Ecological Trait-data Standard Vocabulary (v0.10)

Public release at GFBio Terminology Service: https://terminologies.gfbio.org/terms/ets/pages/ (human readable) and https://terminologies.gfbio.org/terminology/?ontology=ETS (API access).

v0.10, released 28 March 2019

critical changes

The assignment of user-defined and standardised measurement values and trait and taxon assignments has been updated, to match labelling practice in DwC and provide a more intuitive content for those fields. Accordingly

• the v0.9.1 terms scientificName, traitName, traitValue, and traitUnit have been renamed into verbatimScientificName, verbatimTraitName, verbatimTraitValue, and verbatimTraitUnit with new identifiers.
• the terms scientificNameStd, traitNameStd, traitValueStd, and traitUnitStd have been renamed into scientificName, traitName, traitValue, and traitUnit and now form the default suggested content for trait data complying with the ETS. Definitions have been harmonized. The original *Std identifiers now resolve to these new terms.

major changes

• further recommended metadata terms have been added, based on Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: rights, datasetDefinition, issued, and conformsTo

minor changes

• the identifier field for Dublin Core terms now provides an own Identifier on GFBio terminology service, while the Dublin Core identifier is given in the 'Refines' field.

EcologicalTraitData/ETS: first full release (patch)

Patch of first public release at GFBio Terminology Service: https://terminologies.gfbio.org/terms/ets/pages/ (human readable) and https://terminologies.gfbio.org/terminology/?ontology=ETS (API access).

v0.9.1 (patch), released 13 November 2018

Fixing inconsistent URIs and terms. Keeping original terms as deprecated, forwarding to new terms. Defining name scheme for new terms in documentation.

major changes

• new case spelling for following terms: occurrenceRemarks
• new URI for following terms: scientificName, traitName, traitID, traitValue, traitUnit, scientificNameStd, traitNameStd, traitValueStd, traitUnitStd, measurementID, occurrenceID, basisOfRecord, basisOfRecordDescription, identifier, comments

minor changes

• define name scheme for new terms and URIs
• add best-practice guidelines to documentation page

first full release

First public release at GFBio Terminology Service: https://terminologies.gfbio.org/terms/ets/pages/ (human readable) and https://terminologies.gfbio.org/terminology/?ontology=ETS (API access).

major changes

• move URI for terms to GFBio terminology service
• rename source file into ETS.csv
• fix date scheme to ISO 8601
• eliminate term versions, introduce 'FirstIssuedIn' to refer to ETS version
• introduce Traitlist|relatedTerm and revive Traitlist|source
• provide field definitions in README

pre-print release

• fix patches and minor things in term definitions and comments, provide more examples.
• revise description on vocabulary sections
• revise recommendation for trait definitions; drop page on publication of Thesauri

Revised Extensions

revised extensions: added a taxon extension to include taxon rank and higher taxa.

fully documented version

This version is the first with a full documentation website.
The name of the Github repo changed ( https://github.com/EcologicalTraitData/ETS) providing a shortened URL for the online reference (https://github.com/EcologicalTraitData/ETS).

first release with a DOI

First release with a DOI!

The Ecological Traitdata Standard (ETS) is a collection of terms for datasets on quantitative and qualitative organism properties (i.e. traits). It also includes recommendations on how to structure such data for upload in public databases.