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Resolve more taxonID suppliers than WoRMS #1119

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mdoering opened this issue Feb 10, 2025 · 1 comment
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Resolve more taxonID suppliers than WoRMS #1119

mdoering opened this issue Feb 10, 2025 · 1 comment

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WoRMS LSIDs can be used in dwc:taxonID, dwc:taxonConceptID or dwc:scientificNameID to link an occurrence to the GBIF taxonomy. It currently get's used by pipelines to interpret the taxon in preference over the other verbatim taxonomy terms like dwc:scientificName.

There are other important and already often used reference taxonomies with stable identifiers that we should interpret. Consider to support the following:

  • COL: ^col:([2-9BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ]+)
  • ITIS: ^(?:itis|tsn:)(\\d+)
  • GBIF: ^gbif:(\\d+)
  • IPNI: ^(?:ipni|urn:lsid:ipni.org:names):(\\d+-[1-3])
  • UNITE: ^(?:unite:)(SH\\d+\.\\d\\dFU)
  • BOLD: ^(BOLD:[A-Z0-9]+)

For non global identifiers we should follow the CURIE format (prefix:local-identifier) which is the recommended way to use taxonomic identifiers with ColDP.

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This should also be documented, see gbif/tech-docs#98

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