taxonomic inventory process trap or sample taxonomic inventory process Taxonomic Inventory Metadata Workshop A taxonomic inventory process that is typically restricted in geospatial extent that involves either the physical extraction of some evidence of the presence of the taxa of interest, such as a whole organisms, scat, fur, other material samples or information artifacts such as photographs or sound recordings Can be highly targeted and or baited (pheromone trap), or general (pitfall). Trap events can either be "triggered" but of long-term deployment, or rigorously temporally specified (left out overnight). an inventory of insects in a area using pheremone traps an inventory of the large mammals of a park based on camera traps inventories based on trawl samples trap or sample inventory ready for release