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UI for checklistbank.org
https://www.checklistbank.org/
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Flag spelling mistakes? #942

Open sharifX opened 3 years ago

sharifX commented 3 years ago

Often data from the field contains typos and spelling mistakes. For example, Vicia fava instead of Vicia faba ("Fava Bean" shows up as a vernacular name in the check list).

It would be nice if this can be flagged somehow during a name-matching step instead of matching type "none".

mdoering commented 3 years ago

we plan to offer this in a second step/service, which also makes use of the classification to disambiguate various potential matches. Similar to the GBIF species matching. Only with a classification it makes sense to offer generic fuzzy matching, otherwise the false positives are just too many.

Hopefully by the end of the year this is in place...