Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.
| Core Content Characterization | |
|---|---|
| Attribute | Value |
| Title* | Integrated Taxonomic Information System |
| Acronym | ITIS |
| **One of the following (Web page(s), Identifier, or Contact Information) is mandatory: | |
| Web page(s)** | www.itis.usda.gov |
| Identifier** | Download is available from http://www.itis.usda.gov/ftp_download.html |
| Contact Information** |
Michael Ruggiero ruggiero.michael@nmnh.si.edu |
| Inclusion Rationale* | Example of a classic classification scheme for organisms Of interest to the USGS/Biology Discipline. Fits with environmental and health theme. |
| Subject* | Biological |
| Kind of Metadata* | Classification/Categorization Schemes and Taxonomies |
| Size statistics (estimated)* | Since the 1996 import of the legacy dataset, ITIS has grown to more than 366,000 scientific names, more than 63 percent of which have been verified in the literature, leaving about 140,000 names as unverified legacy data (as of December 2004) |
| Initial Submitter* | Gail Hodge, gailhodge@aol.com |
| Date of Initial Survey* | 2004-12-17 |
Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.
| Supplementary Content Characterization | |
|---|---|
| Attribute | Value |
| Date* | Updated monthly. |
| Creator | USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure |
| Publisher* | USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure |
| Description* | TIS is a database of authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. It is a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies (ITIS-North America); other organizations; and taxonomic specialists. ITIS is also a partner of Species 2000 and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). |
| Language(s)* | English. (The scientific names are Latin. The current list of languages for common names includes: Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, Djuka, Dutch, English, French, Galibi, German, Greek, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Web sites exist in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.) |
| Graph-theoretic Classification* | Directed acyclic graph |
| Format / Schemas(s)* |
ITIS is downloaded in a compressed file. When uncompressed on the local machine itis.sql defines a set of tables that can be used by any RDBMS. See detailed instructions at http://www.itis.usda.gov/ftp_download.html Data are available in XML format via the ITIS customized download (http://www.itis.usda.gov/customdownload.html). SGML output is available from the Compare Taxonomy/Nomenclature tool (http://www.itis.usda.gov/taxmatch_ftp.html). |
| Media / Download* | Download is available from http://www.itis.usda.gov/ftp_download.html Also can be accessed for selective searches .... |
| Constraint Specifications | The .sql file included with the full download defines primary and foreign key constraints. |
| Protocol(s) | ftp and http (for selective access) |
| Licensing Issues* | None, public domain, can be posted to the web. |
| Export restrictions | None |
| Subsets | Subsets can be created based on a search strategy or for a particular taxonomic group from the Data Access page; it can also be searched; a user file can be compared against the ITIS database via the Taxonomy/Nomenclature Compare tool and the results downloaded in SGML format. |
| Versions, Updates | ITIS is updated as data is processed. The full database is made available for download on a monthly basis. Customized downloads, downloads of specific taxonomic groups and searches may provide updated data prior to the monthly full download. |
| Documentation | Documentation is available from the ITIS web site; specifics about downloading are under Data Access pages. Standards and database documentation are available from http://www.itis.usda.gov/standard.html. Submittal guidelines are available at http://www.itis.usda.gov/submit.html. The Data Development History and Data Quality information document is available at http://www.itis.usda.gov/itis_primer.html . |
| Character Set Encoding* |
The Informix database ? en_US.819 (equivalent to ISO 8859-1) SQL Server 2000 ? SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS |
| Measurement units | Not applicable. |
| Dataset / Standards Dependencies | International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature standards are used for the formation of names and determination of the names. |
| Related Datasets | Some of these terms may also occur in the FAO ontology. |
| Software tools | ITIS Taxonomic Workbench |
| Audience(s) | Expert researchers, scientific users, students (K-12 and college), teachers, resource managers, ecologists, librarians, local, state and federal agencies, policy makers, used to create related metadata |
| Citation | To direct readers to the entire ITIS website, it is sufficient to give the address of the site in text: Retrieved [month, day, year], from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (http://www.itis.usda.gov). To cite data obtained from ITIS, the following citation format is offered as a suggestion: Retrieved [month, day, year], from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.usda.gov. |
| Surveyor* | Paula Ross Huddleston paula.huddleston@usda.gov |
| Date of Survey* | Paula Ross Huddleston paula.huddleston@usda.gov |
The following data elements are to be supplied by XMDR project staff/collaborators.
Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.
| Content Characterization by XMDR Staff | |
|---|---|
| Attribute | Value |
| MDR Participant Expertise | Gail Hodge |
| MDR Evaluator* | Gail Hodge |
| Inclusion Priority* | 2 |