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

[John van Breda]

Although I agree, I wonder if there is a need for a verbatim formatted term
possibility somewhere? If a name is published but is incorrect, we need to
be able to refer back to the original name exactly as it was published. But
it may not be possible to correctly atomise it.

John

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[mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of "Markus Döring
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Sent: 19 November 2010 12:00
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Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] [tdwg-tag] Inclusion of authorship in DwC
scientificName: good or bad?

Although useful to some degree there should be NO formatting tags inside any
of the name terms.
Formatting can currently only be done via the atomised bits or parsing.

Markus


On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:37, Jonathan Giddy wrote:

> On 19/11/10 11:15, John van Breda wrote:
>> I'm coming in a bit late on this conversation so I hope I am not
repeating
>> what has already been said, but botanical names can also have authorship
at
>> both specific and infraspecific levels, e.g.
>> Centaurea apiculata Ledeb. ssp. adpressa (Ledeb.) Dostál
>> 
>> And to make it even more complex, you can have subspecies variants, so 2
>> infraspecific levels, e.g.
>> Centaurea affinis Friv. ssp. affinis var. Affinis
>> 
>> Atomising this properly could be quite complex but necessary to be able
to
>> present the name as it should be written with italics in the correct
place.
>> E.g. in the example above, the author string and rank strings are not
>> normally italiced, but the rest of the name is. Unless we can include
this
>> formatting information in dwc:scientificName?
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org
>> [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of "Markus Döring
>> (GBIF)"
>> 
>> 
>> Is there really anything we are missing?
>> 
>> 
> I'd like to back this "requirement" up. It would be useful to record 
> which name parts should be emphasised (italicized), so that a human 
> editor or smart software can apply the appropriate Code, and less-smart 
> software such as browser Javascript can display the name correctly 
> formatted.
> 
> Jon.
> 
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