EDIT

Vergleich TCS – Berlin Model¶

TCS has 6 slots (Meta_Data, Specimen, Publications, Taxon_Names, Taxon_Concepts, Taxon_Relationship_Assertions)

Taxon_Names¶

| |BM |TCS|
|Nomenclatural_Code |Not existing ( or existing in Reference as “NomStandard”) |Existing as an attribute|
|is_Anamorphic |Not existing Existing as an attribute (use for some fungus)
|Simple NameCache /FullNameCache Both existst (“NameCache” is to be found in
|Rank |Foreign Key to a controlled voc. String or code (controlled voc.)
|Uninomial / Suprageneric|Suprageneric only used for taxa above genus rank Uninomial used for genus and above
|Genus |genus |genus (to be used for genus rank??)
|Genus_Subdivision_Epi |GenusSubdivisionEpi (not together with SpeciesEpi) |InfragenericEpithet (not together with SpecificEpithet)
|Specific_Epithet |SpeciesEpi |SpecificEpithet
|Infraspecific_Epithet |InfraSpeciesEpi |InfraspecificEpithet
|Cultivar_Name(Group) |CultivarName and CultivarNameGroup |Only CultivarNameGroup
|Simple Authorship |Not existing |obligate
|Authorship |Author, ExAuthor, BasAuthor, ExBasAuthor |Authorship or (BasionymAuthorship and CombinationAuthorship). |Combination_Authorship |might be neglected as usual in zoology (but against code).
|Authorship - Year |Not existing (except for EDIT version) |Facultative
|Authorship - Agent_Names |Facultative, detailed information |Facultative, String, role and link, no more information
|NomRef NomRefFk to a PublishedIn (as a link e.g. to an publication) and MicroReference and Year
|Typification Not really existing yet TypeVouchers and TypeNames
TypeVouchers For species and below:

typeOfType (attribute),

VoucherReference,

LectotypePublication,

LectotypeMicroReference

TypeName        Above species:

NameReference,

LectotypePublication,

LectotypeMicroReference

RelName and NomStatus RelName and NomStatus are stored in 2 tables SpellingCorrectionOf, Basionym, ConservedAgainst, LaterHomonymOf, SpellingCorrectionOf, BasedOn (?), Sanctioned, ReplacementNameFor, PublicationStatus

All relations have the following facultative attributes: rule considered, note, related name, reference + microreference

This differs from BM as in BM we don’t use the rule considered but the string expression used for the relation (e.g. nom. nov.) that may point to different rules

ProviderLink NameSourceRefFk (Link?) ProviderLink

ProviderSpecificData Not existing ProviderSpecificData

Homotypic Synonyms only Only on name level by using basionym or ReplacementNameFor relationship