<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apart from the fact that I can barely bring myself to care about plants ;) I suspect that the vast majority of names do not present these problems. Why do we let edge cases determine what we do?<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Rod</div><div><br><div><div>On 14 Mar 2012, at 19:10, Dmitry Mozzherin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>To add to Gregor's post<br><br>scientificNameAuthorship common usage assumes that a name is a linear<br>construct which is true for many cases. However in general scientific<br>name is a tree, and it is most obvious with names of hybrids. So when<br>people try to apply solutions like splitting name to canonical form<br>and authorship, it won't work for everybody and everything<br><br>Dima<br><br>On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Gregor Hagedorn <<a href="mailto:g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com">g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">- When providers had a text blob for the name, separate from the text blob<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">for the authorship, they could concatenate the two for presentation in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">scientificName, and also provide the authorship bit in<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">scientificNameAuthorship, and the consumers could easily strip the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">authorship from scientificName to produce the functional equivalent of a<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">canonical name.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this does not work for autonyms in botany, i.e. the infraspecific taxa where<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the infraspecific epithet and the specific epithet are the same. Here the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">author is before the infraspecific epithet. Inconvenient, but prevents the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">simplest solution.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">tdwg-content mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org">tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content">http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>tdwg-content mailing list<br><a href="mailto:tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org">tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org</a><br>http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">---------------------------------------------------------<br>Roderic Page<br>Professor of Taxonomy<br>Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine<br>College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences<br>Graham Kerr Building<br>University of Glasgow<br>Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk">r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk</a><br>Tel: +44 141 330 4778<br>Fax: +44 141 330 2792</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Skype: rdmpage<br>AIM: <a href="mailto:rodpage1962@aim.com">rodpage1962@aim.com</a><br>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1112517192">http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1112517192</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/rdmpage">http://twitter.com/rdmpage</a><br>Blog: <a href="http://iphylo.blogspot.com">http://iphylo.blogspot.com</a><br>Home page: <a href="http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html">http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html</a></div></span></span>
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