PhycoBank

Digital publishers can send the data for nomenclatural acts (Name, Types, Reference ) to a web service endpoint.

The transport schema of the data (TCS, CDM, ...) needs to be decided.

• TCS : implementation of the type and specimen part is too limited - REJECTED
  

General considerations¶

Submission of typifications

Publishers may not have highly atomized data for the specimen, this means that the web service needs to accept submissions which only consist of

• titleCache
• type status: (e.g. holotypem, lectotype)
• kindOfUnit (default=Specimen)
• record basis (default=PreservedSpecimen)
• collection code : Index Herbariorum Code (BRM or B or BM or BP etc.); avoid duplicate Collections, reuse existing, create new only if needed
• accession number:

All fields are required!