Re: [tdwg-tag] Unresloved technical issues - proposed decisions.

Yes - we should have a "taxonConceptID" column, as we do in the Occurrences table. In most cases, this will be filled out automatically after the observation has been entered, by a tool that maps names to guids. But, this being TDWG, you're right that some may identify the taxon with a guid. (I'd love to see this.)

:-)

But I was actually thinking of something way more pragmatic, like local ID of a ID source and name of ID-Source. In practice of the observations databases I know, they all have ID-numbers for taxa, but often only nationally standardized, or even by project. Still, I believe this would mean great benefit.

Gregor