Package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.description

Provides classes: to describe specimens, observations or taxa, to associate other factual informations to specimens, observations or taxa (including distribution), to supply additional information about taxon names and to support identification by means of keys. Related documentation
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Interface Summary
IIdentificationKey A common interface for all identification keys.
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Class Summary
AbsenceTerm This class represents terms describing different types of absence (like "extinct" or just "absent") of a taxon in a particular area.
CategoricalData This class represents information pieces expressed in categorical type of data (in opposition to quantitative data on one side and to literal data on the other side).
CommonTaxonName This class represents common or vernacular names for taxa.
DescriptionBase<S extends IIdentifiableEntityCacheStrategy> The upmost (abstract) class for a description as a whole (with possibly several elementary information data) for a specimen, a taxon or even a taxon name.
DescriptionElementBase The upmost (abstract) class for a piece of information) about a specimen, a taxon or even a taxon name.
Distribution This class represents elementary distribution data for a taxon.
Feature The class for individual properties (also designed as character, type or category) of observed phenomena able to be described or measured.
FeatureNode The class for tree nodes within a feature tree structure.
FeatureTree The class to arrange features (characters) in a tree structure.
IndividualsAssociation This class represents associations between the described specimen or observation and a second one (for instance a host).
KeyStatement This class represents a statement or a question within a (polytomous) key.
MeasurementUnit This class represents measurement units such as "centimeter" or "degree Celsius".
MediaKey The class representing single-access fixed dichotomous or polytomous authored decision keys (as opposed to multiple-access keys) used to identify specimens or observations (this means to assign taxa to).
Modifier This class represents possible modulations for the validity of information pieces (DescriptionElementBase description elements).
MultiAccessKey The class representing multi-access dynamic keys used to identify specimens or observations (this means to assign taxa to).
NaturalLanguageTerm  
PolytomousKey This class represents a fixed single-access key (dichotomous or polytomous) used to identify (assign a taxon to) a specimen or observation.
PolytomousKeyNode This class represents a node within a polytomous key structure.
PresenceAbsenceTermBase<T extends PresenceAbsenceTermBase<?>> This (abstract) class represents terms describing the absence (like "extinct") or the presence (like "cultivated") of a taxon in a named area.
PresenceTerm This class represents terms describing different types of presence (like "native" or "introduced") of a taxon in a particular area.
QuantitativeData This class represents information pieces expressed in numerical data (in opposition to categorical data on one side and to literal data on the other side).
Scope The class representing restrictions for the validity of taxon descriptions.
Sex The class representing the restriction concerning the sex for the applicability of taxon descriptions.
SpecimenDescription This class represents descriptions for specimens or observations.
Stage The class representing the restriction concerning the life stage for the applicability of taxon descriptions.
State This class represents terms describing different states (like "oval" or "triangular") for features that can be described with categorical values (like for instance shapes).
StateData This class represents the assignment of values (state terms) to features corresponding to categorical data.
StatisticalMeasure /** This class represents terms describing different statistical measures (such as "sample size", "minimum" or "average") for features that can be described with numerical values (like for instance weights or temperature).
StatisticalMeasurementValue This class represents the assignment of numerical values to features corresponding to quantitative data.
TaxonDescription This class represents descriptions that delimit or circumscribe a real taxon.
TaxonInteraction This class represents interactions between the described taxon and a second one (for instance a parasite, a prey or a hybrid parent).
TaxonNameDescription This class represents all piece of information (not ruled by a nomenclatural code) concerning a taxon name like for instance the content of its first publication (protolog) or a picture of this publication.
TextData This class represents information pieces expressed in one or several natural languages (for the feature "medical use" for instance).
TextFormat The class representing kinds of formats used for structuring text (like "xml schema namespace", "rdf", or any other format).
WorkingSet The working set class allows the demarcation of a set of descriptions associated with representations and a set of features and their dependencies.
 

Enum Summary
DescriptiveSystemRole The role of the descriptive system of type FeatureTree.
A descriptive systeme may play different roles within a working set.
 

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