dwc:higherClassification

[hollyel]

Important to include for paleontological data. Darwin Core does not provide terms for all of the ranks that might be necessary for a given fossil specimen. A concatenated list of names in higherTaxonomy helps to fill that gap.

https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:higherClassification

Best practice and further comments below:

[garymotz]

@hollyel are you saying that higherTaxonomy should include both a concatenated list of names AND their rank for each individual name in the list?

[ekrimmel]

From Matt during 11/28/2018 mtg: dwc:taxonRank tells the iDigBio matching algorithm which dwc taxon level field to weight the heaviest. So if we give iDigBio a taxonRank value that is not also a dwc field (e.g. subclass) then the matching is affected negatively.

[ljwalker]

From Nicholas Rejack during 11/28/2018 mtg: FYI taxonRank w/ controlled vocabulary for the field

[hollyel]

@garymotz No sorry. Just the actual names. I wasn't sure how to explain it in a clear way... I edited my original post

[mjcollin]

As an issue "suborder" is an allowed value for taxonRank in the controlled vocab however there is no suborder DwC field so if that is provided, there is no DwC field for a matching algorithm to weight higher.

[hollyel]

just realized I used the wrong term name. Thread name is updated, but there are other instances of higherTaxonomy throughout the discussion