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

Dmitry Mozzherin dmozzherin at eol.org
Fri Nov 19 14:36:17 CET 2010


I am with Markus!

Dima

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, "Markus Döring (GBIF)"
<mdoering at gbif.org>wrote:

> 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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