TG2-VALIDATION_INFRASPECIFICEPITHET_NOTEMPTY

[Tasilee]

TestField	Value
GUID	77c6fde2-c3ca-4ad3-b2f2-3b81bba9a673
Label	VALIDATION_INFRASPECIFICEPITHET_NOTEMPTY
Description	Is there a value in dwc:infraspecificEpithet?
TestType	Validation
Darwin Core Class	dwc:Taxon
Information Elements ActedUpon	dwc:infraspecificEpithet
Information Elements Consulted
Expected Response	INTERNAL_PREREQUISITES_NOT_MET if dwc:infraspecificEpithet is EMPTY and dwc:taxonRank contains a value that is not interpretable as a taxon rank; COMPLIANT if dwc:infraspecificEpithet is NOT EMPTY, or dwc:infraspecificEpithet is EMPTY and the value in dwc:taxonRank is higher than infraspecific epithet; otherwise NOT_COMPLIANT.
Data Quality Dimension	Completeness
Term-Actions	INFRASPECIFICEPITHET_NOTEMPTY
Parameter(s)
Source Authority
Specification Last Updated	2024-06-05
Examples	[dwc:infraspecificEpithet="noidea": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=COMPLIANT, Response.comment="dwc:infraspecificEpithet is not EMPTY"]
	[dwc:infraspecificEpithet="": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=NOT_COMPLIANT, Response.comment="dwc:infraspecificEpithet is EMPTY"]
Source	TG2
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Notes	This bdq:Supplementary test is not regarded as CORE (cf. bdq:CORE) because of one or more of the reasons: not being widely applicable; not informative; not straightforward to implement or likely to return a high percentage of either bdq:COMPLIANT or bdq:NOT_COMPLIANT results (cf bdq:Response.result). A Supplementary test may be implemented as CORE when a suitable use case exists.

[chicoreus]

This test very much calls out for examination of dwc:taxonRank as noted in #214. Any occurrences identified to the rank of species or above will correctly have dwc:infraspecificEpithet as empty, similarly for Taxon records in checklist data. This test, as is, will call out very large numbers of correct records as unfit for use. All of the tests listed in #214 suffer from this problem, but it is most egregious here and in the related but more complex problem in #265.

[Tasilee]

@chicoreus - I agree, with 1.5% GBIF records and 2.3% ALA records having NOTEMPTY, and the argument for the complexity in having to include other terms for utility suggests Immature/Incomplete?

Is the concept of the test informative (enough) either way (=Supplementary)? Is there a rational use case?

What do others think?

[ArthurChapman]

Agree with @chicoreus - I guess it still NEEDS WORK and is Immature/Incomplete as is.

[Tasilee]

Changed Expected Response from

COMPLIANT if dwc:infraspecificEpithet is not EMPTY; otherwise NOT_COMPLIANT

to

INTERNAL_PREREQUISITES_NOT_MET if dwc:infraspecificEpithet is EMPTY and dwc:taxonRank contains a value that is not interpretable as a taxon rank; COMPLIANT if dwc:infraspecificEpithet is not EMPTY, or dwc:infraspecificEpithet is EMPTY and the value in dwc:taxonRank is higher than infraspecific epithet; otherwise NOT_COMPLIANT.