From the homepage:
The Genomic Standards Consortium ( GSC) is an open-membership working body formed in September 2005. The goal of this International community is to promote mechanisms that standardize the description of genomes and the exchange and integration of genomic data.
This was cited in Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria….
If you are interested in the “exchange and integration of genomic data,” you will find a number of projects of interest to you.
Naming issues are everywhere but they get more attention, at least for the moment, in science and related areas.
I would not push topic maps syntax but I would suggest that capturing what a reasonable person thinks when identifying a subject, their inner checklist of properties as it were, will assist others in comparing their internal checklist of properties.
If that “inner” list isn’t written down, there is nothing on which to make a comparison.