1. GBIF Usage of Taxonomic Names Donald Hobern GBIF Program Officer for Data Access and Database Interoperability October 2003

2. GBIF Usage of Taxonomic Names Intended User Base Completely open-ended Taxonomists and other scientific researchers Governments and policy makers General public Users and applications Intended Functionality Provide access to authoritative name data for all taxonomic groups, including taxonomic hierarchies and synonymy Index networked biodiversity data using taxonomic names Use both known synonymy and taxonomic hierarchies to improve results of user requests for all classes of biodiversity data Support access via vernacular names Also provide access to lists of taxonomic names other than taxonomic authority files (regional checklists, red lists, etc.) – implies need for name list metadata Handle names correctly for all codes Multiple user interfaces

3. Information Model Biodiversity Data Index Services Registry NodesServicesRecords GBIF Portal Participant Nodes Data Nodes Taxonomic Name Service Specimen/Observation Service General Resource Service Name List Service … Taxonomic Names Specimen/Observation Records HTML Pages Images … holds metadata for provides index of holds metadata for provide supply holds access details for

4. GBIF Network Data Model Provider (Institution) Service (Collection) BindingtModel Specimen/ Observation Taxon Name Index Record General Resource (URL) Services Registry Web Service Implementations Biodiversity Data Index Name List Record Specimen/ Observation Service Taxonomic Name Service General Resource Service Name List Service Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms Name Usage

5. Integration by Name Service (ECAT) Catalogue of Life Biodiversity Data Access Biodiversity Data Index Taxonomic Name Service (ECAT) User requests GBIF Data Nodes Specimen Data Links to other data Specimen Data Name Lists Specimen Data Observation Data Specimen Data

6. GBIF Taxonomic Name Data Model RANK rankKey rankLinguisticElementKey SERVICECLASS serviceClassKey serviceClassLinguisticElementKey SERVICE serviceKey serviceProviderKey serviceUUID serviceName serviceServiceClassKey... TAXONNAME taxonNameKey taxonNameRankKey taxonNameCanonical taxonNameSuprageneric taxonNameGeneric taxonNameInfrageneric taxonNameSpecific taxonNameInfraspecific taxonNameInfraspecificMarker taxonNameAuthorTeam taxonNameYear STATUS statusKey statusLinguisticElementKey RELATIONSHIP relationshipKey relationshipParentKey relationshipChildKey relationshipRecordKey VERNACULAR vernacularKey vernacularTaxonNameKey vernacularLanguageKey vernacularGeoRegionKey vernacularName vernacularComment vernacularRecordKey SYNONYMY synonymyKey synonymySynonymKey synonymyAcceptedKey synonymyStatusKey synonymyRecordKey References Concepts Other data BIODIVERSITYRECORD biodiversityRecordKey biodiversityRecordServiceKey biodiversityRecordIdentifier biodiversityRecordTaxonNameKey