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This guide shows how to publish DNA-derived spatiotemporal biodiversity data and make it discoverable through national and global biodiversity data discovery platforms. Based on experiences from Australia, Norway, Sweden, UNITE, and GBIF.
https://doi.org/10.35035/doc-vf1a-nr22
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identificationRemarks vs otu_seq_comp_appr ? #205

Open tobiasgf opened 5 months ago

tobiasgf commented 5 months ago

Currently the description of those two fields are very similar. Were there initially any thoughts on how they might have different scopes?

LynnDelgat commented 3 months ago

I agree, to me it is also unclear in the current guidelines where the taxonomic annotation method (and ref db) should be recorded. It seems to be under both identificationRemarks and otu_seq_comp_appr, however otu_seq_comp_appr is not meant to record the taxonomic annotation method according to the MiXS definition (see also this issue: https://github.com/GenomicsStandardsConsortium/mixs/issues/603#). In addition, there is a MiXS term called tax_class, which could be useful to record the taxonomic annotation method (if the definition is slightly adapted to not only cover genomes but also other sequences), which is not mentioned in the GBIF guidelines.