[tdwg-content] proposed term: dwc:verbatimScientificName

[David Remsen (GBIF)]

The GBIF web parser service is a good step in that direction.

http://tools.gbif.org/nameparser/

Select the test names and review the extended output.

David
On Dec 9, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Bob Morris wrote:

>> ...
>
>> Obviously, it would be nice if algorithms did exist which could  
>> convert
>> a text string into a scientific name, but this still lies in the  
>> future.
>
> For those of us attempting to populate databases with information
> extracted from published literature, the future is now. It seems to me
> that normalizing the extraction to some standardized form \before/
> putting it in the database is more robust than forcing the parsing to
> be done afterwards.  So we need  rules for those forms, and an
> unambiguous way in our metadata to cite which rules have been
> followed.  In a previous post my p.s. also whined about a similar need
> for born-digital taxonomic treatments.
>
> Bob
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