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A script for matching against multiple taxonomic sources
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Extend FileMatcher to set id and acceptedName (acceptedNameUsage) columns in the config #1

Open gaurav opened 10 years ago

gaurav commented 10 years ago

That would be sweet.

gaurav commented 9 years ago

Bear in mind that -- according to the spec at http://darwincore.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/terms/index.htm#acceptedNameUsageID -- this may be a globally unique ID. We could provide acceptedNameUsageID, and then look up acceptedName by taxonID if available in the same database. We definitely should not do this across multiple databases since we can't tell if http://darwincore.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/terms/index.htm#taxonID is globally unique or not.

tucotuco commented 9 years ago

This particular issue is not a priority for VertNet, as we have no NameUsageIDs in use anywhere in the network.

gaurav commented 9 years ago

Do you need accepted names at all? Or should BT just focus on matching names to checklists for now?

tucotuco commented 9 years ago

Well, what we expect back, given a submitted name, is an accepted name, no?

gaurav commented 9 years ago

Right now, we return the queried name, scientificName and the "acceptedName" (which I should really replace with http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/dwc:acceptedNameUsage). However, if it's a checklist like ITIS, which uses acceptedNameUsageIDs instead of acceptedNameUsage, we can't figure out the accepted name. Is that okay for now?

tucotuco commented 9 years ago

It is OK for now, but without name resolution to a name, ITIS will be of less utility.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Gaurav Vaidya notifications@github.com wrote:

Right now, we return the queried name, scientificName and the "acceptedName" (which I should really replace with http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/dwc:acceptedNameUsage). However, if it's a checklist like ITIS, which uses acceptedNameUsageIDs instead of acceptedNameUsage, we can't figure out the accepted name. Is that okay for now?

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