{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://publicschema.org/IdentifiedAnimalUnit.schema.json",
  "title": "IdentifiedAnimalUnit",
  "description": "An animal or a group of animals identified as one unit. Records about residence, responsibility or other facts can refer to either kind, because individual and group identification are alternative ways to identify animals.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The full display name of the record. Depending on the concept, this is a person's or group's name, or the title of a program, instrument, scoring rule, or software product."
    },
    "biological_taxon": {
      "$ref": "https://publicschema.org/CodedValue.schema.json",
      "description": "The taxon to which this organism, group, breed, variety or sample belongs, as a code or scientific name from an identified taxonomy such as Catalogue of Life or the taxonomy of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. No single taxonomy is required."
    },
    "identifiers": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "oneOf": [
          {
            "$ref": "https://publicschema.org/Identifier.schema.json"
          },
          {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "URI or identifier reference"
          }
        ],
        "description": "Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document."
      }
    }
  }
}