TG2-VALIDATION_BASISOFRECORD_NOTEMPTY

[iDigBioBot]

TestField	Value
GUID	ac2b7648-d5f9-48ca-9b07-8ad5879a2536
Label	VALIDATION_BASISOFRECORD_NOTEMPTY
Description	Is there a value in dwc:basisOfRecord?
TestType	Validation
Darwin Core Class	Record-level
Information Elements ActedUpon	dwc:basisOfRecord
Information Elements Consulted
Expected Response	COMPLIANT if dwc:basisOfRecord is bdq:NotEmpty; otherwise NOT_COMPLIANT
Data Quality Dimension	Completeness
Term-Actions	BASISOFRECORD_NOTEMPTY
Parameter(s)
Source Authority
Specification Last Updated	2023-09-17
Examples	[dwc:basisOfRecord="PreservedSpecimen": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=COMPLIANT, Response.comment="dwc:basisOfRecord is bdq:NotEmpty"]
	[dwc:basisOfRecord="": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=NOT_COMPLIANT, Response.comment="dwc:basisOfRecord is bdq:Empty"]
Source	TG2
References
Example Implementations (Mechanisms)	Kurator/FilteredPush rec_occur_qc Library DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14968501
Link to Specification Source Code	https://github.com/FilteredPush/rec_occur_qc/blob/v1.0.1/src/main/java/org/filteredpush/qc/metadata/DwCMetadataDQ.java#L207
Notes

[iDigBioBot]

Comment by Lee Belbin (@Tasilee) migrated from spreadsheet:
Added post scoring for consistency

[tucotuco]

Agreed at TDWG 2018 DQIG meeting that the test is a Validation and the name TG2-VALIDATION_BASISOFRECORD_EMPTY is satisfactory.

[Tasilee]

Generating test data for this and wonder if we should have an 'INTERNAL_PREREQUISITES_NOTMET if dwc:basisOfRecord is not provided'? My feeling is "no" as this would be equivalent to EMPTY?

[ArthurChapman]

Agreed @Tasilee

[chicoreus]

@Tasilee I concur. To allow for implementations where the test is unable to tell if the field was provided as a data element for a record or not, we've included term not provided within the definition of empty, so tests should simply specify what state should be returned for empty and not separately make an assertion about a term not being provided.

[Tasilee]

Going through the test data, dwc:basisOfRecord="[non-printing characters]" with the current Expected Response would suggest to me to return "COMPLIANT": A sort of false positive (which is sort of ok :). Are we happy with that or are we suggesting something like "interpreted as a text string"...or similar? I want to keep this simple.

[ArthurChapman]

With all the "[non-printing characters]" we have treated them as EMPTY (and therefore NON_COMPLIANT) - we have been consistent - I guess it is because a human can't see them - they don't print. They would be easy to fix if we change that as they are all treated exactly the same in the EMPTY/NOT_EMPTY tests. This is different to "[Null]" where there is something - like "-n/", "null", "NULL", "9999", etc. where this a value and thus it is NOT_EMPTY and thus COMPLIANT

[tucotuco]

I prefer to keep them as EMPTY.

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[Tasilee]

Splitting bdqffdq:Information Elements into "Information Elements ActedUpon" and "Information Elements Consulted". Also changed "Field" to "TestField" and "Output Type" to "TestType".