Ontology for Taxonomic Reference Systems
This Ontology is designed to describe the structure of a Taxonomic Reference System, i.e. an information system that holds information about taxa. It is not an attempt to codify taxonomy as a whole.
A Taxonomic Reference System (TRS) records only taxonomic infomation about taxa. It does not include
- 'status' (such as whether it is deemed to be present or absent from a given area)
- occurrences
- Conservation status
- Biosecuturity status
- ...
TODO: (These should be moved to a wiki page maybe?)
- https://github.com/shenwei356/taxonkit -- seems to take a different approach to taxon IDs (i.e. the attributes may change for a given ID)
- https://www.itis.gov/glossary.html -- lots of goodies including Taxonomic Status.