Hi Rich,<div><br></div><div>I have not actually tried the #Set or occurrenceCount to see if it works as expected in a triplestore&gt;</div><div><br></div><div>Assuming this is for one of those #Set occurrences, a jar of fish all identified to the level of Perciformes it could be plural.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This does not say that they are all the same species, it just says that they are some species that falls within Perciformes.</div><div><br></div><div>- Pete</div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Richard Pyle <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:deepreef@bishopmuseum.org">deepreef@bishopmuseum.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">




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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Right, but that&#39;s only one of two types of &quot;identified as 
Perciformes&quot; circumstances.  The other is, &quot;there are many different 
species represented, but all fall within my taxon concept circumscription 
for Perciformes&quot;.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">So the key question becomes: is your use of the word &quot;species&quot; 
in &quot;Order Perciformes species undetermined&quot; necessarily singular, or might it 
also be plural?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Aloha,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Rich</font></span></div><br>
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  <font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org</a> 
  [mailto:<a href="mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter 
  DeVries<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> 
  <a href="mailto:tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org" target="_blank">tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [tdwg-content] An individual 
  identified to a higher group like Order, is still an instance of a species - 
  just a species that is currently unspecified<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
  <div></div><br clear="all">What I would recommend is that you treat a specimen 
  that is identified to an order (Perciformes) with something like the 
following.
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  <div>Species =&gt; <font color="#006600">Order 
  Perciformes species undetermined.</font></div>
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  <div>The individual is still an instance of a species, however that species 
  has yet to be determined.</div>
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  <div>What would work best is to have some standard way of writing the green 
  string above.</div>
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  <div>This would allow the occurrences that are of individuals identified only 
  to the Order Perciformes, to be interpreted as a species that falls 
  somewhere within the Order Perciformes.</div>
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  <div>- Pete</div>
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