TG4 - taxonRank

[pzermoglio]

Following are the comments regarding building a vocabulary for taxonRank that have been provided to the group.

Paula Zermoglio (@pzermoglio):
In Dunedin it was suggested that a good candidate term for building a CV would be taxonRank.

Steve Baskauf (@baskaufs):
I would avoid any terms organized under the dwc:Taxon class simply because there is very active discussion going on about creating a TCS 2.0 standard and that could easily result in changes to or deprecations of terms under the Taxon class.

[ArthurChapman]

With taxonRank we have an excellent basis on which to build with the GBIF Taxon Rank Vocabulary (http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/rank.xml). taxonRank is important for tests #162 and #163 of TG2. Without looking at the GBIF Vocbulary in detail - there is probably only some fiddling to
1). put it into the TDWG format that TG4 is designing
2). Looking at what additional terms/languages may need to be covered.

We may decide, however - that what GBIF has is adequate as is and that there is no real work needed by this Task Group to take it further other than endorsing it.

[tucotuco]

@ArthurChapman Unless the best practices coming out of the Task Group recommend encoding the vocabulary of values in SKOS, in which case the existing vocabulary would be a nice starting point and a demonstration of how to "clean up" existing vocabularies used in practice, but not ratified.

[baskaufs]

Well, probably most of the vocabularies will be encoded as skos:concepts, but applying the SKOS properties to the terms is a somewhat trivial technical detail. So the GBIF vocabulary could easily be adopted and just given SKOS metadata. It could be done in about 10 minutes.

[timrobertson100]

I notice the URLs above refer to the outdated DwC-A controlled ranks, while the more complete one from the GBIF / Catalogue of Life work is here with the related github discussion here.