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Guidelines on how to create a new term
Using the Semantic Wiki each entity is described by it's own Wiki Page. Properties and attributes for the entity is added as annotations to this page. Each vocabulary (of terms) and each individual term will thus be described by separate Wiki Pages. Relations between entities are created as a Typed Link. Attributes are similar to Typed Links and used to annotate the entity/Wiki Page with a value. Types Links are created by adding a (semantic) Property separated by two colon inside the wiki-link syntax, eg: [[Property::page-you-link-to]]. Attributes are created simply by providing a value instead of the Page, eg: [[Property::value]].
New terms should be created as part of one of the vocabulary (of terms). Each vocabulary of terms would be managed by an expert group (often a TDWG task group). Permissions to add new terms can be restricted to members of the expert group. If no suitable existing vocabulary of terms is available, then a new vocabulary can be proposed and created. Remember that new vocabularies should be managed by an expert group, so the first step could be to mobilize members for such a task group.
The first step is to add a link to a page for the new term to the respective vocabulary page.
