CDEFD

Terms and Entities Taken from Other Models

Taxonomic information is treated in detail in the IOPI-ISC information model (Berendsohn 1994). This model includes the following entities which are repeatedly used in the present model but which have not here been resolved:

• Scientific Name: The basic botanical name without any attached taxonomic or nomenclatural information, including hybrids, cultivars, races or strains, and unnamed taxa.
• Potential Taxon Name: Taxon names with a circumscription reference, which clarifies the taxonomic concept of the names application, including its classification, synonymy and nomenclatural status (see Berendsohn 1995).
• Reference Title: Entire reference citations, including publications, databases, in-citations, and "informal references" such as personal communications or notes.
• Person Team: A person or a number of persons in a defined sequence (see Elankovan & al., this volume).