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

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at nescent.org
Sat Nov 20 19:34:01 CET 2010


On Nov 19, 2010, at 6:11 PM, <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> <Tony.Rees at csiro.au>  
wrote:

>  dwc:scientificName=Philander opossum Linnaeus, 1758
>  dwc:scientificNameAuthorship=Linnaeus, 1758


If we have the latter, I don't understand why the author and year  
needs to be in the former, too, frankly. Doesn't this just complicate  
our lives unnecessarily?

	-hilmar
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