[tdwg-content] Expressing some relationships in DwC?

[Richard Pyle]

Fair point.  I guess I need to think about it some more.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Markus Döring (GBIF)" [mailto:mdoering at gbif.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:40 AM
> To: Richard Pyle
> Cc: tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Expressing some relationships in DwC?
>
> >> Well sure, valid is overloaded just as accepted is which we
> >> nevertheless
> > use
> >> for the "accepted" taxonomic relation.
> >> Leaving aside what the actual term name is, validNameUsage,
> >> correctNameUsage, amendedNameUsage or sth else - it seems to fix the
> >> problem, doesn't it?
> >
> > Perhaps, but I guess because of the ambiguity issue with "valid", I'm
> > not completely sure which specific problem is being solved in this
> > case. If, as from Tony's original email, it is to link a nomen nudum
> > usage instance to its corresponding validly published/available usage
> > instance, that makes some sense.  But then do we need something
> > similar for Emendations (e.g.,
> > emendedUsageInstance) and other sorts of nomenclatural relationships?
> > How many of these "foreign keys" will we ultimately need?  This is why
> > I'm thinking in terms of something more relational.
>
> My hope would be that we only need one for a nomenclatural relationship
> and use the nom status to specify its exact meaning.
> But of course you could have multiple relations and then this method won't
> work.
> At least it would allow us to publish most of the data in a simple way
before
> one has to step into the relationship extension.
>
> Markus



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