homonym for replaced names.” The existence of a senior homonym is the reason...

In the NSL we capture these status values within the vocabulary (for our equivalent) of TNU-type. So much of how we consume, store, use, transform and disseminate TNU data depends...

The simple solution is an additional property, TaxonNameUsageType, along with an associated, and extensible, type vocabulary. Because the TNU all the way down approach requires that each TNU be typed....

@nielsklazenga & @afuchs1 : I hope you’re not suggesting that we obfuscate these data elements using the generic, TCS 101 vocabulary. That dumbing down was a significant factor in the...

A few observations (and an alternative take), Assuming this issue is about the publication of OBIS using Darwin Core (not Occurrence core/extension): - WORMS is a taxonomic dataset ... but,...

+1 for scientificNameID (again) … and whether or not it is supposed to be taxon or name (or both), OBIS still uses WoRMS as the source of nomenclatural details for...

> Proving that if a big enough user community is using a term some way, then that is how it should be used? Identifier | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificNameID Definition | An identifier...