Re: [tdwg-content] [ExternalEmail] Re: [tdwg-tag] Inclusion of authorship in DwC scientificName: good or bad?

On Nov 19, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Tony.Rees@csiro.au Tony.Rees@csiro.au wrote:

dwc:scientificName=Philander opossum Linnaeus, 1758 dwc:scientificNameAuthorship=Linnaeus, 1758

If we have the latter, I don't understand why the author and year needs to be in the former, too, frankly. Doesn't this just complicate our lives unnecessarily?

-hilmar