property: accordingTo

[nielsklazenga]

accordingTo (property)

Identifier	http://rs.tdwg.org/tcs/terms/accordingTo
Type	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property
Label	According To
	required: Yes — repeatable: No
Definition	Reference to the treatment or other source in which a Taxon Concept is established or used.
Usage	accordingTo is an IRI term and is required on a Taxon Concept. A Taxon Concept can have only one accordingTo.

Comments

Every Taxon Concept is in some sort of treatment and this treatment provides important context without which we do not know what a taxon name really means and therefore the accordingTo property is required for a TCS Taxon Concept. In TCS 2, accordingTo has to be a reference to some sort of resource rather than just a person's name. However, TCS is lenient about the nature of this resource and, apart from references to bibliographic resources, references to personal communications and determinations are also acceptable, if there is value in supplying taxon concepts from such communications as Taxon Concepts.

The value of accordingTo has to be an object or IRI. This object can contain as little as a bibliographic reference but it is much more useful to provide it in a format that can be understood by reference managers such as Zotero or Mendeley.

Examples

# Taxonomic article (object of property only)
<https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2013.806371> a bibo:AcademicArticle ;
    dcterms:creator <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-7018>,
            <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-8162> ;
    bibo:authorList ( <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-7018> 
            <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-8162> ) ;
    dcterms:title """Description of two new species and phylogenetic reassessment of 
            Perelleschus O’Brien & Wibmer, 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with 
            a complete taxonomic concept history of Perelleschus sec. Franz & 
            Cardona-Duque, 2013""" ;
    bibo:shortTitle """Description of two new species and phylogenetic reassessment 
            of Perelleschus O’Brien & Wibmer, 1986 (Coleoptera""" ;
    dcterms:isPartOf [ a bibo:Issue ;
        dcterms:date "June 1, 2013" ;
        dcterms:isPartOf [ a bibo:Journal ;
                dcterms:title "Systematics and Biodiversity" ;
                bibo:issn "1477-2000" ] ;
                dcterms:publisher [ a foaf:Organization ;
                    foaf:name "Taylor & Francis" ] ;
            bibo:volume "11" ;
            bibo:issue "2" ] ;
    bibo:pages "209-236" ;
    bibo:doi "10.1080/14772000.2013.806371" ;
    bibo:uri "https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2013.806371" .

<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-7018> a foaf:Person ;
    foaf:givenName "Nico M." ;
    foaf:surname "Franz" .

<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-8162> a foaf:Person ;
    foaf:givenName "Juliana" ;
    foaf:surname "Cardona-Duque*" .

[TaxonConcept-accordingTo-example-1.ttl] [TaxonConcept-accordingTo-example-1.jsonld]

# Field guide (object of property only)
<urn:isbn:978-0-307-95790-0> a bibo:Book ;
    dcterms:title "The Sibley guide to birds" ;
    dcterms:date "2014" ;
    dcterms:language "en" ;
    dcterms:publisher [ 
        a foaf:Organization ;
        address:localityName "New York, NY, USA" ;
        foaf:name "Alfred A. Knopf" 
    ] ;
    bibo:isbn "978-0-307-95790-0" ;
    bibo:edition "2" ;
    bibo:numPages "599" ;
    dcterms:creator "_:b1" ;
    bibo:authorList ( "_:b1" ) .

_:b1 a foaf:Person ;
    foaf:givenName "David Allen" ;
    foaf:surname "Sibley" .

[TaxonConcept-accordingTo-example-2.ttl] [TaxonConcept-accordingTo-example-2.jsonld]

# Checklist (object of property only)
<urn:isbn:978-967-5221-99-6> a bibo:Book ;
    dcterms:bibliographicCitation """Yong, K.T.; Tan, B.C.; Ho, B.C.; Ho, Q.Y.; Mohamed, H. (2013). 
            A revised moss checklist of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Research Pamphlet no. 
            133. Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia.""" .

[TaxonConcept-accordingTo-example-3.ttl] [TaxonConcept-accordingTo-example-3.jsonld]

Mapping

TCS	DataSet/TaxonConcepts/TaxonConcept/AccordingTo/AccordingToDetailed
TDWG Ontology	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonConcept#accordingTo

Associated literal term: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/nameAccordingTo

[nielsklazenga]

Do we also need a literal property for this? TCS and the Taxon Concept LSID Ontology have 'DataSet/TaxonConcepts/TaxonConcept/AccordingTo/Simple' and http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonConcept#accordingToString respectively.

[Archilegt]

The term and good definition matching this property already exist in Darwin Core. Formerly taxonAccordingTo, now deprecated and replaced by nameAccordingTo (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/nameAccordingTo).

[nielsklazenga]

The term and good definition matching this property already exist in Darwin Core. Formerly taxonAccordingTo, now deprecated and replaced by nameAccordingTo (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/nameAccordingTo).

The meaning is the same, but dwc:nameAccordingTo is a string while tcs:accordingTo takes an object or URI. For other terms, Darwin Core has URI equivalents with the same label in the dwciri namespace, but not for anything in the Taxon class. For those terms we need to create equivalents in the tcs namespace.

See also https://github.com/tdwg/tcs2/issues/2#issuecomment-1026450038