Figure 9.

Construction of taxon hypotheses connected to the taxonomic backbone via taxon names: (a). Names of the species hypotheses are connected to the taxonomic backbone (see Figure 8). Every TH is pieced together from lower-level datasets of THs. A genus-level TH is constructed from SHs that carry this particular genus name. An order -level TH is constructed from all genus-level THs that according to the classification belong to this order. The same technique is used at higher levels. Every TH has a unique persistent identifier (PID). More classification levels can be added to the communication system if needed; (b). SHs are identified at the order level. The species- and genus-level placement in the classification are unknown, and the SHs are connected to the order-level TH.