Hi TDWG Content group:
Perhaps someone can answer these question? Suppose I submitted a new
biodiversity study to a journal for peer review and ultimately publication.
My study mentions taxonomic names, but some names are used in more than one
specific sense throughout the manuscript. As part of my study's data body,
I want to say things like: at this point or these sections in my
manuscript, I am using the name in the sense of authors X. And: later on in
the Discussion, I am using the name in "my new sense" (as an example). I
want to submit a table with structured metadata on the various usages of
names in my manuscript, as part of the supplementary data provided to the
Journal. I believe part of what the table would have to reflect, for each
usage, is whether this is my usage, or that of someone else that I am ok
with (=> define speaker role).
Is there a best TDWG standard to glean terms and definitions from to
draft up that table? I assume it is Darwin Core and/or the TCS, but then
has someone actually tried this (= extract the subset of terms needed to
identify names, usages, speaker roles) in conjunction with (e.g.) a
biodiversity inventory or taxonomic revision to be published? The key
purpose here would be to facilitate better name usage data practices, tied
to the process of publishing new data via journals. To make data about name
usages part of the supplementary data, in a structured and rather explicit
format.
Thanks and best,
Nico
