This is in response to David&#39;s example here; <meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/wiki/Nom5ExampleMytilusedulis" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 204); ">http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/wiki/Nom5ExampleMytilusedulis</a></span><div>
<br></div><div>It demonstrates a number of issues, the main one being it is not clear what the intent of the GBIF submitter was.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758  &lt;= Appears to be the correct name</div>
<div><meta charset="utf-8">Mytilus edulis Linné 1758       &lt;= Appears to be a lexical variant of the correct name</div><meta charset="utf-8">
<div>Mytilus edulis d&#39; Orbigny        &lt;= Is this an error, a different description or a different species?</div><div>Mytilus edulis Pennant           &lt;= Is this an error, a different description or a different species?</div>

<div>Mytilus edulis                        &lt;= Is this an ommission, an error, a different description or a different species?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The intent of the GBIF contributor is in some cases not clear from the list above.</div>

<div><br></div><div>It is unclear what species they actually mean, and it is unclear if intend on entailing a specific classification or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Was it clear that they thought <i>Mytilus edulis</i> Linnaeus 1758 = <i>Mytilus edulis</i> Linné 1758 or not?</div>
<meta charset="utf-8"><meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div><div>How do you determine their intent from the simple name string?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think the intent be clearer if the submitter included a species concept URI with their submission.</div><div><br></div><div>A URI that showed that a species has multiple often dynamic classifications, some of which are linkable via semantic web URI&#39;s.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_mussel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_mussel</a>) =&gt; <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blue_mussel" target="_blank">http://dbpedia.org/resource/Blue_mussel</a></div>

<div>Kingdom Animalia</div><div>Phylum Mollusca</div><div>Class Bivalvia</div><div>Subclass Heterodonta</div><div>Order Mytiloida</div><div>Family Mytilidae</div><div>Subfamily Mytilinae</div><div>Genus Mytilus</div><div>

Species Mytilus edulis</div><div><br></div><div>ITIS (79454)</div><div>Kingdom Animalia</div><div>Phylum Mollusca</div><div>Class Bivalvia </div><div>Subclass Pteriomorphia</div><div>Order Mytiloida</div><div>Family Mytilidae</div>

<div>Genus Mytilus</div><div>Species Mytilus edulis</div><div><br></div><div>WORMS (140480)</div><div>Biota</div><div>Kingdom Animalia</div><div>Phylum Mollusca</div><div>Class Bivalvia</div><div>Subclass Pteriomorphia</div>

<div>Order Mytiloida</div><div>Family Mytilidae</div><div>Genus Mytilus</div><div>Species Mytilus edulis</div><div><br></div><div>CoL (6979242)</div><div>Kingdom Animalia</div><div>Phylum Mollusca</div><div>Class Bivalvia</div>

<div>Order Mytiloida</div><div>Family Mytilidae</div><div>Genus Mytilus</div><div>Species Mytilus edulis</div><div><br></div><div>NCBI (6550) =&gt; &quot;<a href="http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/6550" target="_blank">http://purl.uniprot.org/taxonomy/6550</a>&quot;/</div>

<div>cellular organisms</div><div>Eukaryota</div><div>Fungi/Metazoa group</div><div>Metazoa</div><div>Eumetazoa</div><div>Bilateria</div><div>Coelomata</div><div>Protostomia</div><div>Mollusca</div><div>Bivalvia</div><div>

Pteriomorphia</div><div>Mytiloida</div><div>Mytiloidea</div><div>Mytilidae</div><div>Mytilinae</div><div>Mytilus</div><div>Mytilus edulis</div><div><br></div><div>EUNIS</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Kingdom
	        			
	        			
	          				
		            			Animalia</div><div>	          					
	        				
	        			
					
				
					
						
	          				Phylum
	        			
	        			
	          				
		            			MOLLUSCA</div><div>Class
	        			
	        			
	          				
		            			Bivalvia </div><div>Order
	        			
	        			
	          				
		            			Anisomyaria </div><div>Family
	        			
	        			
	          				
		            			Mytilidae </div><div>Genus
	        		
	        		
	          			
	            			Mytilus</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Mytilus edulis Linné, 1758</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
		                <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The example below is not the same species as above but it shows how the intent might be made clearer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Urosalpinx cinerea (Say 1822) =&gt; &quot;by this I mean the same species concept as se:Zom2X&quot; =&gt; <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.html" target="_blank">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.html</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>* This would be better if the concept description had more data like photo&#39;s, type specimens etc, but it does link to them and DNA barcodes.</div><div>  The next version will also link to GBIF =&gt; <a href="http://data.gbif.org/species/13750666/">http://data.gbif.org/species/13750666/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>HTML  <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.html" target="_blank">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.html</a></div><div>RDF    <a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.rdf" target="_blank">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.rdf</a></div>
<div><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.rdf" target="_blank"></a>TXNburner* (<a href="http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FZom2X%23Species" target="_blank">http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2FZom2X%23Species</a>)</div>

<div>Sindice      <a href="http://sig.ma/search?pid=7a8281129fa5ae55af919c7b90e97544" target="_blank">http://sig.ma/search?pid=7a8281129fa5ae55af919c7b90e97544</a></div><br>* If this did not go through your email correctly you can get to it from the  <meta charset="utf-8"><a href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.html" target="_blank">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/Zom2X.html</a> or <a href="http://bit.ly/hyTnXf">http://bit.ly/hyTnXf</a><br>
<br></div><div>These are not perfect but they already make it more clear what data sets relate to the same species and what data sets relate to different species.</div><div>By linking to one of these, you are accepting that a species can have multiple classifications and there can be multiple names for the your intended concept.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Respectfully,</div><div><br></div><div>- Pete</div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>
Pete DeVries<br>Department of Entomology<br>University of Wisconsin - Madison<br>445 Russell Laboratories<br>1630 Linden Drive<br>Madison, WI 53706<br><a href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/" target="_blank">TaxonConcept Knowledge Base</a> / <a href="http://lod.geospecies.org/" target="_blank">GeoSpecies Knowledge Base</a><br>

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