Taxon core

The taxon core is the core of any checklist. It is defined as:

The category of information pertaining to taxonomic names, taxon name usages, or taxon concepts.

It contains record-level and Taxon Darwin Core terms. Depending on the source data, we recommend to use the following terms:

term	mapping	example
language	vocabulary, static	en
license	URL, static	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
rightsHolder	abbreviation, static	INBO
datasetID	DOI, static	https://doi.org/10.15468/xvuzfh
institutionCode	abbreviation, static (inclusion of this term is pending)	INBO
datasetName	title, static	Checklist of non-native freshwater fishes in Flanders, Belgium
taxonID	unique identifier (see Taxon IDs)	alien-fishes-checklist:taxon:dec8ee68b3fae146c056b4972e3e6b83
scientificName	well-formed name (see Scientific names)	Acipenser baeri
kingdom	one of the kingdoms	Animalia
taxonRank	vocabulary (see Taxon ranks)	species
nomenclaturalCode	abbreviation, static	ICZN

For the full list of terms and definitions, see Darwin Core Taxon. For detailed information on how to publish a Darwin Core Archive checklist, see the GBIF Best Practices in Publishing Species Checklists.