[tcs-lc] where to go now..

[Roger Hyam]

I think it is important to establish that we can continue changing the 
schema after the 20th and it is not set in stone at that point.

Is this correct Jessie?

I think we have more than a weeks work to do on this and some of us are 
in a conference for that week as well!

Roger



Sally Hinchcliffe wrote:

>Hi all
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>>>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?
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>Rich wrote:
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>>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").
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>I agree ... 
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>>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".
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>Also agree ...
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>>3) What is the difference between the "Label" element of LC, and the
>>"NameSimple" element of TCS?
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>Don't know 
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>>>The rest of LC is optional
>>>anyway and afaik those bits of LC are now fairly well agreed?
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>>Agreed.
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>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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