It sounds like we're in agreement on what needs to be done! It's just a semantic problem of labelling the identifer we use to represent this granular "thing". The several elements in DwC that include the word "Usage" are examples of these identifiers; but what is (still) not clear to me is what taxonID is intended for.
Rich
-----Original Message----- From: Gregor Hagedorn [mailto:g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:13 AM To: greg whitbread Cc: Richard Pyle; tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org; Kevin Richards Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Taxon Concept dilemma [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Excellent summary, Greg!
We must assume, as Gregor has noted, that in the absence of
explicit
statements to the contrary all taxonomic events are unique
... and if
they aren't, we simply have two that are the same.
Yes. This turns my vague efforts of gaining an operational perspective into an actual operationally useful instruction to those who have to assign IDs. :-) When in doubt, a (potentially) duplicate ID must be assigned!
Gregor