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Update Taxapad Ichneumonoidea metadata #657

Open mdoering opened 4 months ago

mdoering commented 4 months ago

The existing metadata for the unfortunately dead Taxapad Ichneumonoidea project is rather little: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/dataset/1068

If you read the archived home page there is much more information, especially about 2 additional authors (Horstmann & Achterberg) which should probably be credited as authors.

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title: World Ichneumonoidea creators:

description: The Ichneumonoidea is one of the largest superfamilies of the apocritan wasps and is distributed world wide. Most of its members are parasitic on other insects, therefore they are important biocontrol agents of many agricultural pests. Thus the study of this group is of great scientific and economic significance.

The effort to organize the information of Ichneumonidae started with Dalla Torre's catalogue of the world Ichneumonidae (1901/1902) and continued on by Townes series of catalogues (1965-1987), and finally ended with the world catalogue in 1997. Even without Braconidae, the listing of names took 1,558 pages. Shenefelts catalogue (1969-1975) was an epic work that dealt with the Braconidae which added 1,262 more pages. It was obvious that the printed medium was not an appropriate vehicle to present the information of such a large superfamily. The Taxapad (2012) data management program using Delphi (Pascal) programming language was an attempt to organize this mass of information into a digital database. The taxonomic, biological, morphological and distribution information of the superfamily Ichneumonoidea gleaned from 33,076 references were organized based on scientific names and information type.

Yu has verified most of the Ichneumonoidea names himself, as he has seen most of the 33,076 references that provide all the information from which the database is created. Additionally, Dr. Kees van Achterberg (Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden) and Dr. Klaus Horstmann (Biocentrum, Würzburg) have actively checked the taxonomic validity of many of the names.

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mdoering commented 4 months ago

https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_529955

yroskov commented 4 months ago

The metadata in the CoL have been approved by Dicky Yu at the time of entry in the CoL and should not be changed until we receive a new dataset for Ichneumonoidea via TaxonWorks.

mdoering commented 4 months ago

can you ask him? He seems to have left out key authors which are dead now

mdoering commented 4 months ago

also there was no source field in the old metadata, so it could not have been added then

yroskov commented 4 months ago

As far as I know, Dicky Yu is out of business. New successors will continue the checklist. As soon as a new version becomes available for CoL, we will receive new metadata for sure.