merge salinity and sample_salinity

[only1chunts]

Current term details The terms salinity (MIXS:0000183) and sample_salinity(MIXS:0000109) appear to be identical and should be merged. In addition, there is a 3rd term called extreme_unusual_properties/salinity(MIXS:0000651) which also provides a place to store salinity measurements

Term name - salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000183
Structured comment name - salinity
Definition - Salinity is the total concentration of all dissolved salts in a water sample. While salinity can be measured by a complete chemical analysis, this method is difficult and time consuming. More often, it is instead derived from the conductivity measurement. This is known as practical salinity. These derivations compare the specific conductance of the sample to a salinity standard such as seawater
Expected value - measurement value
Value syntax - {float} {unit}
Example - 25 practical salinity unit
Preferred unit - practical salinity unit, percentage
Package(s) - 
   microbial mat/biofilm
   miscellaneous natural or artificial environment
   sediment
   water

AND

Term name - sample salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000109
Structured comment name - samp_salinity
Definition - Salinity is the total concentration of all dissolved salts in a liquid or solid (in the form of an extract obtained by centrifugation) sample. While salinity can be measured by a complete chemical analysis, this method is difficult and time consuming. More often, it is instead derived from the conductivity measurement. This is known as practical salinity. These derivations compare the specific conductance of the sample to a salinity standard such as seawater
Expected value - measurement value
Value syntax - {float} {unit}
Example - 1 milligram per liter
Preferred unit - milligram per liter, practical salinity unit, percentage
Package(s) - 11 packages

AND

Term name - extreme_unusual_properties/salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000651
Structured comment name - extreme_salinity
Definition - Measured salinity
Expected value - measurement value
Value syntax - {float} {unit}
Example -
Preferred unit - millisiemens per meter
Package(s) - soil 

Has second required term:
salinity_meth | extreme_unusual_properties/salinity method | Reference or method used in determining salinity | PMID,DOI   or url | {PMID}\|{DOI}\|{URL} | MIXS:0000341

Suggested update(s)

The packages that each of these terms relates to appear to be different, so merging all terms together as one, unifying the preferred units and then considering moving the new term to CORE?

[lschriml]

agreed, merge the terms. Lynn

[ramonawalls]

Agree they should be merged.

[only1chunts]

Final consensus

Deprecate term

Term name - extreme_unusual_properties/salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000651

Deprecate term

Term name - sample salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000109

Update term (definition)

Term name - salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000183
Structured comment name - salinity
Definition - Salinity is the total concentration of all dissolved salts in a liquid or solid (in the form of an extract obtained by centrifugation) sample. While salinity can be measured by a complete chemical analysis, this method is difficult and time consuming. More often, it is instead derived from the conductivity measurement. This is known as practical salinity. These derivations compare the specific conductance of the sample to a salinity standard such as seawater.  _Consider the use of the metadata term salinity method._
Expected value - measurement value
Value syntax - {float} {unit}
Example - 25 practical salinity unit
Preferred unit - practical salinity unit, percentage
Packages - multiple

Replace both deprecated terms with "salinity [MIXS:0000183]"

[ramonawalls]

Deprecated all of the MIXS:0000109 terms.

[ramonawalls]

deprecated MIXS:0000651

[ramonawalls]

There is a term extreme_unusual_properties/salinity method that goes along with the deprecate term extreme_unusual_properties/salinity, but it is only used in the soil package at the moment. Since extreme_unusual_properties/salinity will be replaced by salinity, we should rename extreme_unusual_properties/salinity method to salinity method.

Term name - salinity method
Term ID - MIXS:0000341
Structured comment name - salinity_meth
Definition - Reference or method used in determining salinity
Expected value - PMID,DOI or url
Value syntax - {PMID}|{DOI}|{URL}
Example -
Preferred unit - 
Packages - soil

The only change is to the term name.

Done.

[ramonawalls]

Updated definition of salinity tp remove reference to method term, since most packages don't use it. Also got rid of "(in the form of an extract obtained by centrifugation)" which is too specific.

Added salinity to the package that had sample salinity(MIXS:0000109) that was deprecated (air, host-associated, human-associated, human-gut, human-oral, human-skin, human-vaginal, hydrocarbon resources-cores, hydrocarbon resources-fluids/swabs, plant-associated, wastewater/sludge).

Term name - salinity
Term ID - MIXS:0000183
Structured comment name - salinity
Definition - The total concentration of all dissolved salts in a liquid or solid sample. While salinity can be measured by a complete chemical analysis, this method is difficult and time consuming. More often, it is instead derived from the conductivity measurement. This is known as practical salinity. These derivations compare the specific conductance of the sample to a salinity standard such as seawater. 
Expected value - measurement value
Value syntax - {float} {unit}
Example - 25 practical salinity unit
Preferred unit - practical salinity unit, percentage
Packages - air, host-associated, human-associated, human-gut, human-oral, human-skin, human-vaginal, hydrocarbon resources-cores, hydrocarbon resources-fluids/swabs, microbial mat/biofilm, miscellaneous natural or artificial environment, plant-associated, wastewater/sludge, sediment, water

I made this change. This issue can be closed, unless there is disagreement about the changes.

[ramonawalls]

@only1chunts please close unless you disagree.

[only1chunts]

Thanks @ramonawalls , I agree with what you've done.