TG2-VALIDATION_TAXON_NOTEMPTY

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TestField	Value
GUID	06851339-843f-4a43-8422-4e61b9a00e75
Label	VALIDATION_TAXON_NOTEMPTY
Description	Is there a value in any of the terms needed to determine that the taxon exists?
TestType	Validation
Darwin Core Class	dwc:Taxon
Information Elements ActedUpon	dwc:taxonID
	dwc:scientificNameID
	dwc:acceptedNameUsageID
	dwc:parentNameUsageID
	dwc:originalNameUsageID
	dwc:taxonConceptID
	dwc:scientificName
	dwc:higherClassification
	dwc:kingdom
	dwc:phylum
	dwc:class
	dwc:order
	dwc:superfamily
	dwc:family
	dwc:subfamily
	dwc:tribe
	dwc:subtribe
	dwc:genus
	dwc:genericName
	dwc:subgenus
	dwc:infragenericEpithet
	dwc:specificEpithet
	dwc:infraspecificEpithet
	dwc:vernacularName
	dwc:cultivarEpithet
Information Elements Consulted
Expected Response	COMPLIANT if at least one term needed to determine the taxon of the entity exists and is NOT EMPTY; otherwise NOT_COMPLIANT
Data Quality Dimension	Completeness
Term-Actions	TAXON_NOTEMPTY
Parameter(s)
Source Authority
Specification Last Updated	2023-09-18
Examples	[dwc:taxonID="", dwc:scientificNameID="", dwc:acceptedNameUsageID="", dwc:parentNameUsageID="", dwc:originalNameUsageID="", dwc:taxonConceptID="", dwc:scientificName="Eucalyptus gunnii", dwc:higherClassification="", dwc:kingdom="", dwc:phylum="", dwc:class="", dwc:order="", dwc:family="", dwc:genus="", dwc:subgenus="", dwc:specificEpithet="", dwc:infraspecificEpithet="", dwc:vernacularName="" : Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=COMPLIANT, Response.comment="at least enough terms exist that identify that an entity exists"]
	[dwc:taxonID="", dwc:scientificNameID="", dwc:acceptedNameUsageID="", dwc:parentNameUsageID="", dwc:originalNameUsageID="", dwc:taxonConceptID="", dwc:scientificName="", dwc:higherClassification="", dwc:kingdom="", dwc:phylum="", dwc:class="", dwc:order="", dwc:family="", dwc:genus="", dwc:subgenus="", dwc:specificEpithet="", dwc:infraspecificEpithet="", dwc:vernacularName="": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=NOT_COMPLIANT, Response.comment="All input fields are empty or missing"]
Source	Lee Belbin
References
Example Implementations (Mechanisms)
Link to Specification Source Code
Notes	This tests for records that have no taxonomic (NAME) information. If there is any value for any of the Information Elements, this may be useful information. See example.

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Comment by Lee Belbin (@Tasilee) migrated from spreadsheet:
This needs discussion. For example, would kingdom, phylum, class or order only be useful?

[Tasilee]

Added new Darwin Core taxon terms to Information Elements. Are there any unnecessary ones?

[chicoreus]

Following the definitions of the higher taxonomy terms being placements for the taxon, not the taxon, and as expresse in #57 and #70, the information elements in this test should exclude the higher taxonomy terms, and should reflect just the list as used in #57 and #70: dwc:taxonID, dwc:scientificName, dwc:genericName, dwc:specificEpithet, dwc:infraspecificEpithet, dwc:scientificNameAuthorship and dwc:cultivarEpithet. Perhaps also including dwc:taxonConceptID, and dwc:scientificNameID. This shorter list are the terms needed to "determine the taxon of the entity exists", others are placements for the taxon or relationships to other taxa.

[chicoreus]

Discussed in a call this summer, position is analogous to a date with just a day, there isn't sufficient information to know which day is being talked about, but there is some information that constrains the date. Thus even just a value in kingdom (a classification term) is adequate to provide some constraints on the taxon. Thus retain the current list of information elements, not try to reduced.

[chicoreus]

Will need to include the new terms dwc:superfamily, dwc:tribe, dwc:subtribe tdwg/dwc#65 tdwg/dwc#45 tdwg/dwc#46

[Tasilee]

Added the terms dwc:superfamily, dwc:tribe, dwc:subtribe to the Information elements.

[chicoreus]

Updated the date last updated to 2022-07-04 as the list of information elements has changed.

[Tasilee]

Amended Specification Last Updated from "2022-07-04" to "2023-07-04" :)

[Tasilee]

Splitting bdqffdq:Information Elements into "Information Elements ActedUpon" and "Information Elements Consulted".

Also changed "Field" to "TestField", "Output Type" to "TestType" and updated "Specification Last Updated"