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ACEF#7 refers to external species #3

Closed mdoering closed 6 years ago

mdoering commented 6 years ago

The ACEF file #7 is for common names as I understand: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/database/id/7

The ACEF file refers to AcceptedSpeciesID which are not present in the file. That won't work, export needs to include those too

mdoering commented 6 years ago

@ayco-at-naturalis can we handle this at all? There is definitely no way the importer can link across different datasets

ayco-at-naturalis commented 6 years ago

Interestingly, this happens more often than just with species2000 common naes dataset. E.g. "aphid wasp" in ITIS Regional (17) points to a species in ITIS Bees (67) - although ITIS Bees itself also contains this common name. So the question is: do we allow cross-dataset links for all common names or just for dataset 7? For now I will assume the latter, and cross-dataset links for common names outside datase 7 will just be bounced by the import program.

mdoering commented 6 years ago

The CoL prod site shows ITIS as the source: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/species/id/e935d1a5b98acd3f1a80b5c2cdfae242/common/efe72c987f369543817f5424aa24519e

I am not sure about the purpose of the sp2000 common names dataset. Seems it is to add vernaculars for taxa from other GSDs: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/database/id/7

In such case we should include all scientific names too, even if they are duplicates to some GSDs. We should ask Yuri and @dimus

ayco-at-naturalis commented 6 years ago

special handling for dataset 7 now

gdower commented 5 years ago

@ayco-at-naturalis, @mdoering: Just FYI, @yroskov wants to recombine ITIS Bees into ITIS Global, and we want to eliminate the ACEF#7 dataset, because it has dwindled down to only 18 common names. I plan on recombining ITIS Bees and ITIS Global in our next ITIS update.

mdoering commented 5 years ago

@gdower we should really only have a single ITIS dataset with various sectors which Tom Orrell promised to provide as ColDP later in the year. They already do a basic DwC-A, but it's missing essential information like common names and scrutinizer for the CoL. I am in touch with their programmer and Tom was keen to get ITIS updated in the CoL this year so I am confident this will happen. We should not invest much time in additional export work.

mdoering commented 5 years ago

thanks for removing number 7!