[tcs-lc] where to go now..

[Sally Hinchcliffe]

Oh, and also:
revising the ref attribute within the genus and specific elements to 
allow use of different types of ids (see 
http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/twiki/bin/view/UBIF/ObjectTypePattern for 
Gregor's examples). - following our Poa discussion


> 
> > > Could you just take the part of the LC that covers CanonicalName,
> > > CanonicalAuthorship and the Label and drop it into the place where
> > > the ABCD name element was in TCS?
> Rich wrote:
>  
> > I think this is a sensible approach. However, there are a few basic issues
> > that remain in my mind:
> > 
> > 1) Somewhere, on some wiki, it seemed like most people agreed that "Kingdom"
> > could/would be replaced by "NomenclaturalCode" (or whatever makes sense to
> > call it).  True?  If so, it is probably something that does not belong as a
> > root TaxonConcept element, but rather belongs somewhere within the "Name"
> > element (indeed, somewhere specifically within "ScientificName").
> >
> I agree ... 
> > 2) Similarly, I think "Rank" is also a function of a Name, rather than of a
> > concept, and probably belongs within "Name" or even "ScientificName".
> > 
> Also agree ...
> > 3) What is the difference between the "Label" element of LC, and the
> > "NameSimple" element of TCS?
> 
> Don't know 
> > > The rest of LC is optional
> > > anyway and afaik those bits of LC are now fairly well agreed?
> > 
> > Agreed.
> > 
> There are also Roger's comments from the document that kicked 
> this whole discussion off. As I remember, some of these were 
> uncontroversial - setting up a 'text' (or label?) alternative 
> consistently in each element, possibly adding verbatim elements 
> consistently, using UBIF metadata in the main schema (I've used 
> this for IPNI & I think it's pretty neat and powerful) & having a 
> clearer and consistently used naming convention for things like 
> simple / atomised / text elements.
> 
> Sally
> 
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*** Sally Hinchcliffe
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