[tdwg-content] proposed term: dwc:verbatimScientificName

[Chuck Miller]

Bob,
Funny.  It starts to sound like the "Levels" that were defined in that
94 plant names publication.  They were wrangling back then with how to
format the different ways the names could occur.  We have some real
tension going on between having a minimal set of terms while enabling a
maximal variety of use cases.  I think something has to give somewhere.
The use cases are not going away.  So, maybe we need to accept a longer
set of terms.  One of them might be a "rule used" element as you
suggest.  But, that would mean the creation of the rules, definition of
controlled vocabulary and then implementation into DwC somehow.  Tall
order but it may be something lacking in DwC that is causing all these
late night emails to fly back and forth seemingly endlessly.

Chuck


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[mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of David Remsen
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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] proposed term: dwc:verbatimScientificName

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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