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transcription errors in Mammal Species of the World #24

Open jhpoelen opened 1 year ago

jhpoelen commented 1 year ago

examples of transcription errors in Mammal Species of the World -

https://github.com/jhpoelen/msw-plazi/blob/main/annotations.csv

  1. OCR transcription error - error by machine - "Barbastello leucomelas" should be "Barbastella leucomelas" according to @kephelps Kendra 2022-12-14
  2. human transcription error - a human appears to have made a typo in citation "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 3:24" should be "Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 3:24" according to @qgroom Quentin on 2022-12-14
jhpoelen commented 1 year ago

Note that 2. was introduced in MSW1 decades ago, and has since propagated across all sorts of information system, published works etc.

see e.g., https://github.com/jhpoelen/msw-plazi/issues/1

jhpoelen commented 1 year ago

Note related issue to 2. at https://github.com/WDscholia/scholia/issues/2198#issuecomment-1352664999

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