[tdwg-content] proposed term: dwc:verbatimScientificName

[Richard Pyle]

Right....I'll amend my previous recommendation:

When a source database maintains separate fields corresponding to
scientificName and scientificNameAuthorship, they should be concatenated
(with a single space between them) in most cases, or formatted appropriately
for botanical autonyms, to form the required verbatimScientificName

Rich

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> bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Gregor Hagedorn
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> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] proposed term: dwc:verbatimScientificName
> 
> I am missing a canonical name including authorship. Rebuilding the
canonical
> name from name without authorship and authorship requires parsing into
> the name, determining whether the name is an autonym, and if so,
> rebuilding. Assuming not separate autonym status is transmitted, this
means
> parsing EVERY name before being able to output a name with authors.
> 
> scientificName: Lobelia spicata var. spicata
> scientificNameAuthorship: Lam.
> -> Lobelia spicata Lam. var. spicata
> 
> Gregor
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