New term - infragenericEpithet about dwc

[peterdesmet]

This proposal needs more evidence for demand (see the Vocabulary Maintenance Specification - Section 3.1). Anybody who is interested in the adoption/change of this term, should comment with their use case below. If demand is not demonstrated by the next annual review of open proposals (late 2020), this proposal will be dismissed.

[peterdesmet]

Ping @mdoering

[mdoering]

important term to represent parsed names. In use by GBIF and CoL for years already:
http://api.col.plus/parser/name?name=Abies%20(Abies)%20alba
http://api.gbif.org/v1/parser/name?name=Abies%20(Abies)%20alba

[mdoering]

Catalogue of Life uses this in the ColDP format to exchange data.
It is used in IPNI, and present in the TDWG ontology and TCS.

Exchanging parsed infrageneric names is not possible currently in DwC. It has only support for bi- or trinomials.
Examples from IPNI:

Vicia sect. Cracca Dumort.
dwc:genericName = Vicia
dwc:infragenericEpithet = Cracca
dwc:scientificNameAuthorship= Dumort.
dwc:taxonRank= section

ICZN subgenus example Abacetus (Abacetillus) ambiguus Straneo, 1969:
dwc:genericName = Abacetus
dwc:infragenericEpithet = Abacetillus
dwc:specificEpithet = ambiguus
dwc:scientificNameAuthorship= Straneo, 1969
dwc:taxonRank= species

[mdoering]

For the specificEpithet we currently have:

The name of the first or species epithet of the scientificName.

Proposal for infragenericEpithet:

Definition: The infrageneric part of the scientificName.

Comment: dwc:infragenericEpithet should be used in conjunction with dwc:genericName, dwc:specificEpithet, dwc:infraspecificEpithet, dwc:taxonRank and dwc:scientificNameAuthorship to represent the individual elements of the complete scientificName. It can be used to indicate the subgenus placement of a species which in zoology is often given in brackets, e.g. Abacetus (Abacetillus) ambiguus. But it can also be used to share infrageneric names such as botanical sections e.g. Vicia sect. Cracca

[tucotuco]

@mdoering Would you say that this proposal should come with a recommendation to deprecate dwc:subgenus?

[mdoering]

No, it is the same as with dwc:genus and dwc:genericName that dwc:subgenus is the subgenus the name is classified in, but that might be different for synonyms.

[nielsklazenga]

This term is in TCS.

[baskaufs]

dwc:infragenericEpithet falls into the category of "convenience terms" and should therefore be added to table 3.5 in the RDF Guide. It should not have a dwciri: analog.

[tucotuco]

Could someone please confirm if there is a mapping to ABCD?

[nielsklazenga]

There are a few:

• //DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Identifications/Identification/Result/TaxonIdentified/ScientificName/NameAtomised/Bacterial/Subgenus (bacterial names)
• //DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Identifications/Identification/Result/TaxonIdentified/ScientificName/NameAtomised/Zoological/Subgenus (zoological names)

For botanical names, for some reason, it has been merged with specificEpithet into 'FirstEpithet':

• //DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Identifications/Identification/Result/TaxonIdentified/ScientificName/NameAtomised/Botanical/FirstEpithet

So I would suggest that there is no equivalent in ABCD 2.06 that works with all types of names (that may have infrageneric epithets), but it might be helpful to the people who can deliver infrageneric epithets in ABCD 2 to list the XPath for Subgenus in zoological names.

[jholetschek]

+1 to what Niels commented... in ABCD, the atomised parts are different for botanical, zoological, bacterial and viral names.

[tucotuco]

Thanks @nielsklazenga and @jholetschek. Incorporated into the first comment.

[tucotuco]

Done.