TG2-VALIDATION_SCIENTIFICNAMEAUTHORSHIP_NOTEMPTY

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TestField	Value
GUID	49f1d386-5bed-43ae-bd43-deabf7df64fc
Label	VALIDATION_SCIENTIFICNAMEAUTHORSHIP_NOTEMPTY
Description	Is there a value in dwc:scientificNameAuthorship?
TestType	Validation
Darwin Core Class	dwc:Taxon
Information Elements ActedUpon	dwc:scientificNameAuthorship
Information Elements Consulted
Expected Response	COMPLIANT if dwc:scientificNameAuthorship is bdq:NotEmpty; otherwise NOT_COMPLIANT
Data Quality Dimension	Completeness
Term-Actions	SCIENTIFICNAMEAUTHORSHIP_NOTEMPTY
Parameter(s)
Source Authority
Specification Last Updated	2024-02-04
Examples	[dwc:scientificNameAuthorship="(Györfi, 1952)": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=COMPLIANT, Response.comment="dwc:scientificNameAuthorship is bdq:NotEmpty"]
	[dwc:scientificNameAuthorship="": Response.status=RUN_HAS_RESULT, Response.result=NOT_COMPLIANT, Response.comment="dwc:scientificNameAuthorship is bdq:Empty"]
Source	TG2
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Example Implementations (Mechanisms)
Link to Specification Source Code
Notes

[chicoreus]

There are practical arguments for including this test within the scope of core, as the presence of a value in scientifcNameAuthorship can help implementors with evaluation of the value of scientificName. See the discussion in #46.

[Tasilee]

@chicoreus: This test did have a score of 4.5 which supports your thinking. On what criteria would it be considered Supplementary?

1. Not being widely applicable (no)
2. Not informative (no)
3. Not straightforward to implement (no)
4. Likely to return a high percentage of either bdq:COMPLIANT or bdq:NOT_COMPLIANT results (cf bdq:Response.result) (no- 18% of GBIF records).

[chicoreus]

@Tasilee one of the very severe problems for implementors of tests around dwc:scientificName is understanding the string content in that name. dwc:scientificNameAuthorship is expected to contain the authorship part of the string, dwc:namePublishedInYear is expected to provide the year of publication (which may or may not be also found in dwc:scientificNameAuthorship. For any tests that are trying to match a string value in a dwc:scientificName with results from an authority, dwc:scientificNameAuthorship and dwc:namePublishedInYear are of substantial value to implementors in understanding whether a match exists or not. This gives the term wide applicability, it is informative, and it it straightforward to implement.