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<section id="ecological-traitdata-standard-ets" class="level1">
<h1>Ecological Traitdata Standard (ETS)</h1>
<p>This repository hosts the <strong>Ecological Traitdata Standard</strong>, which defines terms for the use in datasets containing quantitative and qualitative functional traits.</p>
<p>The repository contains:</p>
<ul>
<li>the ‘source file’ of the glossary (in .csv format), defining the terms and containing the URIs.</li>
<li>the source files of the documentation website (.Rmd, .yml), which are parsed in <a href="http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/rmarkdown_websites.html">RStudio as a Rmarkdown Website</a> and served via <a href="https://pages.github.com/">Github pages</a> (output in folder docs) to <a href="https://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/ETS/" class="uri">https://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/ETS/</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>A machine readable version will be generated and hosted by GFBio in RDF format.</p>
<section id="fields" class="level2">
<h2>fields</h2>
<p>The glossary contains several fields which are defined as follows:</p>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 27%" />
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<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th>field</th>
<th>definition</th>
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<td>Namespace</td>
<td>The collection of terms that the term is part of.</td>
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<tr class="even">
<td>Identifier</td>
<td>The Uniform Resource Identifier used to uniquely identify a term. If the term is an exact duplicate from Darwin Core or other glossaries, Identifier will forward directly to this definition.</td>
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<tr class="odd">
<td>Refines</td>
<td>If the definition builds on terms of the Darwin Core or other Glossaries, the original term is linked here (URI)</td>
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<tr class="even">
<td>Replaces</td>
<td>The URI of the term that is replaced by this term.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Deprecated</td>
<td>Flaggin deprecated terms. If TRUE, the term should not be used for new datasets, but will be maintained for compatibility.</td>
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<td>ReplacedBy</td>
<td>If a term is deprecated not be used any more, this field provides the URI of the replacement term.</td>
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<td>Version</td>
<td></td>
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<td>DateIssued</td>
<td></td>
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<td>DateModified</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Definition</td>
<td>A statement that represents the concept and essential nature of the term.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Comment</td>
<td>Clarification and examples.</td>
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</section>
<section id="contribute" class="level2">
<h2>Contribute</h2>
<p>Please use the <a href="https://github.com/EcologicalTraitData/ETS/issues">issues-page</a> for discussion and revision on individual terms, and settle the issue here before filing a pull-request that implements an update.</p>
</section>
<section id="versioning" class="level2">
<h2>Versioning</h2>
<p><strong>Current Version is 0.6</strong></p>
<p>Terminologies must provide a stability of definitions. If publications refer to the URI of a term, the definition found must be stable and be true to the definition intended by the author.</p>
<p>That said, definitions of terms can only be broadened or made more explicit, if the original sense of the definition remains valid. The discussion leading to a refinement of a term should consider this. If a definition changes substantially, it should receive an own URI and replace any redundant or deprecated terms. The deprecated terms will remain available at the same URI.</p>
<p>At some point, a new major version of the Traitdata Standard may be issued, providing new versioned URIs for all terms of the standard that have been altered since the previous major version.</p>
</section>
<section id="suggested-citation" class="level2">
<h2>Suggested Citation</h2>
<p>To refer to <strong>this version</strong> of the ETS please cite:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Schneider et al. (2017) Ecological Traitdata Standard, v0.6, URL: <a href="https://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/ETS/v0.6/" class="uri">https://ecologicaltraitdata.github.io/ETS/v0.6/</a> , DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1041733">10.5281/zenodo.1041733</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Please also cite the methods paper for the rationale and general considerations of semantic standardization of trait data:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Florian D. Schneider, Malte Jochum, Gaetane LeProvost, Andreas Ostrowski, Caterina Penone, Nadja K. Simons (in preparation) Introducing an Ecological Trait-data Standard.</p>
</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="license" class="level2">
<h2>License</h2>
<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span data-xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" data-property="dct:title">Ecological Traitdata Standard </span> by <span data-xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" data-property="cc:attributionName">Florian D. Schneider, Nadja K. Simons, Caterina Penone, Andreas Ostrowski</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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